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Old 01-29-2010, 12:43 PM
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What are you basing the claim that they produce higher PAR on? I'll be replacing my lamps within the next month and have been humming and hawing about Aquascience but aside from their BS advertisement disguised as a "study" I haven't found much to convince me to change to them. To date I've been most happy with ATI lamps over the Giesemann and Aquascience I have used in the past. I'll probably stick with one KZ Fiji Purple regardless of what I do though.
on this.... http://archiv.korallenriff.de/Lichttest/T5-1.pdf
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Old 01-29-2010, 02:37 PM
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Yeah that's the "BS advertisement disguised as a 'study' " to which I was referring above.

If you look at the link provided by Canuckgod420 above: http://sites.google.com/site/tfivetesting/par you'll see the PAR values are no better than ATI lamps.
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