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stoneriff

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Hello folks;
I've been out of the loop for a while. I've moved to Las Vegas from Manhattan to open my own business. I finally got it off the ground. Hooray!
Now I want to get my tank started again. I have a 2' high 120 reef ready aquarium, and I need some solid advice on LED fixtures for my reef tank. As I mentioned earlier, I live in Vegas now, so MH's are out. To much heat! I plan on having clams and LPS (Acans, Duncans, etc). No SPS at all. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
 

NYreefNoob

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3 units would give you the coverage you need, i have 3 on my 3x2x22" with no shadowing at all, really get around 18" coverage per unit at the 12" height above water
 

MO~IDOL

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I have seen wingoled sleek dimmable fixture in the last CTARS swap and found that they are very good. I can adjust any color tone I want and the fixture can be tilted too. In a demonstration, his par light blows away two other major brands in the market out of the water. I am building a new 180g will use all his lights from the display to the fuge if the price is right.
 
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par per wattage blows them out ? and one thing most people dont mention is the par meters dont read leds 100% there is i do believe a 20% margin in the par

May I know how you judge a light and I can answer your doubts in RB unless you want the conversation be open.

BTW, I do invite you to my demonstration in the next swap to see it for yourself.
 
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MO~IDOL

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par per wattage blows them out ? and one thing most people dont mention is the par meters dont read leds 100% there is i do believe a 20% margin in the par

Well Rick I'm a noob to LED but I had seen many difference kind of LEDs. he place his LED and other 2 LED together same high same distance and many peeps including my self see the PAR difference clearly. other white LED r kinda yellowish(kinda like 65k-80k) but his more on the bright white more like(10-12K) to my eyes.
 

jaa1456

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How do you see PAR? You can't physically see PAR with your eyes. One light might look brighter than another, but it does not mean the brighter looking light has more PAR value. That is like saying a 250 MH with a 10K bulb has more Par value than a 20K bulb because it looks brighter.
 

jaa1456

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And what are these other 2 major brands? Where the comprabile to the one you are reffering to. If course one will have more par if it is 180 watts and the other is 60 watts.
 
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I don't see any indication of a par meter being used or any numbers behind what was said. It just simply says I could see the difference. I don't get how you got I used a par meter to see the difference.

Are you mixing the two members-one is Moidol, a known SPS person while Warren is known LED addict with almost all brands of LEDs. May be, except mine. I remembered only to have fixed Warren's Solaris. Both have been in the CT swaps and MR swaps and saw my demonstration in person. I actually let other vendors to play aroudn with the lights and the meter during the demo.
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The demonstration was done with a par meter and eyeballs.
There were two colors being tested-blue vs blue, mixed white/blue vs mixed white/blue.
The comparison base is mostly on price/performance-for similar price, what do you get type comparison
At about $100 range, we tested two brand against mine.

1)First is the eyeball test.
It is mainly for the purpose of good looking. The comments are that mine is much brighter and whiter without the overly blue tone that prevail in most other brands while the poping factor maintainsl the same if not more. In fact, the same sentiments are all over the community now. In last MR swap, at least two systems requested me(not I request them) to lend them my LED PAR lights to replace their own LED PAR of other brands saying that mine is more nature looking.

2)Second PAR test.
Since most people use PAR as a standard, a PAR meter is used to measure the par numbers infront of the audience and I even let some other vendor to test it by themselves. Mine chunk out numbers as high as nearly double one of the competitor.

Part of the specs here:

mine: 15x1W price ~$100
others:
a) 7 x 2W price ~$100
b) 12x1W ~$100

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That's why I asked you guys to come to my demonstration and instead of picking on the words or commenting on someone else 's personal likings different from yours. It's best to comment things based on actual hands-on and first person experience.
 
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