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What happened to the E5 bulbs?

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Topic: What happened to the E5 bulbs?

Posted By: 1stupidpunk
Subject: What happened to the E5 bulbs?
Date Posted: August 07 2016 at 11:28am

A while back on marinedepot they had announced Euroquatics brand E5 led retrofit bulbs. They only came in 5k and 10k but stated that they would be releasing 15k and "blue pop" in the near future. Now on marinedepot it says product discontinued ...bummer... A quick google search only gave a few hits with not much to go on.

I see other companies making led lights designed to install directly into T-5 fixtures but really only see them in the 3k-6.5k spectrums.

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Posted By: Electro4112
Date Posted: August 07 2016 at 4:01pm

Aquarium specialty carries them they had some type of disagreement with marine depot... some people asked the same question on R2R

Posted By: phys
Date Posted: August 07 2016 at 5:41pm

http://www.aquariumspecialty.com/lighting/led-lighting?manufacturer=7384

Posted By: 1stupidpunk
Date Posted: August 07 2016 at 7:56pm

Awesome! Thanks guys.

Posted By: WaitForIt...
Date Posted: August 08 2016 at 8:59am

I'm still fairly new to the hobby and havent heard about these lights before. Could you enlighten me some? are they a good fit in a T5 fixture when you only replace one or two? They sound interesting

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Posted By: 1stupidpunk
Date Posted: August 08 2016 at 4:10pm

I havent actually owned one yet to tell you 100% of how effective they are... But the idea is that they are plug and play with a T5 fixture to replace the T5 bulbs. They are supposed to be the same output as a T5 but only use half the wattage.