Reefkoi's Evo150 and 36" light rail AMAZING!!

[returnofsid]

We finally took the leap, moving into our first LED lighting system. After many months of research and past dealings with Reefkoi, we decided on Chris' Evo150 along with a 36" light rail, for our 40 Breeder. One word = AMAZING!!

The packaging was done so well that it took longer to unwrap the light rail than it did to assemble it. After unwrapping the 5 pieces, it took me about 6 minutes to assemble and then another minute of fine tuning, once I had it set on the tank. Plenty of hanging hardware is provided, though we decided to use the 2 longer screws (also provided) to attach the Evo150 directly to the light rail, instead of hanging it from the light rail. This took another 2 or 3 minutes. Plugged it in, hit the power switches and WOW!! I'm currently running the whites at about 30% and blues at about 50%. Everything looks amazing! I've been playing with the controls some and am just amazed at how much POP there is, with the whites completely off and the blues at about 75%. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll slowly ramp both white and blue up, but I've read enough to know that I'll really want to go slowly with that. This weekend, the 250MH pendant will go back over the tank, since the Evo150 will be accompanying us to the Bob Moore Frag Swap. I can't wait to get the camera out and snap some pictures, though that'll have to wait a day.

The light rail is simple, sleek and very functional. With the Evo150 attached, it's a very classy look! I'm so impressed and only wish I'd made this leap sooner!

I'll get the glass cleaned up and get some pics taken, as soon as possible!

Chris, thank you so much, for the great communication, putting up with all my questions, over the past year or so and finally, thank you for getting this built and shipped to us, so quickly!

[reefkoi]

awesome to hear!! now where are those pix haha you know the forum rules state its not true if there aren't pix

[returnofsid]

Here's a quick video I just made. My shaky hands and low video recording skills result in a crappy video...lol. Pics will be posted soon. I've taken pics, but Angie's on the desktop doing homework. My Adobe is on the desktop.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ttv-WTnc0

[returnofsid]

Here's the photos I promised...

Here's a few pics. Out of curiosity, because I've heard SO MANY TIMES, that it's impossible to get the right colors when photographing LED lit tanks, I tried a lil' experiment. I shot all the photos in Manual Mode, never touching any settings. All photos were shot in RAW. Flow was turned off and most photos were shot through the surface, without a look down box.

These photos were completely untouched, except to convert from RAW to Jpg. No white balance correction, nothing. Some photos will appear a lil' dark because I should have changed my shutter speed or aperture setting.







Each of the above photos is pretty darn close to true color, but not quite there. Keep in mind, I didn't make any adjustments at all. When shooting in RAW, a White Balance adjustment is almost always needed, no matter what you're taking a picture of.

Now, here's that last photo again, with the only correction being a White Balance Adjustment. This photo is identical to what I see, when I look at these corals. This photo, and the one above, are the same photo. The one above is as taken, then one below is with the White Balance corrected.



So, I can honestly say, those that say it's impossible to get a true to color photo, under LEDs, don't know what they're talking about...lol

Here's a couple more, taken through the glass, with WB adjusted.