Lumentek Fusion 360 from Reef Radiance

Tphill · Nov 2, 2014

Does anyone have this light? I cannot seem to find a % for the channels that I'm happy with. Would you mind posting your lighting schedule? Currently at max intensity mine is as follows:
Channel 1 14%
Channel 2 14%
Channel 3 56%
Channel 4 56%
Channel 5 0%

I ramp up the channels in 1% increments on Channel's 1&2 and 4% on Channel's 3&4 every 10 minutes till peak, they stay at peak for 4 hours, then ramp back down the same as the ramp up. Channel 5, the moonlights come on a few minutes before the rest go off at only 10%, that's as high as they go without flickering, then they ramp down over 90 minutes.

I don't run Channel 5 because on 1 side of my fixture the three moonlights flicker. This is over a 4' 120 gallon, the bottom of the fixture is 14" above the water surface. According to my seneye Reef's light meter, par on the bottom center of tank is 90-100, and about midway up center, where most of my sps are, is 190-200. The meter does not give me a kelvin reading (not enough in the red spectrum maybe?). I'm not sure about the accuracy of this light meter, but for relative numbers it will work.

All in all I'm not happy with this light at all, but it's what I have and I'd like to try and make it work.

Thanks

Bow · Nov 2, 2014

Have you let them know about the flicker? How long have you had the light?

REEF RADIANCE · Nov 2, 2014

Tphill,

Have you contacted us regarding this issue? The last thing I would want is for a customer to " try to make it work " especially on a light as nice as this.

Rick

Tphill · Nov 3, 2014

Bow, I've had the light since the first part of August.

Rick, I have not contacted you regarding the flickering issue because I assumed the only way to fix it would be to send the light back in, and that isn't an option. I have tried to contact you about the % to try and achieve a specific kelvin.
The flickering of the moonlights is not really the reason for my statement about not being happy with this light. The main reason is because I cannot achieve the look I want, so far. This is what I really need help with. I raised the % of Channel 3 yesterday from being the same as Channel's 1&2 to being the same as Channel 4. I did this because the seneye light meter's graph showed that there was no light in the red end of the spectrum. This helped the graph look better. Also, why does the light meter say I have no Kelvin rating? It had the same reading under my t-5 fluorescent fixture also.
Just looking for help getting to the 14-16K look. Thanks.