What are your favorite "best Value" LED's?

[cvrle1]

@acer I would give you feedback, but dont want to do it in this thread and derail it. Perhaps staring your thread in the Light forum would get you more responses. Good price for both though.

 

[SDK]

Whats the coupon?- I thought you could not combine.

Edit: Your right SliceGolfer - so now my cart is $593 for the Photon 50 V2+ - that is a good deal. I finally got the code correct for the Noopsynce and now that cart is correct at the $575. Confirmed free shipping on both. will pull the trigger on one of these today or tomorrrow.

Can you let me know where I can find the Noopsyche coupon code you are referring to?

 

[Waboss]

OK - black Friday has begun/announced: Noopsync's are 15% off and Reefbreeders are 10% off. So for my 60 inch long x 24 front to back x 24 deep, 150 gallon mixed reef I am looking at:

Option #1) 4 K7 pro II's with one controller = $677 - 15%= $575. Each K7 is 95 watts each = 380 total max watts and comes with a 1 year warranty.

Option #2) Reefbreeder photon 50 V2+ = $715 -10% - $50 coupon= $595. The fixture says max wattage is 240 and it has a 2 year warranty with shipping covered both ways on them.

Of note: neither option has wifi programming, both have free shipping, the K7's are more versitile if someday I decide to switch tank setup, the photon will be much easier to program = only one fixture.

********opinions wanted****************

You only have to program once even with 4 K7's, once they're linked (which is easy), you just use the controller and it programs all your lights.

 

[cvrle1]

Lots of lights discussed so far, so here is a consolidated list of the ones that fit the OPs criteria (in order they were posted):

Noopsyche K7 Pro II
Noopsyche 1802 Hybrid
Reefbreeders Photon V2/V2+
SB Reef Lights (gone belly up, may be able to find some around)
ReeFi Duo
RedSea REEFLED
Current Marine units* (0.5W LEDs, only good for really shallow tanks and low light corals)
Aquaticlife Cetus 2
Lominie Pixie 30
Redsea Reefspec
Euroquatics Angel A1P (gone belly up, but still able to purchase)
Maxspect RazorX
RapidLED Corona
Coral Box Moon LED

i did not include AIs and Radions, even though they were mentioned, as they are not considered budget lights really.

 

[Bpb]

Lots of lights discussed so far, so here is a consolidated list of the ones that fit the OPs criteria (in order they were posted):

Noopsyche K7 Pro II
Noopsyche 1802 Hybrid
Reefbreeders Photon V2/V2+
SB Reef Lights (gone belly up, may be able to find some around)
ReeFi Duo
RedSea REEFLED
Current Marine units* (0.5W LEDs, only good for really shallow tanks and low light corals)
Aquaticlife Cetus 2
Lominie Pixie 30
Redsea Reefspec
Euroquatics Angel A1P (gone belly up, but still able to purchase)
Maxspect RazorX
RapidLED Corona
Coral Box Moon LED

i did not include AIs and Radions, even though they were mentioned, as they are not considered budget lights really.

Reef fi are in the same price category as radions and AI. Better made. Highly recommended. But they’re among the highest priced units on the market

 

[Devaji]

Whats the coupon?- I thought you could not combine.

Edit: Your right SliceGolfer - so now my cart is $593 for the Photon 50 V2+ - that is a good deal. I finally got the code correct for the Noopsynce and now that cart is correct at the $575. Confirmed free shipping on both. will pull the trigger on one of these today or tomorrrow.

I am in the same boat not doing SPS so was only thinking of 3 K7 or the 50" v2

 

[acer]

@acer I would give you feedback, but dont want to do it in this thread and derail it. Perhaps staring your thread in the Light forum would get you more responses. Good price for both though.

yep- I started a thread over in the lighting - sorry I didnt mean to hijack- well kind of - I thought it was relavant to the discussion by the OP.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

I’m gonna get booed off the stage if I say. Lol

I also have a $43 blue cree light that was meant for emergency vehicles on my 50 gallon naughty clownfish jail. The irony of that just occurred to me.

This is awesome!!

 

[MikeyG]

A lot of the black boxes can be controlled via reef-pi. It may not be for everyone, as it is very much DIY project, but it is an option that for some might be very good and budged friendly.

Some of the SB Reef lights have features that you listed, however I heard rumor that they went under.
Noopsyche K7 have great reviews but for bigger tanks, not sure if they are cost effective. You would 3-4+ units (depending on what you want to keep)
Reefbreeders Photon V2/V2+ would probably be best bang for the buck for bigger tanks

Kessil A360x is the way to go for $350 each and $99 for the new WiFi dongle. Good thing is 1 dongle can control.up to 32 lamps.
Simply cannot beat the 2ft by 2ft spread even when hung from as low as 10inc above the water. Not the mention the blender spectrum and not the disc ball effect associated with other LED fixtures.

 

[Crabs McJones]

The Hydra 26s get my vote, I'd really love to get my hands on some of the new 32s

 

[Shooter6]

Ledzeal.com malibu series (discontinued) but replaced with the new mirage series 350.00ish
Rapidled.com corona 375.00
Jeabo AL150 275.00-400.00 depending on seller.

 

[Shooter6]

Corona by Rapid LED

Affordable LED Lighting for Growers and Makers. Build your own high quality LED lights using name brand parts at an affordable price. Minimal knowledge required.

www.rapidled.com

 

[Shooter6]

Jebao AL150 LED Lighting

Jebao AL150 LED Lighting

m.fish-street.com

 

[Shooter6]

Ledzeal malibu s400. 5ft light over a 6ft 180gal.
Cost me 600.00 shipped to my door with custom layout .

 

[cvrle1]

Kessil A360x is the way to go for $350 each and $99 for the new WiFi dongle. Good thing is 1 dongle can control.up to 32 lamps.
Simply cannot beat the 2ft by 2ft spread even when hung from as low as 10inc above the water. Not the mention the blender spectrum and not the disc ball effect associated with other LED fixtures.

Plenty of other lights out there that offer 2' x 2' spread from 10 inches up for quite a bit less money. And yes, they will grow anything as good as Kessil would.

 

[Treenk]

The hydra 26s are so cheap right now idk why you would go with anything else. 225 for new light I think is what you can get them for on the classifieds

Where are they 225? I was about to get the 16 for 210... is the 26 too much light for a 29g biocube

 

[hotdrop]

Where are they 225? I was about to get the 16 for 210... is the 26 too much light for a 29g biocube

Check the R2R classifieds they we’re gonna sale around bf as well. Might have sold out for the most part due to discontinued inventory. The 26 isn’t too much light you will be able to grow sps in the upper 12” sweet spot but not much past that. The only real issue with it is that the intensity is really concentrated in the middle and you get shadowing so 2 primes would be better but cost more. If I had to do it again I wouldn’t buy leds and go T5 but if I had to get leds id definitely buy it again.

 

[Reefs of Space]

These Macegrow lights look pretty decent. Kind of like a double Hipargero, but fully controllable. I've seen them cheaper than what the manufacturer has them priced at.

Dimmable Timer Control 78w Saltwater Reef Light with uv Full Spectrum for Hard SPS Lps Coral Reef – MaceGrow

www.macegrow.com

 

[van7271]

I would suggest Current Orbit. Lots of features and descent light output. Have used them dependably on a 55 gal tank with softies and lps for over 7 years now. Only thing I had to replace was the transformer last year. Still going strong.

 

[Ayzel1]

AI Primes or Hydra26. Love their app and the way you can sync multiples with the same program of your liking without a dongel. I run 2 primes and I will add a 3th to my t5 fixture on my 120g.