I don't think much has changed inside the cabinet in quite a long time.
I did retrofit my Giesemann T5 by adding 2 Reefbrite XHO. They pretty much fit perfectly into the fixture.
It was an 8 bulb fixture, so I was hoping that it would just be simple to remove 2 bulbs and replace them with the xhos. So we got all the bulbs out and stripped off the reflectors, a little dusty on the inside.
I wanted to do a config like:
2 bulbs
Xho
2 bulbs
Xho
2 bulbs
So we had to cut down the reflectors to 2 wide each and sand them smooth so I don’t end up cutting myself down the road.
Luckily, maybe, the reefbrites weren’t too hard to mount roughly where we thought they should fit. The only extra thing was drilling a couple holes for the xho brackets to sit a little off of the top to keep the air flowing through the fixture.
Put the reflector back in and fired up half of the fixture to make sure it did indeed still work haha
A little rinse and repeat on the other side and voila: t5/led hybrid.
A little hole in the back (on the left) for the two reefbrite power cords and it all got wrapped up.
A good afternoon.
