halide burn in time & color

[ThaBeast]

I just hooked up my new hamilton light fixture with 14k hamilton bulbs (SE) on hamilton electronic ballasts. Two of them are nice white blue (what I expected) but one is a really ugly green white. How long should I give it to burn in before I call hamilton technologies?

 

[Paul_N]

I have read up to 100 hours so at 8 hrs a day that would be 12 and half days. From personal experience I have never had to wait more than 2 or 3 days.

 

[ThaBeast]

Thanks Paul for making me feel better, the halides look much better now. Guess I was just disappointed to hang a new light fixture and have an ugly bulb color.

 

[Paul_N]

Your welcome.....:bigsmile: How do you like the look of the Hamilton 14ks?

 

[ThaBeast]

So far I really like them. I have 420nm t5's for supplementation. I'd take a pic but the color rendition of my camera is way off when I use it for the reef tank (camera upgrade in the future)