Subman's Jump into the big leagues (225g)

[subman]

Originally Posted by Arok3000

So you decided to sell the Vega fixtures?
What did you not like about them specifically? Did the radion simply outpower it?

Not exactly I actually had the Radions for sale and had a buyer for them last week, I had a conference in Ottawa so he was going to pick them up this week. Then I learn last night Ecotech has dropped the MSRP on the radions, the price for new was less than I was hoping to get for them. I'm not prepared to take a $800 loss in a year so I am really forced to keep them (not all that bad I still love them) so now the Vega's are for sale and I have a order in for a couple more radions.

Originally Posted by Bblinks

Subman, are you able to get a par meter and take some reading for us? It would be greatly appreciated.

On the side note, the money you spend on 1 radion you can almost get 2 vegas, not saying it's better but just stating a fact.

I will try to get a par meter and do that although the par meter and leds don't seem to jive the readings are a little miss leading.

As for a side by side comparison now that I have the controller (which is ok at best) the vega's are very close in brightness using my eye meter. I find the Radions have less of the disco ball effect but only noticeable if you are looking for it. I have seen a great deal of growth in all my corals under both lights and with the right amount of tweaking the corals and fish pop under both lights. I think at this point both of these lights are very comparable, and both ways of setting them up leave a lot to be desired.