Yes! I've also joined the cool kids club!
This is the first time since grade 3 I've been part of the cool kids club, and back then it was mostly because my mom packed extra lunch money that the rest of the club took to buy candy. Okay, it wasn't mostly because of that, it was completely because of that, but if money can't buy you friends, then what the heck IS it good for?!?

Welcome to the mitrahood!

We clap slow as well...

does anybody have a custom project I could try with these awesome lights?

Are you looking for lighting profiles?

Likely, the GHL software calls them project files.

Yes

I'm going to work on a couple new one this week/weekend I can post when I'm done

Awesome! What percentage of brightness do I start them with? I have mostly sps

It would be interesting to see what some people are doing with their profiles.
I made mine fairly elaborate with more red during a short sunrise to some fairly heavy growth periods around noon and then all afternoon it's the colors I like to see, fading to a blue sunset.
The issue I ran into is when I changed from a 14k to 18k at 6:00 and it looked bizarre. Looking at the display and all royal blues are off. Loaded another project and same thing. Ran a test run and clicking between the 5:59, and 6:00 was a huge visual difference. In the end, the royal blue channel defaults to lunar simulation, which starts at 6:00 and lunar simulation showed no moon, causing my royal blues to shut off entirely. To make things more confusing, when you turn lunar simulation off, you have to 'save changes' to the light, not just update the project to the fixture. Anyways, have it all sorted out now, but would love to see what you guys are running also.

Well, after I made the switch I hooked up my radion to my laptop and pretty much copied the "radiant" profile
(light setup, intensity and times) from ecosmart live to mitras with the addition of yellow and HV spectrum. It's just the moon phase that I'm trying to figure out, if anybody could help me with this?

Thanks

At what % do i start at the reason im saying im setting up this weekend and will have 1 week home and then off to mexico for 1 week if i had t-5's the light will be up around 6-8 inches in a canopy with the top opened up

I haven't had any issues with running the factory light program right from the start. It's been about 2-3 weeks. I moved a Duncan down lower as well as some other LPS. I also left my eggcrate on for the first 10 days or so, it blocks a bit. The Mitras aren't super intense and don't really hit full power during the factory program.

I was running 100% on my radion, what I did was I start at 70 then ramp up to 100% for about 1-1/2 I also put uv at 100. I have mostly sps and my red planet is starting to have a green colour on its base. Other sps are starting to get colour that was not there before.
I'm quite happy with these lamps, except I'm still trying to figure out how to operate moon phases. My moonlight stays on all night, every night with same intensity.

100% on eco mode (default) is only 80%, so something to consider. Also not much concern with these fixtures, the even spread and lack of optics should eliminate most threats from burning coral. Keep it on eco mode for now and program whatever you figure, I can't see you having any issues.

Ok steve thanks

I am having a hell of a time updating the FW. I also bought a MS Surface Pro running windows 8 and can't get it to even see the lights when they are plugged in.

You may need to update the USB driver, I needed to. One other step that is easy to miss is to match the COM Port # near the end of the process. PM me if you still have trouble, I just updated my firmware to 1.09 tonight.

I hear that USB 3.0 isn't as friendly as 2.0, it was posted on the Mitras Forum.

Well, I went from having a working Mitra to one that won't turn on after trying to update the firmware. Doesn't even recognize the drivers supposedly.

Did you unplug the power for few seconds than reconnect after installing new firmware?

Me too. You need to delete the USB driver and load it again. It was likely reset during a FW update.

Yup.. I unplugged the light quite a few times... I got the FW 1.09 to finally update after nearly 1.5hrs of frustration... to only be greeted with more frustration when the light seemingly won't correctly display the colors I want at 6pm..

When I set my light spectrum on LC, and output it to the lights to see what it looks like, its a nice 15K ish Blue... I apply that, then when I run the test illumination at 5:59pm its got a the spectrum set from 4pm and should gradually change to the 6pm... instead 6pm turn to a white with green hues... regardless of how many times I transmit it to the light..

I've basically given up for the night. :drinking::bad-word:

sounds like you are not pressing save and transmitting to the Mitras so when you do a test run its going back to default.

If you are realy stuck please sihn into www.profiluxsupport.com where others are sharing files.

If that was the case then shouldn't all the spectrums that I changed from 7am-4pm also default back to what they were? Why is it only switching back at 6pm when I changed each spectrum at each time point together.

That being said, at 6pm, in the LC screen it shows the correct color spectrum and what percent of each LED should be on at the overall output %, all of which match the Live Output and what I want, but it doesn't actually translate to the light.

I will try again..

Also, if your moon simulator times are not set right you will get pitch black or something not right.

That part I have figured out.


The strange thing is, if I load the stock Light Composition that comes with control center, transmit it to the light, the light does its disco strobe light thing to program each channel and immediately shows the correct lighting per the time.

I just composed a brand new light composition, saved it, transmitted it, and BANG, back to the one that is screwed up.

I've tried switching it all back to default setting and trying from there.. nothing seems to make a difference.

To be honest Aqua-Digital, I find the forums over at GHL/Profilux absolutely useless.

Have it all sorted out JDigital?

I suppose so.. I don't know how, but the test illumination doesn't match what I programmed.. but the actual program in the light is what I want.

I ran into the problem where I had the royal blues selected for "simulation" so as soon as 6:00 hit, my program went completely goofy. If I was sliding the bar across, it looked great at 5:58, 5:59, and then bam, 6:00 it went to a very dim blue. Just so happened I guess that there was virtually no moon present so the simulation turned all the LED's off but about 1% RB.

I deselected the simulation box on all the channels and then the program went exactly as it should have. Oh and to complicate things even more so, when you change the light program there is the large button on the bottom that transmits the new program to the lights, but when you deselect the simulation mode, you have to hit the save changes button at the top near the menu bars. Drove me crazy for a solid hour.

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Yes, as of today I received my silver GHL Mitras from Concept Aquatics...Now to get it on my tank..and programming...anyone have a program they wouldnt mind to send my way?

I'm more than happy with the default program that comes with the lights. It is a very natural color and intensity representation. The light composer makes it easy to tweak it a bit if you want to. I've made a few minor color changes and changed the start/end times.

Check this out

before and 3 months later under Mitras

November 27th 2012
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ankPics029.jpg

December 28th 2012
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps1982e4b9.jpg

March 16th 2013
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psbfc6cb74.jpg

I have Rodneys project template if anyone wants it.

yes please.

email :lol:

Very nice! his camera focus even improved under this light. There's nothing it can't do lol.

Next thing people will be saying the camera made it grow fast too! :lol:

I've got nothing alive under mine yet besides pods and brittle stars but I can tell you they look totally sweet lol.

oooo brittle stars need some for my tank.