Any electrical/led light experts out there?

[reefwithareefer]

Hey everyone,

I got my hands on a strand of Phillips Icolor flex lmx gen2 led lights and was wondering if it is possible to use them on a reef tank. Do I have to use their controller etc or can they be made to use any controller?
I believe the light spectrum is certainly good enough for a reef tank, just not sure how to do it all etc. Willing to pay someone for their time.

http://colorkinetics.com/ls/rgb/flexlmx/

http://colorkinetics.com/ls/guides-b...IntelliHue.pdf

http://colorkinetics.com/support/whi...rs/UVandIR.pdf

http://www.colorkinetics.com/support...ght_Output.pdf

http://colorkinetics.com/support/whi...ew_Optibin.pdf

http://colorkinetics.com/support/tut...y_Overview.pdf

http://colorkinetics.com/support/whitepapers/


http://www.colorkinetics.com/support/colorplay3/


This is a link to a site that explained reef lighting requirements pretty well.

https://reefledlights.com/ledmytank/

[canadianbudz604]

Looks like they would run at 1w Max power, so you would need a whack of them to make them work. They do look cool, but how many lumens do they put out. How much par?

[reefwithareefer]

You can apparently see these things from 15kms away, so I assume extremely high. they are the lights that light up Rogers arena and the new Bay bridge in San Francisco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXlkajGuLY

There are 50 modules per strand and I think there are 8 leds per module

17,004 cd / m2 lumens per module. Can not find par and I have no idea what lumens I should be at for a reef tank etc , hence why I need advice.

One strand of these lights are around 1200.00 bucks, willing to part with enough for someone else to make a light themselves in exchange for helping.

[KrazyKuch]

Originally Posted by reefwithareefer

You can apparently see these things from 15kms away, so I assume extremely high. they are the lights that light up Rogers arena and the new Bay bridge in San Francisco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXlkajGuLY

There are 50 modules per strand and I think there are 8 leds per module

17,004 cd / m2 lumens per module. Can not find par and I have no idea what lumens I should be at for a reef tank etc , hence why I need advice.

One strand of these lights are around 1200.00 bucks, willing to part with enough for someone else to make a light themselves in exchange for helping.

For those lights you will need to use the controller made for them..
Each light is individually addressed, so if you provide power they will not light up until they receive a control signal.

[CM125]

you need to be able to control the UV output on these, not sure if its worth the time invested, im sure you could just buy a setup for cheaper

[KevinK]

in the spec it tells: Each node produces full-color, daylight-visible light output of up to 11 candela. -

1 candela = 12.57 lumen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_%28unit%29

A full sphere has a solid angle of 4·π steradians,[1] so a light source that uniformly radiates one candela in all directions has a total luminous flux of 1 cd·4π sr = 4π cd·sr ≈ 12.57 lumens.[2]

so if you have 50 nodes, you have 628 lumen,
I might be missing something, but this is not much

again, unless I miss something