The Light has arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!

LtPiper

LtPiper

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Well I'm home sick today and imagine my surprise the LED came in today!!!!!!!!!!

Needless to say I crawled out of bed and set it up at once.

WOW what a differance.

Here's the tank with the 4 x 65 PC light







Here's the light!!!!!





Here's the light on the tank!!!!!!!









It's been on the tank for an hour now and the temp has already gone down 3 degrees!!!!!!
 
Yes with surface movement it does shimmer. I'll try and shoot some video and upload it.

The cloud cover option is also neat to see.

The temp has also dropped even more. I'd have to say about 6-7 degrees now.
 
Holy cow...that's lower than flourescents, lol.

Do the bulbs come in only one K, or are these all actinics, or some 14K, or what?
 
They come in 13K and 20K and I can adjust the blue/white ratio as well. Mine is the 20K and it's set to full on blue and white. You can get all the info here: Solaris. I have video uploading now and will post it when it finishes.

The 48" set me back by 2300.00 BUT!!!!! an equivalent MH/PC setup would cost in just bulbs alone 3000.00 in bulbs over the life of this light!!!!! And the life of the bulbs are 11.5 years running 24/7 365. Since these only run 1/2 the day they could last up to 23 in theory which would double the bulb savings. I'll find out in 11 years LOL.
 
Wow it looks like a 20K halide over the tank. Get those glass covers off that tank and reshoot the video. I know you will get far more light in that tank without a cover plus the glimmer lines should be amplified by folds. Plus you have to show us how the cloud cover freature works.
 
I am happy for ya man, thats a great purchase! I will be able to run ductwork from my canopy, through out the house to heat it during the winter! hehe
 
$2300 for those, and the MH light for a 48 is almost $1000, sounds to me that your lights are very much worth it, especially having them during the summer months with a lower heat output. Thats one complaint I have with MH lights, my water temp has gotten as high as 85 degrees! I'm really excited for you. Enjoy!
 
I'm a bit reluctant to take the tops off as I don't want my clowns I'm putting in there to go carpet surfing.

Showing the cloud cover feature will be kinda hard since it's a random changes daily thing. It's a preprogramed reduction of the lights to what ever level you have it preset to. I have it at the default which is 50% and 5 times a day. I'll try and catch it but don't know how much luck I'll have.

If anybody would like to come by and have a first hand look PM me and we can set up a time. When should I put down for Ron?
 
Man thats awesome! I will def look into these lights for my in wall I am starting within the year. I want it to be a "drool over" tank and these lights will sure help.
 
Screw all this video nonsense, I want to see this thing in person.

BTW, I have run my tank with an open top for three years now and the only thing I have lost from jumping is a firefish. Most fish are not jumpers. It lets more light through, you don't have to do that PITA cleaning the glass top every day, and it promotes better gas exchange. I LOVE my open top and I'll never go back.
 
Okay here's what I've found out so far.

With the 4x65 PC's I couldn't get my tank below 82 with most days the temp hovering around 84-85. Ambient room temp is 78. With the LED's the temp dropped down to 79 and I had to start adjusting the heater up. I've got it back to 80 in the tank now and was a 8 degree change from the PC's. The tank is still warming up at night to around 81 with the PC running at night over the sump/refugium.

The "stray light" that flooded the room is gone. I have to turn a lamp on at night again to see getting up and down the stairs. The light is all focused on the tank and the contents in it.

Three colonies of zoas that I have have not changed much at all. They are all the way on the bottom/near bottom of the tank and aren't doing the strech for light thing at all. They are fully open and appear to be happy.

The night lighting scape must be at full moon right now cause it's rather bright. Looks like oh about 1 65w actinic light on at night. I may have to adjust that down a bit.
 
I've always been "topless" myself and it has been VERY rare to loose a fish. Still can't bare my bottom though...........wait what were we talking here?*&&%$%#
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8200495#post8200495 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishmon
I've always been "topless" myself and it has been VERY rare to loose a fish. Still can't bare my bottom though...........wait what were we talking here?*&&%$%#
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Sounds like you're talking about me since I'm topless AND bare bottomed :D

I'd ditch the glass for all the reasons Ron and Jason gave plus it contributed to the heat problems you were having. If you're worried about jumpers cover the tank with egg crate.
 
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