Need Actinic Suggestions

[midgetwaiter]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

Lol!

Thank you for your constructive suggestion. Do you have those bulbs in stock yet?

[albert_dao]

Anytime man, ahha.

1" on either side is pretty slim pickings. Why NOT just get a new bulb?

But yeah, I don't have them yet. Still expecting...

[midgetwaiter]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

1" on either side is pretty slim pickings. Why NOT just get a new bulb?

I've reconciled myself to spending considerable amounts of money on this hobby but spending it twice because I made a bad call the first time annoys me. I was wondering if maybe there was something like a problem with my ballast that was giving me such a yellow output so I went and did some research to find out what would be a good comparison. I pulled a spectral plot off of Sanjay Joshi's site so I could get a rough idea what the Ushio 10000k should look like compared to a Hamilton SE 10000k I happen to have around. Turns out that the CCT he measured for the Ushio bulb was more like 6500k and if I compare it against some 6500k CFs I have it's pretty much the same. Great.

I'll admit to not knowing much about MH systems but this came as a bit of a surprise, from looking at Sanjay's site nobody is really offering a true 10000k bulb but at least most of them get closer than Ushio.

[WWWD]

Stop wasting your cash on ghetto lighting.

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merch...gory_Code=PFOp

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by WWWD

Stop wasting your cash on ghetto lighting.

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merch...gory_Code=PFOp

Heh, there's better units than that for the money (Sunlight Supply LumenMax 3, LumenArc Mini's, etc). And besides, the reflector has nothing to do with his inquiry.

BTW, not that I've referrenced it, but Iwaki bulbs are suppose to have some of the best Color Index numbers.

Anyway, PM me Aaron.

[WWWD]

It wasnt the reflector I was showing it was a small pendant unit that has built in actinic mini builbs. Dude it's up to you, a retailer can probably talk you into anything they have to sell but in the end if you still don't have what you want then you wasted a lot of money.

[albert_dao]

There's a few issues I have with a unit like that though:

- The heat from the halides will skewer the performance and lifespan of the PC's.
- PC actinic lighting is garbage compared to T5 or VHO T12.
- Because of the PC's being fit in the same reflector as the halide, you're losing a lot of light to poor design and that's not even account for the flashthrough.

As far as AquaConnects and other good 14k bulbs go, you'll find a lot of people run these just fine without actinic supplementation.

But whatever, I'm just a retailer trying to scam another customer.