kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[Doug]

Originally Posted by kien

Sadly this may be the last time I ever install my beloved Phoenix halides into this fixture

And also, OMG I feel like such a geezer talking about my halide fixture..

What are you thinking of switching to.

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by Doug

What are you thinking of switching to.

radium 250w bulbs! or aqua connect 14,000k. just a suggestion for when the phoenix bulb supply dies up

[kien]

Originally Posted by freezetyle

radium 250w bulbs! or aqua connect 14,000k. just a suggestion for when the phoenix bulb supply dies up

I don't think Radium does Duel Ended. Only mogul

I have no idea what I'll try. Who knows, maybe I will be lucky and find a supplier next Christmas. If not I may have to try another vendor. Seems odd talking about changing out (halide) bulbs in this day and age Seriously Keener, it's 2015, get with the times!

[Myka]

Hailde or bust!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by kien

I don't think Radium does Duel Ended. Only mogul

They have 150w at J&L, maybe they make 250w

[kien]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

They have 150w at J&L, maybe they make 250w

This is starting to sound very familiar :-) Pretty sure I've been down this road before. The last time I checked which was about a year go and the year before that, they didn't have DE 250 watt bulbs. Maybe that's changed, I'll have to look. If they do, then ya, that's a no brainer! I love Radiums (that I've seen on other tanks).

[Aquattro]

Sorry, no go

http://premiumaquatics.com/articles/radium

[WarDog]

kien, have you tried to contact Phoenix directly? Their site however is only in Japanese. Got any Japanese friends?

[Proteus]

I tried out the xm20k bulb and I really like it, quite blue

[kien]

Well, it's official.. my beloved light fixture has given up the ghost. Last year it was a blown ballast which I easily replaced (thanks to some grow-op suppliers on Amazon), but now one of my light fixtures is blowing out bulbs At at first I thought it was just a dead bulb so I ordered a new one (they're $78 now). As soon as I plugged it in, POOF. $78 up in a proverbial puff of smoke. It's not the ballast this time because I've done the ballast musical chairs thing to test them all out and they all work fine. There must be a circuit inside the fixture that's shorted or something. I'm not an electrician and I don't really want to spend the time to crack it open to debug it further so I am officially on the hunt for a new light fixture now.

Sadly, I may have no choice but to go LED. If I can I'd like to go hybrid LED/T5. Actually, if I can, I'd like to get a whole new Halide/T5 fixture! I think Giessmman still makes them?