10K or 16K Maxspect LED lights, which would you buy?

[Trigger Man]

Hi guys,
I'm deciding on whether to buy the 2- 27 inch Maxspect 10k or 16k LED lights. Which would you prefer if it was you? I liked the coloring of my old tank with my T5's but it was closer to a 12k spectrum. I liked the White with a little blue tint. My worry with the 16k is that they may look to blue, when I like the natural sunlight look. What do you guys think?

[baker_jeff]

I have the 16,000 27" x 2, you can turn the blue down to 0% if you wish. I like it white more than blue, so I have the white at 70-90% and the blue at only 40%, just enough to make the corals and fish pop but still look like natural daylight.

[Trigger Man]

Thanks Baker, anyone else have any opinions on this matter?

[kien]

Originally Posted by Trigger Man

My worry with the 16k is that they may look to blue, when I like the natural sunlight look. What do you guys think?

If you like the more natural sunlight look as you say, then that's a no brainer, 10K. 16K will definitely not be a natural sunlight look :-)

But if you were to ask me which I would get, the answer would be the 16K because I do not like the natural sunlight look.

[NickC]

Get a better light. I have the razor 16k 160w and have one of the malfunctioning units that starting to melt. I'm getting pretty ticked off at their customer service and warranty handling. I'm now waiting on more than a week for parts to fix this and have very little correspondence from both the LFS I bought it from and maxspect. Been waiting now over a week for parts which were supposed to take a day to receive. I understand mail can be a bit slow, but why tell a customer it will take a day and now its 8 days later and I've still had no more updates from anyone.
Just my 2 cents.

[wreck]

dude thats crazy

[Koleswrath]

I'm pretty happy with my 16k. I would try to get something at a color you like running relatively equal white/blue settings. If you adjust the blue down too much on the 16k it gets a little purple (from the red spectrum in the warm whites).

[Skimmer Juice]

Im actually loving my maxspect , I went with the 16k fixture as I prefer a more blue look in my tank (no sps) but if I want to I can turn the white up and the blue down and it looks Just like my t5 fixtures on my other tank. So I think you could do a 16k and still be happy. Also as for the guy with the broken light, just because one broke does not mean its a crap light. Have been running mine for a few months now without any issue. Originally I was going with either the radion or the maxspect razor , went with the razor mostly because it came with mounting harware wich is nice , also there is a lfs here the owner was using 1 radion and 1 razor on the same tank and I prefered the look of the razor and the fixture is alot better looking IMO.

[Slyguy00]

I love my razor and would reccomend it to anybody. I dont understand people saying things about it being to blue or whatever since it is adjustable and you can make it whatever shade you want. If its to blue, turn up the white or down the blue. Pretty straight forward. Anywayz i have the 16,000 and i love it.

[spit.fire]

IMO go 16k, If you think it has too much blue then turn the blue channel down a touch

Personally running 100% on both channels I find myself wanting more blue