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Have LED lights even been available for reef tanks for 10 years? I was still using MH in 2008, and don't recall LEDs as an option ,,,,, but maybe the memory is flawed. Also, early reef LEDs tended to be white/blue, which quickly proved insufficient, so most got replaced before they got old. Finally, the diodes themselves may well last 10 years (to the L70 point) but supporting electronics may not. I have a few Kessil spots that are 4 years old; otherwise everything else is newer than that.
Yeah. I didn't know how far back to do the poll.I could be wrong ( getting old and the memory isn't like it used to be), but I think my first led fixture was in 2011.
A Reef Breeders value fixture.
That same year I won a Radion XR30 at my LFS's raffle.
The next year bought 3 Radion XR30's
Have LED lights even been available for reef tanks for 10 years? I was still using MH in 2008, and don't recall LEDs as an option ,,,,, but maybe the memory is flawed. Also, early reef LEDs tended to be white/blue, which quickly proved insufficient, so most got replaced before they got old. Finally, the diodes themselves may well last 10 years (to the L70 point) but supporting electronics may not. I have a few Kessil spots that are 4 years old; otherwise everything else is newer than that.
I remember those Polaris fixtures.Polaris LED which was made by PFO was the first reef led fixture. I believe it came out around 2008. It was definitely after 2006 because that was the first year I was really into the hobby and I remember (vaguely) these things coming out. They were supposed to be the equivalent of a 250w halide and were not very impressive in real life despite being really expensive.