Orphek icon schedule program

[-paul-]

What program is everyone running with there Orpheks
Anyone running the helius schedule if so how have uses found it to be

Thanks
Paul

 

[-paul-]

Anyone

 

[Pickle_soup]

Anyone

Do you have the bars or Atlantiks.

 

[-paul-]

Atlantic icon new model

 

[-paul-]

Will be sps dominated tank

 

[Pickle_soup]

Will be sps dominated tank

Then I can't help you. I have bars and helius doesn't work on them really. Each bar is a single channel. But my blues start ramping up from 5 a.m. and have them close the day at 9:30. They are super dim at the start and day. Almost like lunar lights. Days are start up at 8 and are completely out by 7:45 p.m.. Blues stay consistent through the day at 40% max. Days lights ramp up to 80% peaking at 2 p.m. It's pretty much a bell-curve on the days, more of a plateau on blues.

 

[-paul-]

Ok maybe someone else can help who’s running them and share some information on them can’t really find anything on the helius program what it’s performs like

 

[Yazannreef]

I can share. I have 3 Atlantic over my 72" long as I dialed them in for par and performance. I get 500par peak mid day when white are on on top rock work and 200 on the bare bottom. Tank is 29" tall

Here is my schedule:

 

[Yazannreef]

Here is the break down of the schedule with the data points

 

[-paul-]

Thanks for sharing this with me I have started to run helius schedule at the min it’s not far off yours by look of it uses more white than you do tho this is mine

Take it your tank is sps dominant that’s some impressive par reading your getting I have not checked mine yet what par metre did you use been thinking of getting one for a wile now

How have you found the light to be are you happy with them

Thanks
Paul

 

[Yazannreef]

Thanks for sharing this with me I have started to run helius schedule at the min it’s not far off yours by look of it uses more white than you do tho this is mine

Take it your tank is sps dominant that’s some impressive par reading your getting I have not checked mine yet what par metre did you use been thinking of getting one for a wile now

How have you found the light to be are you happy with them

Thanks
Paul

Yes I run an sps dominant tank. I use Parwise spectrometer for par.

The light are amazing!!!

I would decrease the whites if I were you.

 

[-paul-]

My whites start off at 40% then ramp up to 80% at max but all my Chanel’s are on the same percent also my blues never go to 100%
Am just running there preset schedule but I couldn’t find any information about if anyone else is running it

Am thinking of add a sky blue bar to my lights also

 

[Gman83]

I dont have a SPS dominant tank, but here is how I run my lights:

I dont have a par meter, but would love to see some readings to know what these babies could crank out, give or take depth.

 

[Reign1]

Thanks for sharing this with me I have started to run helius schedule at the min it’s not far off yours by look of it uses more white than you do tho this is mine

Take it your tank is sps dominant that’s some impressive par reading your getting I have not checked mine yet what par metre did you use been thinking of getting one for a wile now

How have you found the light to be are you happy with them

Thanks
Paul

Nice !! How high do you have them mounted on the 29" deep (tall) aquarium? Mine is the same depth.

 

[-paul-]

Is there a reason why you say have less whites
Orphek say them have done lots of research into this schedule that’s comes has preset but is this just marketing thing there doing with has I can’t find anyone who’s running a tank using there preset schedule we’re when I was running radions there was lots of information about there ab schedule and I had amazing success using it but wanted a change on this new set so went with Orpheks but I was surprise on how little information there was out over theses lights and how people seem to rave about how good they are

 

[-paul-]

??

 

[Yazannreef]

Sorry for the late response.
I don't ran less whites since that's what attracts algae and all kind of nasty.
Also I enjoy more of actinic look with channel 3. When I turned everything to %80 my par uptop was hitting 800 par

 

[-paul-]

That’s some high par
How long have you been running the lights

 

[Yazannreef]

4 months now

 

[TruckerAquarist]

4 months now

Hi, do you still run this schedule in March 2024?
I'm afraid to run my actinic/UV channels so high. I run them about halfway currently.

But I was wondering how are your SPS doing? Colour and all. Can you post a pic?