Lighting Period
 

Just curious how long people keep there lights on for including dawn an dusk
but to exclude moonlights?

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79198

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72302

I actually run a 9.5 hr cycle.

4pm- dawn cycle
5pm - full lights
1030-130 - dusk


It is supposed to start at 3pm and off at 1230am, but too lazy to change my timers to DST.

I love the dawn and dusk cycle... Colors just pop.

Tanks road runner:mrgreen:

no idea what you're talking about :)

With the new LEDs, I will probably be extending my photoperiod to over 12 hours altogether.

When I set up a different timer for the blues, it will be 15 hours of blues (8x10w @100%) and 12 hours of whites (12x10000k, 3x20000k & 3x6500k @ 70%). So an hour & a half of dawn & dusk effect each.

8hrs daylight only plus a couple for actinics

14 hrs.

15hrs total DIY LED
1.5 hrs dawn and 1 hrs dusk

I have halides and no chiller, so winter is 12 hours, summer 8. It slowly changes throughout the year to get there.