T-5 and glitter lines

[Shadowramy]

If I get a T-5 setup and add a row of white LED (like moon lights but white), wont that give me glitter lines like having MH?

 

[VaderWS6]

You'll get glitter lines, but not intense lines like metal halide. It should give you the aesthetic effect you're looking for though.

 

[Entropy]

Glitter lines come from single point bulbs. If you got a really really powerful LED it might give you glitter lines, but a bank of LED's IMO would spread the light too evenly.

 

[VaderWS6]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6585336#post6585336 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Entropy
Glitter lines come from single point bulbs. If you got a really really powerful LED it might give you glitter lines, but a bank of LED's IMO would spread the light too evenly.

Just a 1 watt LED bulb will give some great glitter lines.

 

[Horace]

This has been tried and the lines that even the most powerful LEDs create are subtle at best. LEDs just are not anywhere near bright enough yet. If you have a low light setup, perhaps it will work better, but if you have good T5s in there, they will drown out pretty much any LED completely

 

[Entropy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6585454#post6585454 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by VaderWS6
Just a 1 watt LED bulb will give some great glitter lines.

Maybe in a pitch black tank. I have a 1 watt led over my tank for a moon light and there is very little (if any) noticable glitter lines with all the lights out. Against a rack of VHOs or T5's there would be zero IMO, because the brighter light would wash away any light from the LED.

 

[Ti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6585454#post6585454 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by VaderWS6
Just a 1 watt LED bulb will give some great glitter lines.

It will when the T5 is off.