anyone have this light yet

[reeflife75g]

 

[Caseyoidae]

No, but i'm following along Bump!

 

[Jason Jones]

I was at my LFS yesterday when the hydor rep brought a light in to play with.
The spread was Ok and par numbers with blues only was respectable.
Our numbers were as follows. 6” from the water in a 16” deep tank, blue and violet channel only 224 par at crossover, 160 par on the width edge of the fixture, 64 par 5.5” from the width edge 51 par 6” from the length edge.
All channels 100% the numbers were 288, 198,102, 88 respective the above tests.

The rep did mention that a previous customer had got the light wet so that might have effected the numbers, but these were our test results.

Also this was one of the first run Chinese lights, he indicated that the next run will be made in Italy.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Those numbers would work for a softy tank. The water on the light story sounds funny and not truthful to me.

 

[Jason Jones]

Those numbers would work for a softy tank. The water on the light story sounds funny and not truthful to me.

That was my thought but I figured I would disclose what he said
Also I was not a fan of the included hanging kit. It is monofilament fishing line with a crimp on one end. If you wanted to mount in. A hybrid fixture or to a rack you would have to use very thin bolts and through bolt it.
At least they included one but I would have liked to see something a little nicer.
I was told map will be 449 and tank mount bracket will be 99

 

[reeferfoxx]

Yikes. For that price two AI primes or a radion XR15 would provide more light.

 

[Jason Jones]

That was my thought.
I run Radion with T5 on both my systems and was more impressed with the Radion 15 over this light.
She does have a very nice blue color but imo they miss3d the mark at the price point they are at.
The transformer was a small plastic Chinese transformer as well, the light was constructed nicely though.

 

[reeflife75g]

What about hydra 52