Are LEDs the wave of the future..??

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Why is this?

Lux is lumens with area taken into account.

yes it is, but it tells us nothing of the quality of the light. there is only a specific band of light that is usable for photosynthis and that is what is important to us.

Snappy, we had a guy on here that was going to send me a luxton star and driver "on loan" for me to run PAR tests as he was claiming how good they were and that he was going to start producing a LED lighting system.. well in short I sent my address he said they were on the way.. 8 months laiter still nothing.

I do have a PAR sensor and have tested normal LED's very disapointing PAR output. less than 1/20th of a NO actinic bulb, so going by that if a luxton is 10X more powerfull we should still only see 1/2 of the output of a NO tube, but it would take about 5 luxtons to cover the same area.. and at 20.00 a pop it wouldn't be a cheaper method of lighting..

so if anyone has a luxton and driver they could spare for a week or two I will do tests and get some comparitive figures instead of speculation.

Steve