My Reefbrite LED's - update... 1 unit failed

[Slick Fork]

Ok

I'm bad for promising pic's and taking weeks to deliver but life has been just crazy for me lately.

Got the LED's into the T5 fixture last night and put it up over the tank. Here are some shots of the retro...

Before:


After






My first impressions of the strips are very positive. The above shows them with an ATI pure Actinic and an ATI blue+ I think I will have to do some playing around with the t5's to get the colour I'm after... Shimmer is back , but not like MH shimmer. It's visibly different but I'm at a loss for words to describe how it's different.

The amount of light is tough to judge... The tank itself seems dimmer but stuff IN the tank seems brighter if that makes any sense? I have shadows again like I'm used to with MH's and everything looks crisp. The actinic Pop of the 50/50 is not quite as drastic as the all blues that I have seen but is still a noticeable effect.

I will try to get some pic's with them on the tank sometime soon

Cheers

[Milad]

how much were they?

[rstar]

Tagging along, would like to see some pictures of the light over the tank!

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by Milad

how much were they?

The first one was an arm, second was a leg...

I picked them up from Oceanic, here's the link. Very satisfied with the customer service throughout the purchase process.

http://www.oceaniccorals.com/store/i...wCat&catId=139

I will try to get some shots of them on the tank tomorrow night but no promises!

[lockrookie]

tagging for future retrofit.. i like it

[Slick Fork]

One thing the pic's don't show very well is how nicely these sit in the tek fixture. Looking at it from the side they are almost flush, sticking out less then a 1/4" from the bottom.

I will try and get some shots of the tank tonight

[Slick Fork]

So it's been a while but in my defense I was moving...

Anyways, here's the long overdue shots over the tank



This Next one is with all the lights on, Daylight and 50/50 LED Plus the T5's


Next is T5's plus the 50/50. It's very blue, I am thinking about replacing the actinic bulb with a fiji purple. But we will see.


Finally, the 50/50 all by itself. I can't seem to get the white balance right on this one. It is purpley like that in real life but not quite THAT purple.


Overall I am very pleased with the lights so far. Keep in mind when looking at the shots that the LED's are a full foot shorter then the tank (6" on either side) so I think they do quite a good job of lighting everything up. The few Corals I do have under there seem to be faring quite well with the exception of the zoanthids and I have recently moved them as they may have been getting too much light.

[Slick Fork]

In case anyone wanted to see the "shimmer" that the LED's produced, this little video shows it better than the photo's

This was with the T5's and the 50/50 LED on.