Please elaborate. Acan lighting? Please excuse my ignorance.
LED Lighting Recommendations
- Thread starter stoneriff
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Acan Lighting is another LED company. I heard they have done quite a few upgrades to their stuff, since the first batch. I had one of the first batch 12" module and it was to much for my corals since it ran at 100%. But they are closely priced to the AI units and I know you can link all the AI units together off of their controller or even off of the Apex or Digital Aquatics controllers. Not sure if Acan can do this now, but in the past it was not an option.
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
Hey Jesse,
Acan lighting is another brand of high-end LED. they sponsor this site and have a forum in the marketplace. You are not going to find consensus on LED's. There are way too many companies, way too many price points and way too little long -term data. My suggestion is to go with a company that has a proven record of customer service as that is the primary difference between the different companies beyond the fancy bells and whistles of the various controllers that some of them come with ( which may or may not be of interest to you.) I don't use LED's as primary lighting, so I can't really offer my personal preference. One thing is clear--- you can grow anything you want under LED lighting if you choose the right fixture for your application and that includes Acros and clams--but I have yet to see a full blown SPS tank that looks right to me aesthetically. LPS and softies are a different story.
Acan lighting is another brand of high-end LED. they sponsor this site and have a forum in the marketplace. You are not going to find consensus on LED's. There are way too many companies, way too many price points and way too little long -term data. My suggestion is to go with a company that has a proven record of customer service as that is the primary difference between the different companies beyond the fancy bells and whistles of the various controllers that some of them come with ( which may or may not be of interest to you.) I don't use LED's as primary lighting, so I can't really offer my personal preference. One thing is clear--- you can grow anything you want under LED lighting if you choose the right fixture for your application and that includes Acros and clams--but I have yet to see a full blown SPS tank that looks right to me aesthetically. LPS and softies are a different story.
Thanks Randy. Much appreciated.
- Location
- poughquag, ny
< is and i have sps in sand and my clams in the sand and zoa's and lps, but i also did this with my t5 set up as well, will say my red planet has grown at a much faster clip under the leds though
I'm running 2 of the AI sol blue units and everything in there looks great, from SPS,LPS, Zoas, softies and clams. This is on a 65 gallon that is 24"s deep and the lights get to the bottom with no problem. I'm still letting everything adjust to the LEDS as I had T5's before hand.
- Location
- Far Rockaway
High end LMFAO yeah right 1w leds that are wanna be Cree XPG thay say . How can you compare 1w led to 3w crees ?..........
AlohaTropics
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- Location
- Long Island
Running 4 AquaIllumination Sol Blue on a Deep Dimension 200g. Your dimensions can honestly get away with even just 2 units at 10" up. I actually need to raise mine up a few inches to cover more spread but you can see the penetration at 27".
- Location
- patchogue long island
2 ai super blue's on my 90 plenty of light
NIGHTCRAWLER
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- Location
- centereach
stoneriff, i would look into the diy forums for l.e.d.s you can get alot of information. also call some of the l.e.d. companys direct. im sure they will give you alot more info on them.
get the pro's and con's. i been looking into l.e.d.s myself, and they aint a proven thing yet. sure they can save on electric.
get the pro's and con's. i been looking into l.e.d.s myself, and they aint a proven thing yet. sure they can save on electric.
- Location
- NY
Yo stranger.........
Really glad to hear your place is up and running. Congrats. I'm heading to Vegas at the end of the month. Shoot me a PM with your 411 and we'll hook up.
Russ
Really glad to hear your place is up and running. Congrats. I'm heading to Vegas at the end of the month. Shoot me a PM with your 411 and we'll hook up.
Russ
We setup an AI sol blue today on my cousins tank a
30 x 18 x 25 tank it's about 58g column. A single unit on the tank I feel is more than enough and it is ridiculously sleek and sexy. I have it running on the AI controller, which I need to learn to program, but overall
I think it's amazing!
I have a 180 and once $ permits am considering doing 3 units over it.
Anyone have advice to program the lights?
I'd like the blue to come on at 12 and hit 75% by 2 and the royal blue to come on at 1 and hit 75% by 2:30, then the white come on at 2:30 and hit 50% at 3.
At 9 I'd like the white to fade to 0%, by 10 the royal blue to fade to 0% and then at 11 the blues to fade to 5%
Any help via pm or here is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
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30 x 18 x 25 tank it's about 58g column. A single unit on the tank I feel is more than enough and it is ridiculously sleek and sexy. I have it running on the AI controller, which I need to learn to program, but overall
I think it's amazing!
I have a 180 and once $ permits am considering doing 3 units over it.
Anyone have advice to program the lights?
I'd like the blue to come on at 12 and hit 75% by 2 and the royal blue to come on at 1 and hit 75% by 2:30, then the white come on at 2:30 and hit 50% at 3.
At 9 I'd like the white to fade to 0%, by 10 the royal blue to fade to 0% and then at 11 the blues to fade to 5%
Any help via pm or here is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
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- Location
- NY
I'm running 3 160w Pacific Sun Black Pythons on my 210 and I love them. The software is great and I like how you can set your color temp and sunrise and sunset and moon cycle. I love them and they're really bright at just the 75% that I run them at.
Also, this may sound dumb but Wingo, how can you compare 15x1w to 12x1w and 7x2w? I know that wattage doesn't really tell you much about the overall strength of the fixture, it's more on the quality of each individual chip, but wouldn't 15watts of led obviously be stronger PAR wise in comparison to 12w and 14w of total LEDs?
Also, this may sound dumb but Wingo, how can you compare 15x1w to 12x1w and 7x2w? I know that wattage doesn't really tell you much about the overall strength of the fixture, it's more on the quality of each individual chip, but wouldn't 15watts of led obviously be stronger PAR wise in comparison to 12w and 14w of total LEDs?
- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
If materials are same, it's obvious that 15x1W should be higher in light output than the 12x1W and 7x2W(even though some webtizen have argued that 2W leds are better than 1W leds-mind you the facts are 2x1W LED is more efficient than 1x2W LED, moneywise, the latter is cheaper). The proof is in the PAR meter readings. Mine chunks bigger numbers for the same amount of money you pay.
The comparison was performance/price (consumer inclined-for the sake of value) and not performance/watt (scientific inclined or web debate inclined-for the sake of showing off.)
When the comments come from a consumer, in general, performance/price takes higher priority. Therefore, a product which produces less light and sold at a higher price is sad to be "bad" or even rip-off while a product which produce more light and cost less money will be considered better. If the diffference is even over 50%, people would easily make comments like "blow them out of the water", "make brand X look embrassing" and there are more.
The key to the whole comparison thing is based on SAME PRICE RANGE
while most other attributes are same.
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