**The GHL Mitras LX7 LED**
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dangros
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@buck27, is there anything you had questions about? What do you have/want growing under it?
I love the lights. My corals are growing out of the water. I actually have a too many corals problem.
My general advice would be to pick a consistent light schedule and stick with it. Keep them clean. Dust and salt forms fairly easily in these environments. A can of air would be good to shoot into the fan once in a while to keep the dust from accumulating.
I love the lights. My corals are growing out of the water. I actually have a too many corals problem.
My general advice would be to pick a consistent light schedule and stick with it. Keep them clean. Dust and salt forms fairly easily in these environments. A can of air would be good to shoot into the fan once in a while to keep the dust from accumulating.
willieboy240
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On the GHL site. Vinny made a custom program called reef rocker or something like that. He sent me a refined version of it. I like it.
Also telegraham made a version copying ab+. But I haven’t tried that one yet.
buck27
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I actually copied your light schedule from page 10 of this thread LOL! I did turn the white, green, and red down just a touch though and have the 2 running master/slave from a ramp up of 25% to 90% starting at 12pm to 11pm ish. it runs at 90% starting at 4pm to 11pm then down to 5% moon light. I have sps on one side and mostly lps and monti's with zoas on the other side so a mixed reef I would say. I did have a heck of a time getting everything talking to the app and the control center but it is good now. I am also running in acclimation mode for a week or 2 to get make sure that nothing is burnt with light! I may just leave it as is or I might go check out the updated version of the one Vinney has. for now, i plan to just let it run for awhile so long as nothing is dying.
Saltysav96
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How's everyone liking their Mitras?
love mine so far. Still trying to get my tank ready for SPS, but Very solid lights.
Saltysav96
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Im sure you can by dropping the blues and upping the whites, or get the freshwater version.
Laith
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How's everyone liking their Mitras?
I find them fantastic. I especially like the better coverage I'm getting with much less sharp shadowing. And they have no problem giving me 100 PAR on the bottom of a 80cm deep tank.
The only negative I can find with these lights is that they do get very hot to the touch. So one needs to make sure there is proper ventilation around them...
Laith
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HO... I seem to get better PAR spread running them HO than Energy Saver, at least with the depth I'm dealing with.
Laith
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I have them about 20cm (about 8") above the water.
I assume by 100% you are referring to the Power Balancing Technology? I have the blues (Blue, Royal Blue and Blue White) as well as Hyperviolet at 120%. The others are at 50% except for ultraviolet at 65%.
And here is the spectrum at the peak period:
rtparty
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Just got a 7204 setup over my LPS dominant 50g cube. Took me over 4 hours to get the light connected and working. There are no instructions of any kind and when I followed the videos so many things wouldn't work. Control Center constantly says Not Responding and wouldn't connect. Multiple installs and uninstalls later and I finally got it working.
The hardware looks and feels fantastic! The software couldn't be worse.
The hardware looks and feels fantastic! The software couldn't be worse.
Same experience here. And it seems to randomly stop working worth control center via WiFi so I have to hardwire to my laptop often.
they need to hire some better coders.
rtparty
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Same experience here. And it seems to randomly stop working worth control center via WiFi so I have to hardwire to my laptop often.
they need to hire some better coders.
These companies need to realize they've made things way too complicated. It shouldn't take me more than 10-15 minutes to setup the light and have it running.
This tank is going in my main living area so form is super important. I didn't want to build a canopy of any kind to hide a halide so LED was my choice.
After yesterday, I should have just gone with a Radion. Mobius is a million times better and easier than GHL's mess. I may still go that route to be honest. I need to make some changes and I'm not ready to lose 2 hours to make the simplest adjustments.
Ditto
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Sorry your having issue connecting your light, are you running a meshed network of 2.4 and 5mhz?
Below was the steps I did to connect my light to my wireless network and configure. Took about 5 mins.
www.reef2reef.com
Below was the steps I did to connect my light to my wireless network and configure. Took about 5 mins.
Configuring LX7206 in Minutes with my Iphone no desktop software needed
I can not believe how easy this was!! It was so easy I am going to do a video of the slave units being configured next as it took less then 3 minutes on my iphone to configure the Lx7206 to be used by the GHL App. I purchased 3 Lx 7206 for a upgrade to one of my existing tanks, the quality of...
www.reef2reef.com
rtparty
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Sorry your having issue connecting your light, are you running a meshed network of 2.4 and 5mhz?
Below was the steps I did to connect my light to my wireless network and configure. Took about 5 mins.
Configuring LX7206 in Minutes with my Iphone no desktop software needed
I can not believe how easy this was!! It was so easy I am going to do a video of the slave units being configured next as it took less then 3 minutes on my iphone to configure the Lx7206 to be used by the GHL App. I purchased 3 Lx 7206 for a upgrade to one of my existing tanks, the quality of...
Did all that countless times. It won't connect to my network. I tried both the 2.4 and 5ghz networks multiple times. It also won't change the Mitras' hotspot name. It says it does after I save and apply but the new network name never shows in my list. It leaves the old GHLDEV name.
Tried adding the light to myGHL on my computer and after I add my ID it tells me my light's firmware isn't correct. Yet, in Control Center I did the firmware update and it says firmware up to date.
I've been building PCs for over 20 years now. I've done my share of troubleshooting, coding random things, screwing with network settings, static IP stuff, you name it. I've never dealt with a more buggy and cumbersome software experience in my life. Why does Control Center constantly freeze and say Not Responding? I noticed it does it in all the GHL videos too. Priority number 1 for GHL should be fixing that if they're going to require a hardwire USB connection for initial setup. Priority 2 should be getting rid of a hardwire setup to begin.
Sorry if I'm coming off combative or harsh. Losing over 4 hours of my Saturday just to get the light working has left a seriously sour taste in my mouth. So much so that I'm not sure it's even worth keeping the light. It definitely made me glad I went Hydros for my new build.
Ditto
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I had issues when my 2.4 and 5mhz network shared the same SID and password on a nighthawk router. I separated the two and have not had any issues since.
There is a known issue with the existing beta GCC software and the USB driver on windows 10. What version are you using?
Your not coming of combative or harsh I also understand where your coming from 20+ IT person also
There is a known issue with the existing beta GCC software and the USB driver on windows 10. What version are you using?
Your not coming of combative or harsh
I also understand where your coming from 20+ IT person also
rtparty
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I had issues when my 2.4 and 5mhz network shared the same SID and password on a nighthawk router. I separated the two and have not had any issues since.
There is a known issue with the existing beta GCC software and the USB driver on windows 10. What version are you using?
Your not coming of combative or harsh
I have them as 2 different names. One has _5G at the end.
I downloaded three different CC versions. The beta, the current and the previous. The beta is the one that finally worked.
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