Hi Chris, Chin Lee was talking about doing this mod by swapping out the end caps. I've had the same idea but am not too electrically inclined so I've been waiting for a good step by step instruction before trying it. My idea was to use 4 24" T5's as the Coralife ballast can't drive 4 36" T5's.
I even drew a pretty picture to show Mark in hopes he was better at electrical tinkering than I am. I'll throw it on here incase someone with more skills than I have wants to upgrade their Aqualight and write me a step by step manual :mrgreen
I just dawned on me. I'm not really good with drawing pictures either
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Originally Posted by Interior_Reef
Hey mark,
If your allowed to play one day, perhaps you would like to come over and attept (help) me do the same thing to my 6ft Coralife. i have been contemplating swappin the PCs for T5s. was gonna do 8 39Ws i think.
your like looks phenominal for color.!!!
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Originally Posted by mseepman
Wait until the weekend when you see how it wasn't all that hard. 8 lights the way that I'm doing it would be pretty expensive though. I'm using the Sunblasters and their ballasts. You might be better off using the original coralife ballasts to run t5 caps. I just couldn't do that because I wanted 4 x 39w which was 156w while the ballast could only run 2 x 65 (130w).
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