Question about LED lighting??

barndtman84 · Apr 21, 2012

If anyone can help me on 2 ?? i have both about LED's just not the same topic beyond that.. Ok well my first question is about well first i have over my 90gal reef 2 sep blue Reef 120watt LED fixtures these have i believe 2watt LED's 14K white and blue but these didnt come with dimmers just on/off for each color now when these first came out they were $500 a pop now i paid $400 a pop and now they still go for $250+ and i wanted to know if the ebay ones that range from $150-$300 and the ones with actual specs and the excree LED's not the no info shady ones well are they better then the ones i have? or even close cuz my corals in my 90gal look huge and very colorful which i also think is partially cuz i have a nice DIY custom built 30gal refugium.. And i would love to buy a newer one with dimmers built in and just sell the ones i have but idk how reliable the new ones are..
Second question is how long can you run a DE metal halide 150watt well 2 bulbs in a corallife fixture without any UV/temp glass for shielding. Now i lost like 20 sps frags due to lack of my MH's so i just started adding in 3hrs of 14k ushio DE MH's 150watts each for only 3-4hrs a day and i had lost my glass panels which block heat/U.V. and water splashing and i was using that nice musium U.V. shielded glass but cuz it was too thin and not tempered the glass would often shatter so the fixture is 6" or more above water and its only for a few hrs a day so i figure i'm ok..any thoughts on either ??'s would be awesome..thanks

pumarjr · Apr 21, 2012

If anyone can help me on 2 ?? i have both about LED's just not the same topic beyond that.. Ok well my first question is about well first i have over my 90gal reef 2 sep blue Reef 120watt LED fixtures these have i believe 2watt LED's 14K white and blue but these didnt come with dimmers just on/off for each color now when these first came out they were $500 a pop now i paid $400 a pop and now they still go for $250+ and i wanted to know if the ebay ones that range from $150-$300 and the ones with actual specs and the excree LED's not the no info shady ones well are they better then the ones i have?

HUH? No way to know if they are better than what you have, you gave 0 information on the brands of any of the fixtures. I think that was what you were asking.

how long can you run a DE metal halide 150watt well 2 bulbs in a corallife fixture without any UV/temp glass for shielding. Now i lost like 20 sps frags due to lack of my MH's so i just started adding in 3hrs of 14k ushio DE MH's 150watts each for only 3-4hrs a day and i had lost my glass panels which block heat/U.V. and water splashing and i was using that nice musium U.V. shielded glass but cuz it was too thin and not tempered the glass would often shatter so the fixture is 6" or more above water and its only for a few hrs a day so i figure i'm ok..any thoughts on either ??'s would be awesome..thanks