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![]() wow...who needs to read newspapers in the bathrooms when you can stare into one of your tanks
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![]() i did it... i started my conversion.
went to gold's and bought a Sun System Tek light 8 bulb T5 system. It's so damned bright you can't even look at it! It's 430 watts or so, and Albert was swearing up and down that it would be better than 250W metal halides. I decided to opt out of the 400 watt systems because of their trouble, and the fact I won't be stocking much for SPS. AND the power consumption. And when looking at Sanjay's charts, the 400 watters don't scale in a linear fashion compared to 250's, so you're doing 75% more power for 45% more light. And the T5 bulbs can go forever without having to be changed, I guess. And basically I'm a sucker for new technology. I'm allways the early adopter. We'll see. It broke the bank a little, but half the cost was in bulbs, and it's all done. no heat, no canopies to build, no airflow to worry about. Now I have to worry about how I'm going to hang it. The one end of the ceiling where I have to hang the light from, the drywall's cracking. I don't think there's a stud running along where the two sheets of drywall meet. ![]() I'm still going to test these ballasts. They're TAR ballasts, so they won't be as noisy as outdoor ballasts, and if they work, I'm sure I'll be able to trade them with somone. Quote:
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Everything I put in my tank is fully dependant on me. Last edited by kwirky; 09-02-2006 at 02:42 PM. |
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![]() Errr, well, you should be changing the bulbs once a year man haha. You can drag out the replacements to 14 months from what I've read and stagger the blues a bit though.
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![]() "forever" was exaggerated
![]() it's just 12 months seems a lot longer than 9 months and here's a current picture of the tank. ![]()
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Everything I put in my tank is fully dependant on me. Last edited by kwirky; 09-02-2006 at 07:49 PM. |
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![]() The Americans beg to differ, haha.
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![]() 8 t-5's are quite bright and intense too. Doug had 4 over his 75 and man it was bright ,but more intense then anything. I think it was bleaching his hydro and some other frags he had. I think that after that he took it down and ran just 1 set of t-5's not sure on what he's going to run now.
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180 starfire front, LPS, millipora Doesn't matter how much you have been reading until you take the plunge. You don't know as much as you think. |