Lani LED is finally here!!

[A. grandis]

For you LED lovers...
This is something that could change your game!
I'll let you enjoy yourselves with the article!


"The Lani LED is finally available for purchase after nearly four years of being featured in the pages of Reef Builders. It’s quite interesting that the Lani LED is what first drew our attention to Triton Labs, which has now taken the world by storm with ICP Testing and super high quality reef aquarium supplements.

The Lani LED went through a very long incubation period, for a while it went through a number of iterations, and it was unclear which fixture was going see the light of day, if at all. We raved about the unibody Lani LED that we saw at InterZoo over two years ago.

It turns out that unibody fixture was prohibitively expensive due to the intensive machining process, and so it has returned to an aluminum-framed, extruded heatsink design. But the Lani LED has retained the essence of its LED design, with a field of diodes creating a highly uniform light field.

The blanket of light created by the Lani LED is arguably one of the best for SPS corals, illuminating three dimensional branching SPS corals as naturally as you would find in nature. This LED recipe has yielded one of the nicest LED reef tanks we’ve ever seen, the show tank of Triton with its abundance of stony corals and very fast growth.

The Lani LED is available in two versions, the standard Lani with three colors and three channels of control, and the Lani Pro with double the color and control channels. The Lani is quite stripped down in spectrum, with just blue, white and UV for LEDs, and it starts at 599€ for the 20 x 20 cm fixture, 749€ for the 20 x 40cm, and 999€ for the large original 40 x 40cm.

The Lani PRO is equipped with blue, royal blue, cyan, green, white, & UV and it is priced at 659€, 899€ and 1369€ for the same sizes as the regular Lani. This translates to about $1500 for a 15″ square light fixture which no doubt produces a very uniform light field, but a lot to ask for a light with no red or warm white color to balance out all that blue color.

What is more concerning is that we know that the light is controllable, but previously this controller was an additional cost, and it is unknown if the controller is also programmable. The newly launched Lani website does make mention of a Lani Cloud but there is no further information on what this feature entails.

We’ve been enamored with the unique design of the Lani LED since it first popped up n our radar. But now that it’s finally ready for public sale, it’s going to have to deliver some serious features and exceptionally great light intensity and color to justify that stratospheric pricing. [LANI]

FROM:
https://reefbuilders.com/2016/10/31/lani-led-finally-available-for-purchase/

This is so you don't think I hate you!"
Aloha, my friends.
Grandis.

 

[eg8r210]

I like the idea, not a big fan of the price.

 

[A. grandis]

Looks cry much like T5s...
Take a look at some of the details of the fixture...
They were pretty happy when making this video:

Grandis.

 

[A. grandis]

And... a show tank!
Grandis.

 

[locito277]

Now if only they took that down and put T5 instead lol

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Totally confused man. You've been slamming leds for weeks and completely refuting thier use in aquaria and now this.
No clue what this is.
Mind boggled to suddenly get this full blown pr sales pitch on a high priced fixture. from you.
Is this a game?
Not looking not watching.
Don't bait people and pull this on them.

 

[Opus]

Do I understand this correctly? That is over $10k in lights over the tank?

 

[A. grandis]

Totally confused man. You've been slamming leds for weeks and completely refuting thier use in aquaria and now this.
No clue what this is.
Mind boggled to suddenly get this full blown pr sales pitch on a high priced fixture. from you.
Is this a game?
Not looking not watching.
Don't bait people and pull this on them.

No, everything I've said about LEDs I stand for, of course.
This is really just to keep you informed of the lights you are using.
Just so you don't think I hate you guys. Really!
I don't sell anything!
Hope you have fun watching the videos and learning more about that fixture.
By the way, the show tank is just to show and sell the lights/equipments as you will find out.

Grandis.

 

[bif24701]

Totally confused man. You've been slamming leds for weeks and completely refuting thier use in aquaria and now this.
No clue what this is.
Mind boggled to suddenly get this full blown pr sales pitch on a high priced fixture. from you.
Is this a game?
Not looking not watching.
Don't bait people and pull this on them.

All good questions, strange.

 

[A. grandis]

All good questions, strange.

LOL!
I am your friend! No bad feelings!
Please don't provoke me, or... I'll tell you that those guys are just trying to imitate a T5 fixture. Haha!!
This thread is for you guys... I'm out of here!

Grandis.

 

[gus6464]

LEDs on plastic optics suck, nothing new there. Blanketing an entire area with diodes and running them in low power (~1 watt so efficiency is highest) is the European way of designing fixtures. Americans like their pucks on optics. The Lani way among other brands is using LED to mimic T5. Taking a puck design and putting it over a big reflector is using LED to mimic MH. I am still waiting for an LED light to use a tightly packed puck with a giant reflector. Kessil AP700 is the beginning of that but I want something like this:

That is a Ledil Angela reflector. It is a 120mm unit. There is a blueacro puck behind that beast.

 

[A. grandis]

Oh man...
Here we go again!
Leave them alone, gus!! LOL!!

Grandis.

 

[reefwiser]

Lani is nice but you need a bunch of them to cover the tank as that is how it is designed. It gives you a wide light field buy again cost's a ton of money to do it right.

 

[eg8r210]

Totally confused man. You've been slamming leds for weeks and completely refuting thier use in aquaria and now this.

I think this is common mis-perception when someone hears something they don't like. In the LED thread he said multiple times that LEDs will work just fine growing coral and coloring up coral. Most LED people skip past the part that they agree with and focus on the part they don't agree with. What I have heard Grandi say more than once is that LEDs work, but in his mind just not as efficiently as T5 or even better MH.

 

[bif24701]

I would like to see more information on this light, hopefully there will be some good reviews at some point. Not going to tear me away from my Kessils. I'm very happy with them at the moment.

 

[gus6464]

Lani is nice but you need a bunch of them to cover the tank as that is how it is designed. It gives you a wide light field buy again cost's a ton of money to do it right.

How is that different than every single other LED light out there?

 

[Paul B]

Do I understand this correctly? That is over $10k in lights over the tank?

For that money, I will pack up my tank and bring it to the beach in Hawaii and put it out in the sunlight while I sip a Pina Colada.

 

[reefwiser]

Its a grid of LED's that hook together instead of puck's in away it is similar to the Phillips lighting system. An in the same price range.
Grids of lights covering the whole tank.

 

[karm40]

I was really excited about this when I saw it two years ago. But, it was two years ago and the price is ludicrous.

 

[gus6464]

Its a grid of LED's that hook together instead of puck's in away it is similar to the Phillips lighting system. An in the same price range.
Grids of lights covering the whole tank.

So once again how is that different than needing a bunch of radions or hydras or whatever to cover a tank properly?

And a Philips Coralcare is cheaper than a Radion and has more coverage.