So apparently you can use a kindle to work the app and connect to the lights lol. Anyways I finally figured it out. They look sweet! Can't wait to add some new corals!
Why hung so high?! Wow! Must be lighting up the whole neighborhood-lol.
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Why hung so high?! Wow! Must be lighting up the whole neighborhood-lol.
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I have to buy more wire. It didn't come with enough. Just kind of made it work for the mean time lol
timkenagy
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I wouldn't say never.. I picture a time in the not so distant future when we get leaders with minds like Al Gore that will push to make lighting our tanks with T5 or especially MH flat out illegal.Never.lol
The LED vs MH vs T5 vs Hybrid debate will go on and on. With in each type the spectrum debate will go on and on.... Often hobbyist debate to the death over the last 1mm of growth at any cost and never accept what is simply "Good Enough" I've had T5 tanks, MH/T5 tanks and LEDs. I have had success with all of them. I currently prefer the controllability of LEDs as well as the low cost. On a large tank it's a factor for sure. To light my tank 96x42x32" with Radians would cost me a small car.
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Thanks man. Mine is a 40b, and the light is a 30" elite ramping light. It's almost 330w. I had to turn it down to 10%w and 15%b just to get a decent pic. Its incredibly bright.
i chuckled at this.
I wouldn't say never.. I picture a time in the not so distant future when we get leaders with minds like Al Gore that will push to make lighting our tanks with T5 or especially MH flat out illegal.
...but im sad because this may, very well be true.
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@SB Reef Lights, just curious how long it takes for the lights to ship out.
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I got mine in 4 days
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Glad you got the Kindle to work! Hadn't even thought about Kindle users.
The fans are controlled by a thermocouple. They turn on when the board hits 45*C
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I changed the settings so that the fans would come on at 30 C just to see if they would come on and I didn't even see or hear them come on and the temperature was over 30 C.Glad you got the Kindle to work! Hadn't even thought about Kindle users.
The fans are controlled by a thermocouple. They turn on when the board hits 45*C
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Do the fans come on when you first power up the unit? Cycle the power button, they should turn on for a few seconds then turn off. It;s possible the control wire came loose in shipping.
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Don't always expect that fast.
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Yes they come on for half a second then turn off. Then I hear nothing of them again.
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Would the sbox basic have enough power to reach the sand bed and grow a variety of corals in a 60 g cube? It is 24x24x24
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Okay so there is no issue with the connections then. Let me get some feedback from the engineer. I'll get back to you as soon as I here something.
Make sure when you changed the program to 30*C you have the light selected under "Select Devices". I have made that mistake thinking I was changing things, but had no device selected.
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Yes we run a single 16" unit over a 60g cube mixed reef at home with some SPS up top, LPS everywhere and softies on the sand. Blue channel at 75%, White at 50%, plenty of head room.
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I made sure of that too just in case. It said settings saved when I selected the device and hit save.
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Agreed. Once shipped it normally takes 3 to 5 days to your door. However it typically takes 3 to 4 days to leave the factory. Typical times have been 5 to 9 days total. However we have a 53' trailer of lights on the way to California. By the end of the month we should be able to ship 1 to 2 days after an order with 2 to 3 day delivery times.
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Do they require signature? Mines says it will be here Wednesday but I work. Can the just leave it by the door or does someone need to be there for it?
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This is what you say in your FAQ
I do doubt that Cree had Epistar make them end to end, more than likely they supplied the wafers and Epistar's fabs did the etching, but more research on that would be needed. What you say in your FAQ is a composition fallacy - even if Cree did simply contracted Epistar to produce their red dies for them end to end, that would not mean that Cree was or is using Epistar to produce all of their LEDs. As it is, nearly all of Cree's production fabs are in China, they produce only a handful of their LEDs in the US (despite receiving a $39 million tax credit in 2011 for the premise of keeping growth [and therefore jobs] in the US), but this does not mean that their LEDs do not still handily outperform Epistar's offerings both in efficiency and in phosphor tech.
On another note, did you know that Bridgelux doesn't make '3w' class LEDs in anything other than royal blue and green (and I'm not sure if green is still being produced)? They're almost exclusively sold in China for phosphor conversion by third party OEMs. The LEDs are no longer Bridgelux at that point, but obviously you still see the name used because the bigger a name you use the better it sells. The garbage white LEDs that OEMs try to pass as a 'Bridgelux' white diode are just that, garbage.
As for having 'enough' warm white, that is something that can be debated on and on and will vary by what an individual has in their reef.
Care to prove that with a watt meter?
Do you legitimately think that any reef LED fixture has enough red light to cause damage? Notice that the tests in this study were done with a minimum of 128 PAR of specifically deep red light. Even if I swapped every white, green, and red LED in the MarsAqua for warm white I would still be under 1/10 of what they were using for their tests.
In addition, 6500K metal halides are still regarded by many as the the best light for pure coral growth, and they still grow the living bajeezus out of corals.
Look at all that green and red light.
If you read closely, the deal is really for Epistar's benefit. Cree's phosphor tech is generations ahead of Epistar. Cree licensed some of their InGaN phosphor recipes to Epistar (as they have done for anyone else that has paid to do so). Think of it like when companies go through a merger. Companies don't actually merge - one company purchases the other. The company doing the buying calls it an acquisition, as it sounds good as they would have to have lots of capital to do so. The smaller company calls it a merger, because frankly it is much better for PR than just saying 'yeah, we got bought out.' It's much better for Epistar's PR if they said that Cree will also benefit from getting access to Epistar's phosphor tech, when realistically that is unlikely.
Actually, that would never happen. What is happening, though, is that the major manufacturers like Philips, Narva, Sylvania are investing heavily in solid state lighting, and as that market continues to grow, production will slow and eventually cease of mercury lighting, and the first to go will be the niche markets that won't tolerate sharp price increases on smaller and smaller production runs. Some reefers are willing to pay $50-100 for a metal halide lamp, but if that doubles, and then doubles again, etc, how many will be left with the pockets deep enough?
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I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mike for his work with SB Reef Lights, and for passing on a way for the average guy to light our reef tanks. I was spending too much money replacing T5 lights every 6 months. I started researching entry level LED lights and came across SB Reef Lights. I took the plunge and ordered 2 basic boxes, and just waiting for them to arrive. I also want to thank R2R for the enjoyment and knowledge I gather by viewing the charts, graphs, and reading the research that is posted. It is interesting from time to time, that the very knowledge that people have learned over the years, compels some to choose to criticize instead of assisting fellow reefers. Nice work Mike Herman!!
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