| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
Corey Price 
Guest
Joined: August 25 2004
Location: Farmington
Status: Offline
Points: 2567
|
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote  Reply
 Posted: September 15 2008 at 2:00pm |
Very nice. So I see a couple nice things about this- no $$ controller. I'm not sure I would need all the dimming and color changing features that come on other LED systems. I like the compactness, which allows one to put more of these on a tank. Plus the power usage is great.
How about the color spectral plots? Is it similar to a 10k MH, or?
|
 |
Adam Blundell
Presidency
Joined: June 24 2002
Location: Davis County
Status: Offline
Points: 18526
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 2:04pm |
How about the color spectral plots? Is it similar to a 10k MH, or?
See if you can get CD to send us one... and I'll test it for you. 
Adam
Edited by Adam Blundell - September 15 2008 at 2:05pm
|
|
Come to a meeting, they’re fun!
|
|
Corey Price
Guest
Joined: August 25 2004
Location: Farmington
Status: Offline
Points: 2567
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 2:05pm |
Oh, and the math on the CD web site seems odd- 42 watts for this versus a 175w MH (which may be running at 200 watts) is a 5:1 ratio, but the power cost is a 26:1 ratio. What in the wide world of sports gives? $1.25 per month versus $33 per month? If that's true, then I have some great ocean front property to sell.
|
|
CoralDynamics
Guest
Joined: September 13 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 2:43pm |
 Corey Price wrote:
Oh, and the math on the CD web site seems odd- 42 watts for this versus a 175w MH (which may be running at 200 watts) is a 5:1 ratio, but the power cost is a 26:1 ratio. What in the wide world of sports gives? $1.25 per month versus $33 per month? If that's true, then I have some great ocean front property to sell.
|
I used the Calcutator on RC, and looks like I screwed it up... The Kill-O-Wat showed 198w on the 175w ballast and bulb I was using... That figure is closer to 798w I need to go fix that... THANX!!
175w pulling 198w would be 8.67/mo
I am making the changes now... sorry for the bad info. That is one of the problems of being the only one checking my figures...
|
|
CoralDynamics
Guest
Joined: September 13 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 2:59pm |
Adam Blundell wrote:
How about the color spectral plots? Is it similar to a 10k MH, or?
See if you can get CD to send us one... and I'll test it for you.
Adam |
I don't have spectral plots yet. I am looking for a spectrograph locally to borrow.
No, Tullio is NOT making these. The ones I got from Tullio were yellow/green streetlights. Here is a photo of mine next to his at MACNA.
|
|
Adam Blundell
Presidency
Joined: June 24 2002
Location: Davis County
Status: Offline
Points: 18526
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 3:01pm |
Awesome!
Thanks again for coming here to share. It is flippin' sweet to see you taking the time to answer our questions.
If you want, you could mail a bulb to Sanjay and I could get him to test it. By the way I'm now even more excited to see you next month.
Adam
|
|
Come to a meeting, they’re fun!
|
|
CoralDynamics
Guest
Joined: September 13 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 3:08pm |
Adam Blundell wrote:
Awesome!
Thanks again for coming here to share. It is flippin' sweet to see you taking the time to answer our questions.
If you want, you could mail a bulb to Sanjay and I could get him to test it. By the way I'm now even more excited to see you next month.
Adam |
I have one coming in on my next batch to send to him. I know he tested the "other" one and was not impressed with the findings (I don't they have been released yet). I did not get a chance to talk to him directly about this one at MACNA, so I hope he will look at this one for me.
The meeting next month is not a "done deal" for me yet, and I may not know right up until the last minute. I am hoping to make it though.
|
|
Corey Price
Guest
Joined: August 25 2004
Location: Farmington
Status: Offline
Points: 2567
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 11:04pm |
So any chance we might get a sample?  So really, the bulbs pay for themselves in about two years instead of five. Folks, we're seeing LED's get closer to being part of the lighting future of reef tanks.
|
|
chk4tix
Guest
Joined: April 06 2007
Location: Texas
Status: Offline
Points: 4320
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 15 2008 at 11:10pm |
|
I personally am looking forward to these, I was planing on updating my lighting system so I guess I will wait a bit and see how these pan out.
|
|
Original Crappy Reef Club Member #2
|
|
CoralDynamics
Guest
Joined: September 13 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 19 2008 at 12:55pm |
Just some Updates:
Sanjay is going to run the bulb through his series of tests for me. I should be sending it out to him in a week or two when the orders catch up a bit.
Also, I have been logging pics of the corals under the light since I set the tank back up when we got back from MACNA. The tank has been back up for 10 days, and I moved an assortment of corals in there on the day I set it up. All are doing well. But on Day 5 I moved in two acro frags and a pavona frag. I can see growth after 5 days. The pavona of course is faster than the acro's but still, I thought it was pretty cool to see growth on them all in that amount of time.
The light is 18" off the bottom of the tank, and about 14" off the top of the frag rack that is in there. The light is 2" off the water surface.
Thanks for the interest.
Edited by CoralDynamics - September 19 2008 at 12:56pm
|
|
Crazy Tarzan
Guest
Joined: September 12 2003
Location: Riverton, WY
Status: Offline
Points: 1681
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 19 2008 at 12:59pm |
|
these are awesome bulbs, please keep us updated since I would much rather buy one light for a tank than new ones yearly.
|
|
Was that in there yesterday? Casper--WY windier than ?
Down to a 20, soon to double or nothing
|
|
Adam Blundell
Presidency
Joined: June 24 2002
Location: Davis County
Status: Offline
Points: 18526
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 30 2008 at 9:37am |
CD- I'll be seeing you in 10 days!
Adam
|
|
Come to a meeting, they’re fun!
|
|
CoralDynamics
Guest
Joined: September 13 2008
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: September 30 2008 at 11:14am |
Adam Blundell wrote:
CD- I'll be seeing you in 10 days!
Adam |
Does not look like I am going to make this one  We have the grandbaby coming in to town a few days before. Sorry.
|
|
