ATI Straton LED Light - Comments, Review, PAR, Coverage, Discuss...

[Hydrored]

If that is an "S" or "RS" in your avatar, just be ready to budget $3,500 for rotors and pads at 40k miles. No joke. It may well be the only repair you have to make, but stopping doesn't come cheap in these cars.

It’s a 2021 RS7, I hear ya on the cost, I accepted the the cost of ownership even being warned prior to purchase :-( .I have owned a car with carbon ceramic brakes, that will make your stomach drop. Even my Jeep SRT 8 isn’t a cheap brake job unfortunately. Edit: Sorry for the off topic

 

[rtparty]

Need more pics over tanks showing off corals

I went back to halides not long ago and have no plans to ditch them any time soon. However, for my new 72*36*22 peninsula that is being built right now, I need to add a third light. The Straton constantly comes to the top of my list. $1100 plus custom mounting is a big pill to swallow when another halide is only $500 and matches my current setup. I can change bulbs over 12 times before I get to $1100. Electric usage is null in the end for me. A third halide actually helps and LEDs hurt. 66° basement after all.

 

[Hydrored]

Picked up an insanely overpriced piece of maple and stained it mocha to match the tank stand, mounted them to the board now they are all square and level with each other for the first time since installing the lights. I’ll check the par in the morning to see if anything changed since I moved them all closer to the middle to solve a bit of light spill on the ends.

 

[CK00020]

Could you take a closer pic of the mounting, that looks great!

 

[Hydrored]

HYG @CK00020

 

[Mywifeisgunnakillme]

Picked up an insanely overpriced piece of maple and stained it mocha to match the tank stand, mounted them to the board now they are all square and level with each other for the first time since installing the lights. I’ll check the par in the morning to see if anything changed since I moved them all closer to the middle to solve a bit of light spill on the ends.

Could you go with just the two end cables (ditch the middle two?) for an even cleaner look?

Looks great! Just a thought...

 

[MarkDE]

i Think im gonna change my hybrid for 2 Straton very soon . All your experience seems to be really good and you can even see it on the numbers (dbq5anlxj pictures) .
I made myself some templates to really see the size in rl . I think i cant get any more coverage haha

 

[Quiverfull]

@MarkDE what size tank is that - 2 x 2 x 4 feet?

 

[MarkDE]

47 inches long ; 20 high and Wide . Sorry i dont know how to convert Centimeters to inches and foot
Its a Reefer 350

 

[Hydrored]

Could you go with just the two end cables (ditch the middle two?) for an even cleaner look?

Looks great! Just a thought...

There is a bit of flex to the middle and honestly I was to lazy to pull out the large ladder last night. 15’ ceilings looks great but a pain in the butt. I’m good with it for now but I get your point

 

[ScottB]

HYG @CK00020

I forget. Did you fab those brackets or are they factory?

Super clean look!

 

[Hydrored]

Here are a few crappy photos from lights on this morning-

 

[Hydrored]

I forget. Did you fab those brackets or are they factory?

Super clean look!

Factory ones

 

[xabo]

@Hydrored, How high are they mounted above the waterline?

 

[Hydrored]

@Hydrored, How high are they mounted above the waterline?

9.5” from the water line to bottom of light

 

[nornicle]

Has anyone run their ATI 100% on all channels - it looks really nice but I noticed the presets really don't run any of the channels very high so I'm reticent to do 100% all channels (looks like 20k radium?)

ATI Straton analyzed in our DaniReef LAB - let's see the performance

We had the opportunity to test the new ATI Straton thanks to Jonathan that has just bought three of them for his tank. We analyzed the PAR and created the distr

www.danireef.com

I didnt notice this link here, but seems like a great analysis.

I've upped my lighting to 85% on SPS Plakativ for 6 hours (and then ramp to fluorescents on the left and right side)

 

[nornicle]

It’s a 2021 RS7, I hear ya on the cost, I accepted the the cost of ownership even being warned prior to purchase :-( .I have owned a car with carbon ceramic brakes, that will make your stomach drop. Even my Jeep SRT 8 isn’t a cheap brake job unfortunately. Edit: Sorry for the off topic

Impressive. I bought Stratons so I can't afford this, and to be honest the expense of maintaining a petrol car means I have an order in for a Model 3 Long Range

 

[rtparty]

Impressive. I bought Stratons so I can't afford this, and to be honest the expense of maintaining a petrol car means I have an order in for a Model 3 Long Range

Congrats! Best car I have ever owned.

 

[CoralClasher]

I’m running preset sps 85% max 11 inches off the water. My question is the blue lights in the morning and evening necessary for the corals or can I just ramp up to the white looking light? I don’t like the look of blue lights but if it’s better for the corals I will leave it.

 

[ScottB]

I’m running preset sps 85% max 11 inches off the water. My question is the blue lights in the morning and evening necessary for the corals or can I just ramp up to the white looking light? I don’t like the look of blue lights but if it’s better for the corals I will leave it.

IMO it is personal preference.

85% is going to push some pretty hard PAR. Have you had a chance to compare PAR to your previous fixture(s) ?