LED Intensity

[jorjef]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

kinda my plan as well. I"ll start with 3 and see how that goes. Problem I have is that the tank may suffer before I can afford to buy more.

Just leave your existing lights in place, when the new ones arrive just get a bunch of people together to do a mock up and hold the lights over the tank for you as you sit back say "okay a little to the left, now up..no no the other up, you know down" All the time adjusting intensity to see how you like it. If you decide you need more units the original light is still there until the other unit arrives and swap out then.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by jorjef

Just leave your existing lights in place, when the new ones arrive just get a bunch of people together to do a mock up and hold the lights over the tank for you as you sit back say "okay a little to the left, now up..no no the other up, you know down" All the time adjusting intensity to see how you like it. If you decide you need more units the original light is still there until the other unit arrives and swap out then.

Oh, absolutely. I currently have a canopy that can just lift off. It will go to the side until I'm sure the new lights can maintain color. If not, they go back on until I can buy more units.

But I'll try to run closer to 80%+ on the whites to try and keep intensity while raising high enough to keep coverage.

[DanG]

My lights are hung under my canopy pretty much sitting on the tank brace, so mine are pretty close to the surface, which makes them super bright. This in turn has caused me to have the whites about 40% and the blues close to 90.

If I had a way to have them up higher, I'd probably run them higher just to get the same level of brightness.

[troni]

Holy look like night time in there? What's your white to blue ratio?