Where will LED be in 2 years?

LED systems now are like the cellular phones when they first started becoming widely available. You can either wait for the systems to mature and drop in price through competition or get onboard now and reap the benefits of heat/electrical cost reduction. It is a matter of personal financial capability and goals. My put.
 
No they will add something look at cell phones. Soon even the cheap ones will have clouds and moon lights and the expensive one will add true moon phases and planetary reflections :).
 
I'm more pessimistic about LEDs. Within 2-3 years I think we'll be hearing about bulbs shifting color spectrum, just like any other bulb. By that time, however, LED fixtures should be less pricey.
 
In a few years? brighter, more efficient, more color choices and more options along with better prices... and of course tons of out of touch reefers still crying that leds are not there yet and not proven while the rest of us will have long moved on from the days of heating our homes with mh or have 48" glass tubes shipped to us in which 1/2 of the shipment was broken.
 
Garage1217 said:
In a few years? brighter, more efficient, more color choices and more options along with better prices... and of course tons of out of touch reefers still crying that leds are not there yet and not proven while the rest of us will have long moved on from the days of heating our homes with mh or have 48" glass tubes shipped to us in which 1/2 of the shipment was broken.
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LOL! x2 all the way!

I'm especially tired of hearing "LEDs aren't there yet"...

Aren't where? Aren't free? Yea, I guess that's true.

Meanwhile, the manufactured fixtures IMO are already very competetively priced against halides, while the DIY fixtures are absolutely cheaper.

Yes, it made sense to say LEDs weren't there yet when the only thing available was a $2000 Solaris that broke down after a few months. But these days, this catchphrase is outdated...
 
3 months and loving my ai's. i am finally keeping an acro alive. maybe a different variable is in play that i am unaware of, but the fact is that it's the first one that has lived more than a month
 
I agree that LEDs are not ready for Prime Time/ the average reefer. There are so great lights out there AI and Ecoxotic are great and have been proven to grow SPS very well with great color. The price needs to come down to reach the average reefer on a larger scale. I would get and AI Sol blue if I could afford it and a controller to really get the most of it. I feel that the color selection will stay in the 14-20k but people are playing around with red and pink LEDs in the mix. LEDs need to be replaceable for when the die or need to be replaced. LEDs have come a long way in the last few years. When the Solaris came out it was great and would grow SPS well but poor components caused many to fail and put PFO out of business. But it broke the ground for LEDs in reef tanks. Now they are reliable, highly controllable and put out tons of PAR. But for now I will stick to my good old MH lighting.
 
Funny people saying it prime time yet most if not all in this thread have DIY LED kits on their tank if any at all.... Like many have said this is like the early years of t5s.

I look into putting LED on my corner tank but in the end I would be using more power than t5s.... I use ton of "high end" equipment.
 
USC-fan -

You must not have been looking in the right places if you concluded that LEDs would require more power then T5s to get you the same amount of light; the most commonly used LEDs are significantly more efficient at turning electricity into light than T5s are, and this is compounded by the fact that LED optics are likewise more efficient than T5 reflectors at channeling that light down into your aquarium.
 
You have to pay to play. I think there are more complaints about price than there are about it actually working or not.

;)
 
It just to light my corner i have 2 36w t5s and 2 24w t5s. ~120w total

To get coverage over the 92 with led i would need 40+ leds to get complete coverage the correct look.
 
USC-fan said:
It just to light my corner i have 2 36w t5s and 2 24w t5s. ~120w total

To get coverage over the 92 with led i would need 40+ leds to get complete coverage the correct look.
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to cover my 65 i have 6 39 w t-5, i don't see how youre getting full deep coverage w/the lights you describe.
 
Assuming you arrived at the figure of 40 LEDs because this was accurately recommended to you based on the specific dimensions and goals you described at the time, that recommendation was most likely provided with the thought of running typical (Cree XP-series) LEDs at typical drive current (700 mA). This would amount to approximately 90 watts.
 
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