Ecotech Radion Thread Starting 11/11.

chestnud · Dec 9, 2011

No par readings yet, but my sand bed is 30" below the units and they are at 60-65% intensity, sps looks good both high up and down near the sand bed. Chalices, well they are glowing:

Dashiki · Dec 13, 2011

Having buyers remorse on buying sol blues the colors on the radion are sweet. Im thinking of selling my sol's how many radion's for a 30x30 cube 24" depth

chestnud · Dec 13, 2011

I would say 1-2. It would really depend on how high it was hung.

Dashiki · Dec 14, 2011

It would be hung from the ceiling. If I bought one unit and could create the speed for the 30x30 would I get enough par to put Los on the sand. Sps would mostly be in the upper third of the tank.

marclwheeler · Dec 14, 2011

FYI, the Natural mode is out and ready for the download...

Rsnapp31 · Dec 27, 2011

How many would I need for a 72 gallon bow front 42 inches long 18 inches wide with a canopy?

chestnud · Dec 28, 2011

2 units

chestnud · Dec 28, 2011

Dashiki said:
It would be hung from the ceiling. If I bought one unit and could create the speed for the 30x30 would I get enough par to put Los on the sand. Sps would mostly be in the upper third of the tank.

I have some sps frags about 20" (through water) under the units and they are happy.

marclwheeler · Dec 28, 2011

fyi... i think a 30x30 really could get by w/ 1 just hang it higher...

TheWeaz · Dec 30, 2011

How high should I plan to hang mine over a 24x24?

niftyjosh · Dec 30, 2011

TheWeaz said:
How high should I plan to hang mine over a 24x24?

About 9-10"

I've had mine from day 1 and I can't say anything bad about them.

I program them for natural mode but I keep the unit itself on artificial. The progression of spectrum is exactly what I am looking for. I have 2 hanging over a standard 90, at about 9", set at 80% and I don't think I can go higher.

mylifeismyown66 · Jan 4, 2012

TheWeaz said:
How high should I plan to hang mine over a 24x24?

Mine is over a 24x24x20 cube about 8"-9" above the water running at 95% mid day at 14k. Thing is sweet!

cabi · Jan 4, 2012

Chest,how many radions do you think I need for my new tank is going to be most Sps. 36x30wx20h. Thanks in advance.

texsun · Jan 4, 2012

I finally hung mine over the holidays and programmed them last night. Anyone notice that natural mode starts and ends with the green turned up? Seems unnatural to me.

I've ran MH -> AI Sol Blue -> Powermodule and now the Radion. Love the lights so far. I have them at max 55% at artifical mode.

chestnud · Jan 4, 2012

I would run two on your setup.

cabi said:
Chest,how many radions do you think I need for my new tank is going to be most Sps. 36x30wx20h. Thanks in advance.

chestnud · Jan 4, 2012

I noticed that too. Mine are set in artificial mode max at 65% I used the preset 20k spectrum but decreased the whites to 30%. That gave it a nice 20k with actinic look to it.

texsun said:
I finally hung mine over the holidays and programmed them last night. Anyone notice that natural mode starts and ends with the green turned up? Seems unnatural to me.

I've ran MH -> AI Sol Blue -> Powermodule and now the Radion. Love the lights so far. I have them at max 55% at artifical mode.

texsun · Jan 4, 2012

chestnud said:
I noticed that too. Mine are set in artificial mode max at 65% I used the preset 20k spectrum but decreased the whites to 30%. That gave it a nice 20k with actinic look to it.

I'm more of a 14k guy and turned up the reds on min. Outstanding color rendition as compared with the AI Sols.