Radion leds with acros?
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Tyler Collinske
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Well there are some factors coming in. Radion dare powerful lights some times to intense. So depending on the percentage you are running , your tank depth and how high your rock is stacked. What I did was place high in my tank and then depending on how it did I either moved it down or turned the lights up some. I'm running SPS LPS and soft in y reef with the XR15 G4 and I'm running the coral colors SPS PHX14 settings turned up a little.
BoomCorals
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It totally depends on how close the acros are to your lights. No one can really give you the right answer. Plus some acros can be smashed with light while others will fry under the same light. You need to learn to read your corals, and look up specifics about placement for each acro species you choose.
Well there are some factors coming in. Radion dare powerful lights some times to intense. So depending on the percentage you are running , your tank depth and how high your rock is stacked. What I did was place high in my tank and then depending on how it did I either moved it down or turned the lights up some. I'm running SPS LPS and soft in y reef with the XR15 G4 and I'm running the coral colors SPS PHX14 settings turned up a little.
So your side slide shows 100% does that mean your are 100%? I'm running mine at 65% and have a 72gal bow front. At moment they are on drag rack at top.
Tyler Collinske
Active Member
Ok ya the cellphone app is great but you can't fine tune your radions output. Go on your computer and got to Ecosmartlive.com and use the same log on as you do your phone app and you can change and edit soooo much more of the reef programs
Tyler Collinske
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And personally I changed mine to where it started out a slightly higher percentaged and dropped a little bit through out the day so my SPS got some bright light but my LPS and Zoas didn't fry.
You can adjust your programs brightness by clicking and holding the blue max point and dragging it up to your desired out put. And when you nous over the blue dot you will see the radions true out put and on the left you will see what your programs out put is.
Ok ya the cellphone app is great but you can't fine tune your radions output. Go on your computer and got to Ecosmartlive.com and use the same log on as you do your phone app and you can change and edit soooo much more of the reef programs
Ok cool so like in your pic are your lights actually at 100% or 74%?
Tyler Collinske
Active Member
Well the program is at 100% but my lights are running at 74%
Tyler Collinske
Active Member
And personally I changed mine to where it started out a slightly higher percentaged and dropped a little bit through out the day so my SPS got some bright light but my LPS and Zoas didn't fry.
You can adjust your programs brightness by clicking and holding the blue max point and dragging it up to your desired out put. And when you nous over the blue dot you will see the radions true out put and on the left you will see what your programs out put is.
Also I selected the SPS PHX 14 now not the LPS one
Pandy
Active Member
The way it works from my understanding is:
To get the light running at 100% every channel must be on 100% within the programme, and the overall intensity must be on 100%
Example 1:
Overall intensity set to 100%
Blue channel set to 100% within the programme
White channel set to 75% within the programme
This means that blues are running at 100% of 100% overall (100%), but whites are only running at 75% of 100% overall (75%)
Example 2:
Overall intensity set to 50%
Blue channel set to 100% within the programme
White channel set to 75% within the programme
This means that blues are running at 100% of 50% overall (50%), but whites are only running at 75% of 50% overall (37.5%) - therefore a much lower percentage is shown
To get the light running at 100% every channel must be on 100% within the programme, and the overall intensity must be on 100%
Example 1:
Overall intensity set to 100%
Blue channel set to 100% within the programme
White channel set to 75% within the programme
This means that blues are running at 100% of 100% overall (100%), but whites are only running at 75% of 100% overall (75%)
Example 2:
Overall intensity set to 50%
Blue channel set to 100% within the programme
White channel set to 75% within the programme
This means that blues are running at 100% of 50% overall (50%), but whites are only running at 75% of 50% overall (37.5%) - therefore a much lower percentage is shown
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Tyler Collinske
Active Member
Every tank is different, coral Types , depth and placement so finding the right light setting takes a bit. You have to fine tune your lights to your corals for the best results take some time and tinkering. And then being careful to acclimate accordingly but once you find that sweet spot you are good just always that in between period. So what I recommend is trying out some pre made settings and the one that works best for ya and fine tune it on the computer to maximize the results.
