AI Vega Advice

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I picked up one of these for my 29 gal BC HQI. I had upgraded the stock bulb to a 14k phoenix bulb but it blasted the top of my tank with UV so I went back to the stock bulb and now to the Vega. Going from stock I can already see great color returning on a couple of SPS, polyps are extending really good also. I have the LEDs dialed back to 35% white, 45% blue, 40% everything else. I'll keep it here to acclimate for the next 30 days then raise 5% across the board every 10 days or so until I'm around 60% unles the corals tell me differently.

My question is really about the timer functions. I have it set on the easy timer for sunrise at 730am and ramping up (4hrs) to the above values, maintain until 5 where it ramps back down (4hrs) and it "should" end at 9pm. I have the Lunar cycle enabled but not starting until 10pm and ending at 3am.

I've noticed that between 9 and 10pm the deep blues never go out (between sunset and lunar start) and when I was up a 4am this morning (because of brand new puppy) the lunar lights were still on (should have gone off at 3am).

Is there a step I've missed somewhere? Does it have anything to do with the other timer functions like the reef places (Florida, GBR, Caribbean, etc). I don't see where I can disable those, or do I even want to? Someone told me they think once the 'easy' timer is set you have to go into the manual times to fine tune, but I haven't looked at that yet. I will once I get home tonight. Any advise?
 
I set it to 0 and lights went out at 9 just like they were supposed to, but now I dont have any lunar lights and it should be at 62%. Next hint?

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