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My question is does a lightning storm simulation matter to anyone over the age of 12?

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Originally Posted by kien (Post 645587)

The iPhone4 is outdated and has been replaced with the newer iPhone4S which people are eating up apparently.

That's a sweet deal tho! Where can I get a new iPhone4 for $0? I tried Bell, Rogers and Telus and none of them have that on their websites.

I work for telus and can offer that deal. Pm me

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy (Post 645586)

I don't get the hype people get over lightning storms.... after spending about 7 years of the last 20 at sea, I can honestly say I have seen only one lighting storm. living in victoria for 20 years I can count the lightning storms on one hand. lightning is more common in dry enviorments than it is in moist ones so why are so many people trying to make lightning on there tanks? now if you want to get realistic install a bunch of fans that can blow 1/2 the water out of your tank onto the floor then you have a hurricane simulation :mrgreen:

Steve

thats awesome made me laugh and so true lol i can picture some newbie plugging in his new light and going " humm hurricane effect whats that do" then water gushing out of the tank

or have a rain feature where it syphons water and shoots it at your ceiling like a simulated rain storm lol:):)

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Originally Posted by reefwars (Post 645591)

Look it up on YouTube. There's a guy that has a tank that simulates rain

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy (Post 645586)

But it's a lighting storm in my tank, right in my own freaking living room!!1!!eleven!!!!1!! ZOMG lightening in my living room!!!1!1eleven!!1!!

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Originally Posted by kien (Post 645594)

But it's a lighting storm in my tank, right in my own freaking living room!!1!!eleven!!!!1!! ZOMG lightening in my living room!!!1!1eleven!!1!!

Age: <12?

So - Iphone has a bazillion apps... Android has tons of apps too???
Android phones are cheaper, some people love them and hate Iphone... 'worth the money'.

Hey, Since you dont use the 'phone' part of your phone as you just said, an Ipad would actually cover all the functions you mentioned previously, and has a larger screen/interface for you to use... a bit more 'power'... but some think Ipad is a waste of $$$ too.

Halides light a tank just great, have been around for decades... LED's are so new... but some sexy as heck tanks exist that are LED lit. Some like the red and green lights in the radion... some think its a 'waste'.

Some like aquariums (like us folks on this site)... others say 'too much work/boring'.

This is, like someone said (Kien was it?), all 'relative'. What is awesome and cool and worth extra money to you, might not be to someone else, and vice-versa. This is where 'opinions' are the boss. Your opinion = radion blows... Other guy = radion = THE thing to have. That other guy thinks Iphone blows and has android... You: Iphone RULEZ.

The demand obviously existed for all the features that ecotech has offered... and they have made a fixture that is comparable to others in the market, with some trinkets that certain people will prefer, and will pay the demanded price for. (Also btw: the ($850)radion is not that much more than other fixtures... you said it was double or triple? What comparable fixtures pre-built, that have a programmable option with them, are half or a third of the price? Aquaillumination is like $600, Vertex Illumina is like $1000, and the PacSun Python is like $1200???. I'd say the Radion is hardly out of line in comparison, seeing as it offers an even greater ability to play with colours to your liking by having RGB LED).

And as per that last line... I think the ability to fine-tune colours to your liking, and get certain colours to pop from the corals (red/greens) that normally wouldnt from other lights... is awesome. You may think its rubbish. Difference of value and opinion.

I have an Iphone and a Macbook pro... I used to have a PC and a Blackberry. I had 'no problem' with my PC... but since switching to mac... I have seen an incredible difference in things that are convenient for me. PC though does have certain 'workplace' or 'school' advantages over my mac... and for those I will use the PC still, but my mac is usually faster, easy to use... and i hardly ever get any sort of 'error' windows (and I am computer savy enough to avoid average PC consumer problems).

My blackberry was a heap of junk, and replaced twice in 2 years. I was happy enough with apple from my Ipods and macbook that I figured Iphone was worth a shot. So far... this phone is light years ahead of RIM products... but I also am aware that many android phones stomp all over RIM. Some prefer android and hate the layout of apple products.

Its all a difference of opinions and values... I may pay 3 times as much for a 10% increase in performance on my phone... the other guy may not, but he may pay $200 for a collectible stamp... while I think thats insane.

Why is the radion such a hit at it's price? The Demand curve.

Just my 2 cents (though that was probably much more than 2 cents worth of blabber, sorry folks, lol).

Cheers,

Chris

That's just too much to read!!

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Originally Posted by kien (Post 645577)

I'm not sure I follow.. What's the difference? I have an LED light that I use to light my tank sometimes, and it does happen to have a phone feature. It is called the iPhone4.

Pretty sure he was making a joke about a multi-use phone/light/coffee-maker type all-in-one thing?:lol:

I never said I think this thing blows. I just don't think the hype and price is justified.