How many T5 fixtures does it take to light a tank? One.
Usually one fixture with 8 “strip lights” known as bulbs
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How many T5 fixtures does it take to light a tank? One.
LEDs magazine dot com?Attention, end users: Europe is banning fluorescent lighting
The phase-out is now in full swing, heading toward an August finale. LED vendor Glamox is among those calling for facility managers to wake up before it’s too late.www.ledsmagazine.com
Does that mean the article is not true?LEDs magazine dot com?
I’ve heard the same nonsense about neon because of the mercury and sure leds have replaced some but we’re still making plenty of neon for Las Vegas and it’s here to stay! They might ban run of the mill tubes but never specialty ones…Does that mean the article is not true?
I hope you and everyone else are correct it will only help me......I’ve heard the same nonsense about neon because of the mercury and sure leds have replaced some but we’re still making plenty of neon for Las Vegas and it’s here to stay! They might ban run of the mill tubes but never specialty ones…
Crystal ball viewing t5 lights. Begining I mid 2020's most new reefers told t5s are for beginners, not cost effective due to bulbs replacement needed every 8 months. LEDs can do everything t5s can do only better. So very few new people going with t5s. The entire globe is told the world is burning up because of man. We must mandate clean energy. Coal burning power plants are taken off line. Wind generators and solar power become the only source of new energy. This new energy can not keep up with the demand, so a radical shift to only energy efficient lighting is mandated starting in Europe. Rumors fly about t5 going away so everyone starts hording t5 bulbs. Eventually because the few people still running t5s already have 4 or 5 years of lights on hand, sales fall. Bulb manufacturer's look for ways to cut cost. Move there production to China closing there plants in Europe. Then after the market is flooded with Chinese t5s someone puts a light meter under their light and find out that they no longer have that beautiful uv to indigo light spectrum, but rather something that looks like a space needle spectrum found in cheep Amazon LEDS. People switch to LEDs leaving t5s death of t5
Well here is the " catch". Those specialty bulbs are special because there is no equivalent and/or economic way to replace them.I’ve heard the same nonsense about neon because of the mercury and sure leds have replaced some but we’re still making plenty of neon for Las Vegas and it’s here to stay! They might ban run of the mill tubes but never specialty ones…
im in the same boat, can't decide weather to go t5, led or hybrid.And then the fight started...
Good pointI can't see specialty bulbs that have demand going anywhere. They still make t12 tanning bed bulbs.
Actually that is part of my point aboveI can't see specialty bulbs that have demand going anywhere. They still make t12 tanning bed bulbs.
That 5% is about 18% of the bulb.Most professional indoor tanning units emit about 95 percent UVA and 5 percent UVB in regulated dosages similar to summer sun
They couldn't even discontinue metal halides or sodium vapor lamps because metal halides still are the best way to light things like warehouses (like costco uses them, for example), and sodium vapor lamps last the longest so are used for street lights.Actually that is part of my point above
This is the output of the uv part:
That 5% is about 18% of the bulb.
ATM there are no current led replacements that are err " economical". A classic specialty bulb.
This is much different animal from say an ati blue plus bulb.
Please note I have no idea what the bulb capitalists will do in the future.
Anything is pure speculation .
One thing is almost certain though. If the " big users" go away the remaining bulbs will most likely increase in price.
I have a feeling that there are more tanning bed tubes used per year than aquarium ones. Not to mention most aquarium bulbs are not t12.
Looks like 100w tanning bed bulbs are about $30 each.
Actually current l/w for quality low cri white LEDs is around 140- ish.the #1 thing that differentiates the two is efficiency, and everyone goes by the benchmarks, which suggest that LED's produce twice as much lumens per watt... which actually doesn't hold true the shorter the wavelength of light. Royal blue leds and beyond have a fraction of the lumens per watt that people are using as benchmarks. So the run up is actually a lot closer than people think.
I think it really just comes down to spread vs appearance. Led's are simply much harder to make shine as diffusely as t5's, while t5's do a better job preventing shading and also have emit a wider peak of wavelengths. I'd say the two are sidegrades. T5's for growth, led's for appearance, but t5's also look nice, and led's also grow coral well.