Try turning on just your deep blues and slowly increase your reds till you get a "purplelish" color.

One other thing that I have noticed and was wondering if its happening to anyone else, is the feed mode. If you have not done so already and you have some vortechs, try utilizing the feed mode option on the lights. My two MP40s go into feed mode when I press the keys on the radion's, but when I come out of feed mode(via radion), the MP40w light stays a constant white and increases in flow, but I have to manually exit the feed mode on the vortech unit to go back into the green constant flow setting

That seems kind of odd. I will have to try my feed mode tomorrow and see if my mp40's react the same way.

Do you have picture of your tank with the radions? Is your 120g a 4x2? And what kind of corals do you keep?

Project Trading
 

Is anyone willing to share projects? They can be uploaded and or emailed. If anyone is interesed I could setup a dropbox account.. Thoughts??

I will post pics in the next day or so. Yes it is a 4x2x2 120g and 2 Radions are perfect for it.

I never did try the feed mode thing today. What I did notice tonight when the Radion was in night mode my pumps were both working but not pulsating. Both controllers are flashing white just like in feed mode. Are the mp's in a night mode? but I didn't think that feature was available yet. Anyone know?

The height above the tank should be between 18 - 24 in. You need one Radion for every 24 in length. So You probably need two Radion for each tank.

Maxedm Mine does the same thing. When you are using the Ecotech config software does it list your Vortech as a device?

Mine doesn't. I'd sure like to be able to control the powerhead...

Are you running yours that high, mine are sitting @ 8"s above water surface, spread is perfect without light spill.

Ok, I can see communication between the lights & pumps being a useful feature for night mode, or the lightning storm business, but feed mode? How does the livestock benefit in any way from the lights controlling the pumps when it's feeding time, or vice versa? I suppose if the lights were turned way down, they need to come back to a level where the fish can see the food, but I don't know of many folks that feed their fish at night or under other low light conditions?

Yes, everything grows perfectly.

Coordination
 

Mainly I'd like to program the Vortech for night and early morning but I just can't get the powerhead and the light talking... Any suggestions?

The lights don't do anything when in feed mode, its just a more convenient way to enter feed mode rather than reaching behind my tank to my vortech modules.

I have my Vortechs on constant flow at approximately 85% and feeding with this kinda flow is a waste of food as it scatters very quickly.

I feed with all pumps full blast. I make my fish work for it

These will be great lights when the next couple of revisions of the software comes out, right now its very basic. The light output however is intense. The only thing I worry about though is having it all concentrated in the center of the tank. They are kind of like MHs in that way although people usually will supplement those with some T5s, so that's a little to think about.

One thing (other than the software) I was disappointed about was I was assuming that since it has wireless communication that it could be controlled wirelessly, but that's not the case. Programming and settings and such need to be done plugged in.

Other than that they are beautiful lights and awesome case design.

Here is a couple of pics of mine but not the greatest quality with an IPhone. Currently in the pics they are drawing 75 watts combined with a PAR rating of 400 at the water surface approx 12" below fixtures.

"The only thing I worry about though is having it all concentrated in the center of the tank."

Have four ordered from Modular LED, three for my new 120 and saving the last for a future frag or nano tank. Hope having the three hung width-wise (instead of horizontally ) will give more balance.

One thing (other than the software) I was disappointed about was I was assuming that since it has wireless communication that it could be controlled wirelessly, but that's not the case. Programming and settings and such need to be done plugged in.

Hope Ecotech will come out with a wireless USB down the road or even possibility of a Bluetooth for iPhones etc...

Response from Ecotech
 

Just read where the guy on RC with his 12 Radions over his 500g said he will never go back to metal halide!

Oh man I can't wait to get mine running.

A little confused though as I downloaded the manual the other night ( bored at work ) and the manual shows you how to do the Natural mode?

Is the natural mode not active yet in the software? Sorry guys mine is still in the box so I haven't downloaded any software yet.

The latest SW revision includes the "Natural" mode.

excellent thank you

Even though your lights are still in the box you can download the latest software to check it out. I still have mine on artificial mode which is awesome but will be upgrading to natural mode tomorrow which I hear is even better than artificial mode. You will love these lights like everyone else does I'm sure!