I would hate to see that it’s the way it is because of a price factor, I’m sure NP has its reasons for choosing the array it has, I do think that additional 380-430 - would be awesome I’m unfamiliar with mint diodes but interested in the combination of blue& mint you mentioned for look + increased actinic for growth & popI have tried getting @noopsyche to reconsider the layout numeruos times. Idk how up to date you are on diodes but:
I feel like dropping AT LEAST 2 regular blues,and replacing with royal blues or a 385nm and 430nm violets/uv would be great and add a good pump in spectrum and par. A lot of people thing UV/Violet is useless but lower nm uv like 385nm can actually help reduce the chances of bacterial infections in LPS like torches,hammers and acan's (learned this from a podcast ReefBum put out)
Regular blue can be SUPER overpowering,but does help to bring out colors like red,orange,pinks in corals. But 6 in an array that small is just too much. Are the regular blues on the same channel as the royals or are the violets on the royal channel ?
Dropping the 2 cool whites and replacing with a nw/ww and a mint or lime would do WONDERS. Mint is an incredible diode. When used with warm whites mainly,it completely kills the yellowing a ww emitts,makes everything crisp AND eliminates the need for red and green diodes since they are heavy in those 2 colors. You can use mint and royal blue ans get an impessive whiteish blue light with tons of pop.
Adding violets to the royal channel would be a good touch. Less channels to achieve the actinic setting.
Thats good to hear about the shimmer because honestly,Kessil's shimmet makes me want to throw up when I look at tanks light by them. It literally makes my head hurt lol.
Someone’s got to have plug and play diode light coming out soon haha
Do you mind elaborating on the previous interactions regarding changing the arrays