LED Color Combos

[philg3]

Way to hijack a good thread you two, can we get back to some discussion on LED Color Combo's now that your finished arguing semantics?

I've been looking at the Maxspect Mazarra and its a very intriguing light that allows you to replace LED Chipsets as well as lenses in a plug and play kind of way. The Reef versions comes with :

Cree XML 5w 8500K White
Cree XPG 3w 8500K White
Philips Luxeon Rebel 3w 480nm Blue

Philips Luxeon Rebel 3w 460nm Royal Blue

SIBDI U60 3w 410nm Super Actinic

SIBDI U70 3w 420nm Super Actinic

Pretty impressive line-up of LED's that are controllable through 4 different Channels.

I have one of the SWC Cree Fixtures (pretty much the same as any of the cheap chinese ones) that rocks straight 1:1 ratio of White to Royal Blue. The Color when mixed is okay but i dont know if i like the look of the tank with Royal Blue only. I was looking at a tank that had a few of these chinese fixtures alongside some ATI Blue t5 lamps and the color with both the T5's and the Royal Blue LED's was much nicer.

Problem is I have never seen the light from the straight blue LED's in person, can anyone here give some insight into the color difference between the two different kinds of Blue LED?

[StirCrazy]

I go to work for a day and look what happens

I say your both right. although I don't believe the specificly designed for aquarium use. what I do believe is that they did what I am looking at doing with my prototype if it works out for me. One of my best buddies lives in china and is incharge of a huge company which started out making parts and componants for there hot tub company here in canada. (artic spas) anyways they have also added led lights over the last 3 years.. they do not use Cree, bridglux, epson, but rather make there own to customers specs. when I was talking to him about trying to get some LEDs on the cheep he asked what Kelvin rating I wanted the output to be and what kind of intensity, as well as a few other questions. well I thought I could just get a few handfulls of Cree's off him so this took me by surprise. so last january when we got togeather for a funeral we talked some more, they do manufacture all there own LEDs and they are used by a lot of the companies in the household lighting area.

anyways the lense on thoes LEDs is what peeked my interest.. it looks like they are using a higher powered LED and actualy dispersing it a bit, which helps to prevent the rainbow effect on a larger fixture.. I am leaning towards the opposit right now trying to see if I can simulate a point sourse that will cover the entire tank with out a lot of drop off on the edges.

Steve

[MMAX]

Originally Posted by philg3

Way to hijack a good thread you two, can we get back to some discussion on LED Color Combo's now that your finished arguing semantics?

I've been looking at the Maxspect Mazarra and its a very intriguing light that allows you to replace LED Chipsets as well as lenses in a plug and play kind of way. The Reef versions comes with :

Cree XML 5w 8500K White
Cree XPG 3w 8500K White
Philips Luxeon Rebel 3w 480nm Blue

Philips Luxeon Rebel 3w 460nm Royal Blue

SIBDI U60 3w 410nm Super Actinic

SIBDI U70 3w 420nm Super Actinic

Pretty impressive line-up of LED's that are controllable through 4 different Channels.

I have one of the SWC Cree Fixtures (pretty much the same as any of the cheap chinese ones) that rocks straight 1:1 ratio of White to Royal Blue. The Color when mixed is okay but i dont know if i like the look of the tank with Royal Blue only. I was looking at a tank that had a few of these chinese fixtures alongside some ATI Blue t5 lamps and the color with both the T5's and the Royal Blue LED's was much nicer.

Problem is I have never seen the light from the straight blue LED's in person, can anyone here give some insight into the color difference between the two different kinds of Blue LED?

My thoughts exactly Phil. I think Mike31154 summed it up best for me in his last post. In the time since I started this thread to now, I've pretty much completed my DIY retrofit. All I wanted to know about was different colors for better coral growth not who's LEDs were best, who's drinkin' the kool aid and what not.

[reefermadness]

Originally Posted by philg3

Way to hijack a good thread you two, can we get back to some discussion on LED Color Combo's now that your finished arguing semantics?

Sorry...I realize we took this thread for a bit of a ride. I hate to get into it but I'm not one to back down. Although I should learn that...