Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board - Overdriving lights etc

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Originally Posted by BCOrchidGuy

Okay so maybe I should have been born blonde (no offence to the blondes here). As temperature goes up (the carbon block thingy) I understood the colour went from red to orange etc etc etc.. all the way to denim and then ultra violet.. (is that okay?)
So, in theory if I went with a whitish NO tube for marine tanks and an actinic and had both over driven I'd be okay?? Or would I be better to say run a VHO actinic and a VHO 10,000k with a tar VHO ballast. The WH7 will run them if I'm not mistaken but at about 60 watts each... or did I just have to much beer at the burlesque show?

Doug

your better off to run VHO bulbs on a WH7, overdriving NO's is a game of diminishing returnes and you could see from the testing I did with that a few years ago. if you put double the power in you do not get double the light out. If you set up the WH7 right it will power VHO at full power you have to either use one WH per bulb or run them in series if they are 4 foot or under. and even if you run them ar 60ish watts, two VHO run at 60 watts has a lot more punch than a NO run at 60 watts.

Steve