LED Lighting

[UnderWorldAquatics]

Here are some pics of my 26 Bowfront mini reef with 8 watts of led lighting. 8x 1watt white LED's, as is, it has a shimmer very similar to MH lighting but more crisp, small damaged bubble coral seems to love it, will be upgrading to 3x 5watt white LED's and 3x 5watt blue LED's, for a total of 30watts LED lighting, I think it will more than suffice for a SPS reef, I will post more on the much larger led lighting setups I will use on the 1200+ gallon display tank...
pics taken with no flash

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/13026frontlow-med.jpg?8870
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/13026frontcenter-med.jpg?944

[JoelF]

What lighting would that be equivilant to? watts and K rating wise?..looks good.

[Quinn]

Any way you can get a PAR reading?

[Gujustud]

Can you post some pics of the actual lighting setup? Thanks!

[UnderWorldAquatics]

In person I would have to say that it looks similar to MH lighting and the kelvin would look to be around 8-9000K, I have abunch of 5watt LED's too but dont have them on the tank right now, at 8 watts it looks the equivlent of about 40watts of lighting....something around there Im really not to sure, I really like the shimmer effect they give off, makes it nice and crisp!
when I make my LED lighting setup for the 1200+showtank, I will get a par meter to do some tests

I can get some pics of the casing soon but it is very primitive acrylic case to keep moisture away as it is just temporary

when I was playing around with the 6x 5watt LED's, it looked like it was as bright as a MH and it shimmered more intense with a very nice crisp white with a decent blue tint to it and corals glowed like I had 1,000,000watts of attinic lighting on them, I like LED's

[StirCrazy]

Any way you can get a PAR reading?

I can try on some of the ones I have here this weekend. they are not 1 watt LED's though, Maybe Kyle could send me 1 white one and one blue one to test and then I can mail them back to him.

Steve

[Gujustud]

I've got some led fixtures, (3bulb, and 8bulb) that I'm gonna try using on my fuge at first (8bulb for fuge, 5 units total, and using the 3bulb (2x) for my moonlight).

Each fixture runs on 10-15.8 volts and uses only 80 Milliamps & produces 90,000 mcd, so it should be interesting to see how they work. Just need to wire up a powersupply for them, and I'm good to go.

[UnderWorldAquatics]

Any way you can get a PAR reading?

I can try on some of the ones I have here this weekend. they are not 1 watt LED's though, Maybe Kyle could send me 1 white one and one blue one to test and then I can mail them back to him.

Steve

mabey I could send out some extra 5watt LEDs that I have for some testing.....
1 white and 1 blue

[Quinn]

That would be good.

How much did this cost to set up?

You should get some nice SPS under those and see how they do.

[UnderWorldAquatics]

Ill calculate costs later, I will be taking before and after pics of some very nice sps frags and see how they do when I put 30watts of LED lighting over the tank...

[TommDool]

Were did you get this LEDs

[UnderWorldAquatics]

I got them from the manufacture, they need to be wired and driven by a LED driver. If you just want the bare LED's you can get them at many online retailers.

[Gujustud]

I wanted to test out the LED fixtures I got, so I thought i'd see how bright one fixture would look on my tank.

http://www.ditchmond.com/images/aqua/ledtest.jpg

Not super bright, however I'm planning on using 5 of these fixtures on my 5g fuge which i'm sure will be more than enough.

[IslandReefer]

Assuming the cost is not prohibative, do you all think blue LEDs could replace actinic VHOS?
What wattage (est. watts/gal) of LED would replace 12ft of T12 VHO?
Could someone post the manufactures URL.
Thanks

[Coffeeman]

Where are you guys getting your LED's from?I wouldn't mind trying some on my 7 gallon bow.

[CanCruiser]

I just joined this forum and found this thread very interesting. Any updates? new pics? etc.

Thanks

[UnderWorldAquatics]

Ill update when I get my new equipment in....

[dirtyreefer]

tagging along

[StirCrazy]

Ill update when I get my new equipment in....

did you ever get around to dropping a few of thoes LED's in the mail for me to test?

Steve