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kien 11-10-2012 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by subman (Post 762748)
I have a severe led addiction problem....I have radions, Vega's and a sol on my tank now but I'm starting to want to sell them all and get Mitras.

(I'm a complete moron)

Seems like fairly typical OCD reefer behavior to me :lol:

reefwars 11-10-2012 02:14 AM

hey man looks great im obviouly lacking i didnt even know you had water in it lol

thats it....subscribed!!

reefwars 11-10-2012 02:25 AM

is that a carbon reactor i see??:P

mrhasan 11-10-2012 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reefwars (Post 762783)
is that a carbon reactor i see??:P

Carbon gives you nightmare isinit Denny? ;)

On the serious note.....................Subscribed :D

FishyFishy! 11-10-2012 04:07 PM

DROOOL. I'm totally jealous of your plumbing/sump setup. I hope that mine turns out the least bit as beautiful as yours! lol. Can't wait to see those lights in action!

....Do they actually come with sunglasses??... or am I missing a totally obvious inside joke haha

xtreme 11-10-2012 05:53 PM

Let us know your thoughts on the Mitras. Been thinking about pulling the trigger on a few myself.

kien 11-10-2012 06:13 PM

Wow those Mitras are hot cakes! Steve needs a Mitras meet up at his haus!

sphelps 11-12-2012 12:12 AM

OK, lights are up

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...20121111_1.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...2/20121111.jpg

Initial thoughts, freaking sweet! That is all :mrgreen:

sphelps 11-12-2012 12:35 AM

Mitras LED Blurb
 
Seriously though the lights are awesome, if you're thinking about buying them you need to stop thinking and buy them already.

The spread is great, I was limited to a max of 8" (water level to bottom of fixture) mounting space above the tank due to the cabinet above. The three fixtures easily cover every area of the tank which is 62x32. Two lights may even be enough but three seems like the right amount for this tank.

Color blending is flawless, you can't see any disco effect at all, even will all colors active. To make sure my eyes haven't just adjusted to LEDs I used my camera to test, it also had issues with manual WB set with LED tanks, no issues with these fixtures.

Color is awesome, you can't go wrong as you can set to any spectrum you want.

Brightness, they do in fact come with sunglasses.

Software is probably my favorite part, the composer feature is sooooo slick. You can set what seems to be an infinite amount of points and define preset or custom CCTs for different times and brightness levels and each color channel is automatically set accordingly. It's actually quite overwhelming at first yet still very easy to use. It's something you can play with forever but I just don't have the time right now to go to town just yet so I can't say much more but you can easily save your composer settings so I suspect sharing will become pretty popular.

They of course all connect wireless to each other and to the PC with a temporary cable for programming, this procedure was 100% flawless for me.

The fixtures themselves are really nice, you can dim the display to whatever level you want and even have different settings for day and night. The touch key pad is really nice and on board programming is possible but I'd stick with the PC software for most of that. Single Cables are nice and have pretty slick quick connects to the power supplies which I noticed have an IP-67 rating which is nice to see.

So now the bad stuff...
There is absolutely nothing I can find with these lights I don't like or would want to add, pretty much a dream LED fixture.

sphelps 11-12-2012 12:41 AM

A couple other updates in the fish room

The frag tank was replaced with a larger one, plumbing was changed a bit as a result and the two return pumps have been relocated in the overflow box. The upper sump was removed as I'm not feeding a tank on the main floor anymore, considering leaving the plumbing roughed in there encase this changes but it's unlikely. Still a work in progress, Profilux 3 partially hooked up but still lots to due and I still need to build and setup a new ATO for both fresh and saltwater.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...20121111_2.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...20121111_3.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...20121111_4.jpg


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