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Originally Posted by chwkreefer
I just picked up a SA 14k 400 MH bulb. I know it hasn't had 100 hrs burn in time yet, but sheesh the light from this bulb is looking identical to the Radium bulb I have beside it over my tank. The radium bulb has about 3 months on it.
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yup thats whay I stated when i first flashed it up.
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Originally Posted by chwkreefer
If the 14k is like a radium, what the heck is a 20k bulb from Sun Aquatics gonna look like?
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A little more purple than a radium (so it looks like a radium with philips o3 actinics built in)
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Originally Posted by chwkreefer
Maybe I've got it all wrong, maybe Sun Aquatics color temps are right, and all the other companies color temps are out of whack.  |
nope I think the SA bulbs are not repersentitive of there stated color temp. The AB 250 watt bulb is sold as a 10K but actualy tests out to 13K and is ice white (looks like a USHIO with the slightest hit of blue but not enuf that you see blue) but as you have seen the 14k SA which I would expect to have a slight blue tinge is totaly blue like a radium.
Steve
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