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Just picked up 4 of these lights at $500, did I get a good deal? Also will these lights be better then the hydra 26hd? Tank is 84x30x30
 

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Mitras 6100 is 1st gen light by ghl. Great light and platform. If i were you. I would probably replace all the pucks in each light and upgrade them to 6300's if you have the cash.

If not the 6100 is a great light and will serve you well.
 
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Mitras 6100 is 1st gen light by ghl. Great light and platform. If i were you. I would probably replace all the pucks in each light and upgrade them to 6300's if you have the cash.

If not the 6100 is a great light and will serve you well.
Thanks, went to order the upgrade clusters, they only have 3 in stock. Guess I’ll be upgrading one of the lights!
 

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Once you have them upgraded you will have brand new lights. The 6300's offer more of blue spectrum than the 6100 pucks. I ran the 6100 pucks for many years and had great color from everything. I just prefer the bluer look. Good luck.

The mitras can all be synched together and the cloud features etc. are the best I have seen in any light. If you only upgrade one of the lights you will have some issues if you want to synch the color scheme across all the lights. You will probably have to put individual program in the 6300 and then just put it on the same frequency when you add it. thats because the pucks will have different led spectrum on them.
 

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Oh yeah. Each light will need 6 pucks and you have to buy the uv led separately.
 
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Oh yeah. Each light will need 6 pucks and you have to buy the uv led separately.
Yeah the HV channel is a separate channel, but the pucks have the standard UV. The puck replacements come in a pack of 2 it seems. There site says they have 3 in stock, so enough to do one light. I emailed support to see how long it takes to get the rest, once I find out, I’ll order them. Or I may just order 4 orphek OR bars to add that bluer spectrum/ more UV
 

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Oh ok. Yeah the OR bars may be a better solution. That would work nice with the 6100's. I have all Orphek fixture now on my display. The bars are nice.
 
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Oh ok. Yeah the OR bars may be a better solution. That would work nice with the 6100's. I have all Orphek fixture now on my display. The bars are nice.
I wanted to go with Atlantiks, but at $1500 each Canadian, or wasn’t really an option. So you think the upgrade kit or the OR bars?
 
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Got an email back from GHL , due to the age of the product the 6300 upgrade kit is no longer in production, meaning, those are the last 3 available
 

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Oh ok. I think the light bars is a better choice anyway. It will allow you to get better coverage across that aquarium.
 

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My HLG 240H-24 shorted out on one of my GHL Mitras Lx 6100 and GHL doesn't have any replacement. Does anyone have a replacement
Which "type"?
I believe there are plenty of places to get one from
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You can go cheaper as long as you match specs and can tolerate an "open frame" power supply and a fan.
Please not ..afaict.. this model is in short supply.
350W over the orig 240W but all that really matters is the 24V and "enough" watts..more is fine, to a point (an efficiency thing).
LRS350-24
Come to think of it does the HLG fit in a sort of external "box".
The frame probably wouldn't..but just a wiring thing.

Assumption.. HLG is run constant voltage.
 
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