Following along. I want new lights and was wondering about black box. The big name brand lights are way out of my price range. Thank you.
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Thank you so much @Fritzhamer .Very excited to see how this study progresses.
I think i would like to see the following so people can get an idea of quality.
How much heatsink what type is it adequete
Passive or active cooling
type and mix of led
PAR readings you have covered.
Overall construction build quality
lens angle and realistic coverage.
Visual look I know this is subjective but is it full spectrum in some ways its easy to provide enough PAR for corals but does it look good to the user. Many budget units have a very grainy look as they miss parts of the spectrum or are low CRI.
Connectivity and does the app work or keep crashing
That should cover a lot of key areas
It’s a very interesting and complex idea. Will you match PAR on each coral? That is lower intensity of some fixtures or dim them so the PAR is the same as that could have more impact that the fixtures themselves and would only be related to the size and only show that more PAR is better for some corals. Then how about the PUR, will you look at that at all using a senseye perhaps?
Which leads into the next question of spectrum. Are you doing to run all channels equally? I fear this could become a “what spectrum grows coral best” over fixture review. Many of these run quite white, more than many people prefer, so how will you handle that? Attempt to match PAR and spectrum closely as possible on the coral? Fixture 1 might outperform fixture 2, but if #1 is really white it becomes a question of is that fixture better or was the more white light better and would fixture 2 have done as well if turned down the blues (or up the whites) and what does it matter since no one will run fixture 1 that white?
Just food for thought.
Those are well known lights and have been regarded as some of the best to come from China. They are a bit pricey but the original Evergrow would nice to test https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...spm=a2700.details.maylikehoz.4.8c8f7edfpeWrQ4Very interested in this.
I'm running the Reef Breeder's Photon V2 and consider it to be a very strong competitor to the AI Hydras as it uses nearly all the same exact LED's they use.
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Just got through talking with Matt from The Coral Reef and Sustainable Aquatics here in Tn., He has invited me down to his facility so we can use some of his already plumbed together systems, or make more for our study!!!
This is an awesome gesture that I can't refuse as it meets a lot of what we want to test about these lights.
I t seems my weekend will be spent away from home messing with some lights ;Drool
I will take lots of pics!!!;Snaphappy