MH and LED....OMG!

[rrasco]

Its is quite a good head scratcher though. I have no experience with LEDs except for moonlight. I do know when I was running my 3 1watt led bulbs on the 180g at night the corals would stay active a lot longer than any other moonlighting I had used in the passed. I have to say when they 1st came on to the seen I had my reservations, but Ive seen several amazing aquariums since then that are running all Leds. The same can be said about MH and T5.

I'm actually about to work on my programming to keep my blues on at 1/255 of max, so about 0.39%. I was worried it would produce too much light overnight and the corals would never get a 'rest'. I know you can have too much light overnight, but what about just a little usable light at night? What would the corals do? Stay open or close? I may just make a smaller moonlight strip instead though.

[Big_Pun]

yea i notice they do stay open with "moonlight" basically blue led's or in my case white and blue

[Big_Pun]

bottom line looks like you may have to replace your leds pucks sooner than expected, guess we will see when people have 5-6 year old sols

[350gt]

Lunar cycle on the ai sols has them dim some nights, bright on some, and off on a few.....

[Big_Pun]

look aquadome! still looks a lil disco-ee
http://reefbuilders.com/2012/12/03/build-my-led-video/

[Big_Pun]

that fixture didnt look very big for 10 bulb, so reflectors may not be individual also how old are bulbs in that fixture. lots of unknowns

[350gt]

Amazing, at 1/3 of the wattage...


Those LEDs look promising! Lol

[350gt]

[350gt]

All that par, 1/3 of wattage, no heat....



I choose led! I will deal with the disco effect, there are ways to minimize that....

[Big_Pun]

All that par, 1/3 of wattage, no heat....



I choose led! I will deal with the disco effect, there are ways to minimize that....

lol fixed by t5 ......