rotating lights???

[mike31154]

Aren't there horizontal light movers available (also spawned by the hydroponics industry)? These would work better on a rectangular tank and you would actually save money by only using a single halide and having the device move the light back & forth over your system. That rotary thing looks scary and ill suited to even a cube. Good for a cylindrical tank maybe.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Aren't there horizontal light movers available (also spawned by the hydroponics industry)? These would work better on a rectangular tank and you would actually save money by only using a single halide and having the device move the light back & forth over your system. That rotary thing looks scary and ill suited to even a cube. Good for a cylindrical tank maybe.

my tank is a cube its 48" x 48" only my height isnt as extreme as chin lee's mines 20" .im not set on it yet i have made the decision that im going to use a circle ring to mount 4 pendants its just someone mentioned that i should go rotating and i was like " really" "they do that??" lol so i was curious and now that ive seen someone with that im even more curious haha what have i got myself into now lol

im guessing the problem lies in that i have 16 sq/ft that needs to be lit up without using fixtures on legs or having lights covering up the whole top so if i can make a sleek giant "metal washer" i can bolt four pendants onto them just offset slightly from the middle......and thats where rotation got brought up lol

[mike31154]

Well then your giant metal washer idea with four pendants sounds good. Not much need to rotate something like that I reckon. Would make things overly complex for no real benefit or reason.