modding 150W aqualight pro to 250W

Okguy · #1 12-10-2007, 06:05 PM

Kwirky, I'm sorry your thread got hijacked off topic. But since a lot of people have Aqualights I'm curious if you've tried to switch the PC's to T5's. I'm thinking of trying it if I get a some spare time over Christmas (and can find the parts locally) and would like to know how your upgrade went?

Thanks,

Kevin

Chin_Lee · #2 12-10-2007, 06:12 PM

Kevin
I am going to look into doing this mod (pc to T5) in the near future. I'll let you know how it goes.

calkrog · #3 12-10-2007, 07:29 PM

taggin along.. i have the 36" and i want t5's as well. i

kwirky · #4 12-10-2007, 08:10 PM

unfortunately my tank sprung a leak and I had to swap it out in an emergency. Now it's a 3' long tank and the 24" fixture won't be enough no matter how I mod it. So the upgrade won't be happening because I'm going to upgrade the fixture to a 3' long one when I have the $$.

mseepman · #5 01-17-2008, 08:03 PM

Bump...anything happening with these mods?

kwirky · #6 01-20-2008, 01:40 AM

not worth the time and effort because most of the reflector would end up being hashed up. I'm keeping the 150W because it seems to be ok for the time being for my corals.

mseepman · #7 01-20-2008, 01:49 AM

On RC there is a thread on the Odyssea light copy of the Coralife. It is a huge thread that has taken me the last 2 days to read. One member there did a PC to T5HO conversion and showed off what he did...but now I can't find it as the thread is so large that it's been split 4 times after 40 pages each.

I believe that what they did there would work just fine in the Coralife too. All it cost them were the new bulbs and the endcaps. Since it's shielded behind acrylic, they didn't even need to be waterproof end-caps. It's the pin-out that I'm unsure of.