According to this it has white..
Please excuse my extreme ignorance when it comes to electronics and lights. That’s why I’m asking for help. (I’m a retired criminal defense attorney and went to law school to avoid engineering classes—though I know a little about colors from my photoshop and photo printing hobby days). What do diodes have to do with it? Looks like the light sources (6 bunches of them each with 4 “bulbs”, each have a white bulb made up of a red, blue, green and yellow “diode”(?) according to the Blue specs posted. The adjustment board shows the RGBY “diodes”(?) can be separately adjusted? Other “bulbs besides the “white” one show shades of blue and violet. I’ll have to examine them and compare them with the specs that were posted. Thanks for this thinking exercise…my brain is going to new places!
It’s beginning to make sense!!! Hurray!!! The knot between my shoulder blades is relaxing!!! Thank you so much! I’ve been sick with frustration over my ignorance and need to rely blindly on others! I wake up in the morning and get hung up with the tank and can’t do anything else! It’s for my grandson who is only 6.5 and is autistic, but that’s not the point! “Why” has nothing to do with “How”, except it’s a reason not to throw up my hands and quit! And actually, I’m kinda getting into it myself.According to this it has white..
Some channels have mixed diode colors. Don't know what goes where atm.
You have warm whites (assume "yellow" channel) but no cool whites.
Looks like in the reg model royal blie cool white are on the same channel.
So it looks like the six light sources each have 4 bulbs made of 4 diodes. Some bulbs are made up of 4 same-color diodes and each light source has a white bulb made up of a red, green, blue and yellow diode.
So I’ve examined them and can’t figure out how the other bulb colors are created. E.g., ultraviolet is the name of a bulb color, but the only adjustment is for violet, it’s the same with blue. Can’t tell what diodes the different colored blue bulbs are made of and anyway, there is only one “blue” adjustment lever. So that’s still a mystery and I don’t know what my corals need anyway. I’ll think about that red setting. Though my tank is clearer than ever, I’ve still got diatoms on my walls like crazy.
Not confusing at all—enlightening, in fact. Whew. So that’s how it works and each us adjustable with its own adjudmebt lever. Hmmm. Wonder why that is? It won’t be “white” anymore if the relative levels are changed with the adjustment levers, correct!Not to confuse you but there are " bulbs" that actually have bulblets...
According to the diagram they have red,green,blue,warm white all in one bulb.
Each can be separately controlled with this particular " bulb"
Your bulb is the center square.
Ignore the star circuit board.
Sooo your 4 are actual 7 colors ..
That’s what I hear. My tank is only going on 4 months old. The brown hairy stage is over and green algae is popping up. Just those miserable diatoms…. But I need to know about light diatoms or no. Life depends on the sun and I have a need to understand so I can do the best job possible to keep my little menagerie healthy. My palythoa already lost huge amounts of its zooxanthellae—so also with some zoanthids I have. I think the diatoms have stained/permeated some of the corals and I’m hoping that will go away too when the diatom stage is over, if it ever will be.
So how do I know what the “intensity” is? People say “increase the intensity” orThere are six rgbww diodes. One for each cluster.
All the other diodes are single "color".
Ok. I think I’m getting the hang of it. So, assuming intensity is measured by the sum of percentages for each color in the spectrum, I modified my setting to equal the same sum as the original settings, but now I have less red, blue and green (the colors I understand algae thrive in) and way more soft white. With so much white the brown diatoms floating around in the water show up a bit brown, but if that continues, I’ll up the sky blue and lessen the soft white. I want to see what tomorrow brings after a night of filtration. I’ll feed lightly if at all. Here is the new setting. Now I know this may not be what the corals would prefer—I understand they like blue, but I have no idea what colors my ideal light would include and at what proportions and intensity.According to this it has white..
Some channels have mixed diode colors. Don't know what goes where atm.
You have warm whites (assume "yellow" channel) but no cool whites.
Looks like in the reg model royal blie and cool white are on the same channel.
Yes, that’s what I feared. All colors are not the same intensity—my own eyes tell me that. However, I was hoping the percentages were adjusted to keep intensity in mind. I haven’t seen such a lever in my app: doesn’t mean there isn’t one. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
Yea, can't guarantee there is one.
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