Orphek OR3 poor spread... optics upgrade?

[ReefingInMadrid]

Wow my reefbreeders cover my 210 well

No no, the evergrows are fine, i am talking about orphek's spread all the time. i am using them as a fill light for colour pop and night view, but the centre of the aquarium does not get properly lighted bc of the poor spread.

 

[atoll]

No no, the evergrows are fine, i am talking about orphek's spread all the time. i am using them as a fill light for colour pop and night view, but the centre of the aquarium does not get properly lighted bc of the poor spread.

I get better spread with my light bars angled towards my reefscape.

 

[ReefingInMadrid]

Yeah Atoll i was trying to avoid modify my light stand, as everything is packed very tight... and buying those angled add-ons means i need new bars with more space between the orpheks and the evergrows to be able to angle them... But i know its probably the best term solution.

 

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and still you get a protaction to your ayes from light split out the tank

Each LEDs has 120 degrees internal High quality Lens , so there is no problem to take out the lens .

 

[Sleepydoc]

bringing up an old thread here...
One issue with simply removing the lenses is the glass on the lights appears to be black with 'holes' for the light to pass through. With the standard lenses this isn't an issue but if you remove the lenses completely it would appear that a significant amount of the light would spread beyond the hole and hit the opaque portions of the glass. I'm not sure how getting some actual 120º lenses to replace the 90º ones would affect that.

Diffusers will always reduce your PAR somewhat. I'd be curious how well a piece of acrylic that had been sanded with high-grit sandpaper to make it frosted. (one could do this with glass, too, but it's hard to get a piece of glass that long and thin without breaking it.

 

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bringing up an old thread here...
One issue with simply removing the lenses is the glass on the lights appears to be black with 'holes' for the light to pass through. With the standard lenses this isn't an issue but if you remove the lenses completely it would appear that a significant amount of the light would spread beyond the hole and hit the opaque portions of the glass. I'm not sure how getting some actual 120º lenses to replace the 90º ones would affect that.

Diffusers will always reduce your PAR somewhat. I'd be curious how well a piece of acrylic that had been sanded with high-grit sandpaper to make it frosted. (one could do this with glass, too, but it's hard to get a piece of glass that long and thin without breaking it.

If you remove the lens and the print screen of the acrylic you will get a very wide cover and the wide 8mm acrylic will protect the light from going out to the room . And focused to the tank .