Metal Halide Bulb

[venkiw]

There has been close to 30 bulbs sold to members of this forum, please check the thread pointed out earlier by a member.

The AB is a 13K bulb sold as a 10K, as most people know the PAR rating goes down with higher CCT, so the AB cannot produce PAR anywhere near a 10K. Try our bulbs on the HQI ballast as well and prepare to be amazed.

Like I said, I sent a bulb to a reef central member, who in my opinion is doing a unbiased review, so please wait for the results. By then our bulbs will be availble at a store near you.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by venkiw

The AB is a 13K bulb sold as a 10K, as most people know the PAR rating goes down with higher CCT, so the AB cannot produce PAR anywhere near a 10K. Try our bulbs on the HQI ballast as well and prepare to be amazed.

Hmm weird cuz the AB blows way a ushio 10000K, and I have tested 4 Iwasaki 400's and two of them were lower PAR than the AB and two were higher. I think you are making a blanket statment that is not nessasarly true in all cases, another point and case is a 20000K radium on a HQI ballast is with in 5% of the value that I got as a result of testing three AB bulbs. I can tell you now if you can find a 250 watt bulb I would be very supprised if it tested higher than a properly run AB.

anyways has anyone from Victoria/Vancouver bought one of these bulbs and plan on comming to the island soon?

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by venkiw

I am getting a new batch of 175, 250 and 400 Watt bulbs and 250 and 400 Watt electronic ballast coming in next week.

Venki Worathur

are your bulbs "coralvue"?

Steve

[venkiw]

Our bulbs are not "Coralvue", we do not have any connection whatsoever with CoralVue. I believe they are our competitors.

AB is a pretty good bulb, but your test results so far are unpredictable as far as I can see as the Iwasaki is one of the most reliable bulb (thus far). I do not know how 2 came higher and 2 came lower.

Can you provide us some data from your tests so far along with your setup for experiment, I would like to send them to SMEs for validation.

[Samw]

PFO HQI Ballast results are now available.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...53#post1918253

Wow, look at the amount of watts the PFO HQI 250watt ballast is using! 349 watts for the Ushio bulb for example. This is closer to a 400 watt ballast.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Samw

Wow, look at the amount of watts the PFO HQI 250watt ballast is using! 349 watts for the Ushio bulb for example. This is closer to a 400 watt ballast.

ya but look in the increase in PAR the mag ballast (M80) has over the icecap electronic. the PFO is 1.5 time that amount of PAR and 1% more efficient than the icecap. Icecap puts out 1.75 PAR / watt the PFO HQI (M80) puts out 1.77 PAR / watt so for `100 more watts you are getting 200 more PAR. I will stick with the M80 for sure now that I have seen that.

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Look at the impressive numbers from the Iwasaki.. 100 more watts and 300 more PAR damn.

from that chart I can see that the power consumed and PAR produces between the Icecap electronic ballast is very simular to the standard magnetic ballast. but the HQI (M80) is in a league of its own.

It will be interesting to see the AB results as his measurments are 7" of air, whare mine were 7" of air and 5" of water.

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Sam, new numbers for the AB bulb and the XM bulb.. looks like his numbers reflect when I got when we tested yours and mine. weird how using the M80 ballast over the icecap give you 1.5x more PAR. well ar least we know the difference was from the ballast and not the different style of bulb now. and wow did you see the numbers the XM bulbs are pulling.. more PAR that a iwaski and 10K to boot.. where can we find some of thoes?

Steve

[Samw]

Thanks for the update. Well, I guess I'll be looking out for one of these then:

http://www.hellolights.com/15xde10hqide1.html

Given the data now, I don't think its weird that your ballast has 1.5x more PAR if it uses 1.5x more electricity.