I bought them a few years ago, I have a pretty good stash of halide bulbs.Where did you find Hamiltons?
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I bought them a few years ago, I have a pretty good stash of halide bulbs.Where did you find Hamiltons?
My photons can be as bright as I want. They also have the halide shimmer as long as you have surface agitation. I will try to get a video to show you.I've been looking around for metal halide fixtures and there definitely isn't as many options around as there used to be. One of my main issues, probably, is that when I switched over to led I bought the cheap black box versions. The light is brite and the corals grow well but it just seems flat compared to the halide shimmer. And then there are the disco colors on the sand I see with most led's.
250 watt Phoenix 14K double ended in lumen bright fixtures.What color are your metal halides in that video?
KessilYes, I miss the shimmer as well. Any leds creating that affect?
Why does everyone say Kessils I'm curious?Kessil
Did you see my previous videos. I'm curious as to what you think of the photon shimmer vs my old halides.I have not really researched the photons, but the kessil i have seen have a very natural looking shimmer. Its the closest i have seen to MH.. i will be using the Kessil A500x most likely
Here is a pretty good review of the kessil A500Why does everyone say Kessils I'm curious?
I get shimmer with Radions and Photons
I did, i just have not had a chance to pull stats and do more research... been on the rad since Monday. Lol they are on my list to check out though.Did you see my previous videos. I'm curious as to what you think of the photon shimmer vs my old halides.
Why does everyone say Kessils I'm curious?
I get shimmer with Radions and Photons
Thanks!It is how Kessil designed their optics and their dense matrix LED array. It does not mean that other LED kits do not have it but typically it isn't on the same level. For example my Neptune SKY's have shimmer but there is a noticeable difference when I had the Kessil a360x's over the display. Very noticeable.
Of course we all see these things differently so this is just my experience between the two and shimmer. I've read enough posts around the web that most say shimmer is one of Kessil's strengths. Of course your mileage may vary.
Not the best video but.
Video 1 my Photon 50's shimmer
Video 2 my old 120 halide shimmer.
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Yea I run my whites at 30%. I turned them up to 100% for the other pic.So the specs on the photons look tremendous. But one thing i notice and bear in mind blue spectrum wacks out videos badly and they may be different in person...but the led vid appears to have color separation in areas, this could be due to the amount of surface agitation or the spacing of the leds in the fixture. The MH is a nice clean ripple...and by the way that 250 phoenix 14k was an incredible bulb...its what i ran in my current sunpod with t5 actinics for supplement...
I would need 2 photon 24 v2 pros to get the coverage for the tank build i am planning and it is appearing i can pull off what i want to do with a single kessil A500x.
Thanks!
You are welcome. It dawned on me that I may have an older video of my display with Kessil's over it and I did. Nothing exciting but maybe it will give you an idea of that Kessil shimmer.
Hope your day is well.
Yea that's more shimmer than I care for. Also more than any halide I have run in the past 30.
I guess If you like heavy shimmer the Kessils are the way to go.