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Nothing over $300! Are we in the same hobby!
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itd be nice to see how accurate it is in comparison. And call me when the Apogee needs re homing. I have a lot of other lighting meters to keep it company.If your serious about growing corals and are dedicated to using halides or t5 then I would for see no reason not to justify spending $300 on a meter to accurately test output. I use my par meter to check my halides and t5 lights for I guess you could say hotspots and to see when I need to switch out bulbs when the par drops under a certain level.
There are a few companies that make ones now that attach to your phones and work great and are much cheaper I will be retiring my apogee here soon for one.
yep.Nothing over $300! Are we in the same hobby!
Haha agreed!yep.
just not at the same store.
Its not about want to. Cant.I agree on most people not wanting to spend the money on a meter, but I would also think that those same people probably are not in the hobby enough to care or even know what par is.....
I have been in the hobby for years I help start MASNA and our club has held 4 MACNA's. I like robe forward thinking and spend a lot of time learning new technologies in the hobby. It's what I do for a living and for fun. [emoji3] I calibrate inspection lighting at work for people doing quality checks so I have had training in color cast testing. Lighting is a changing market in a very few years we will find MH and T5 not available due changing EPA regulations. As we are seeing now with basic light bulbs try finding a 120 watt light bulb. Sanjay just posted his thoughts on LED's after using them for 2 years now.
https://www.facebook.com/sanjay.joshi.792/posts/10154222777700329
Didn't mean that in any personal attack, just saying without having a par meter I wouldn't waste time trying to test light output or even worrying about it in terms of numbers.
Lux is basically light used and seen by the human eye where are par is the amount of radiation that the light is putting off and will be available to corals.
For example test an incandescent bulb up close it will test high but there is no chance of growing a coral under it successfully.
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Lux is basically light used and seen by the human eye where are par is the amount of radiation that the light is putting off and will be available to corals.
For example test an incandescent bulb up close it will test high but there is no chance of growing a coral under it successfully.
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