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Old 12-18-2012, 08:15 PM
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I haven't noticed it for a long time. But when you guys started talking about it here, had to go look at my tank to see it.

I kind of like it though. It only shows up on the sand bottom, and reminds me of snorkeling and seeing the wave shimmers on the sand.
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Old 12-18-2012, 08:20 PM
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I haven't noticed it for a long time.
Ya, I think that eventually you just get used to it. For a long time I ran just halides on my main tank and got so used to the shimmering from the halides that whenever I saw someone's T5 tank it just seemed odd to me.. Then I set up a second tank with strictly T5s over it and over a short period of time I just got used to it and was fine with the lack of shimmer on the T5 tank. Sometimes I think that our knee jerk reaction to something that's different from what we're used to it is to freak out.
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Old 12-18-2012, 11:05 PM
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Come to think of it this is an owners clubs not a renters/borrowers club, sorry Kien but I don't make the rules.
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Old 12-21-2012, 02:24 PM
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Just want to add an important point here

You wont see any disco ball effect with the Mitras. The reason for this is in the reflectors (not lenses) The reflectors converge the LED output to a uniform spread (convergence) eliminating any hot spot or higher intensity spot.

98% of the LED output is reflected back into the water matching that of a T5 reflector.

The Mitras was developed along with a leading University in Germany over two years, so there are a number of cutting edge technologies employed.

This spectrum analysis against ATi 54W T5 is quite impressive



The light blue thin line is the ATi

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Old 12-21-2012, 02:50 PM
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I was up late last night wrapping presents (way later than normal lol) I noticed my Mitras were on all night even though the display was zeros across the board. I'm guessing it is just moonlighting.
Where is the setting to turn this off or at least make it much dimmer?
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Old 12-21-2012, 02:53 PM
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In the software, you need to set a zero point time for example

11pm 0%
6am 0%
7am 10%

then between 11pm and 6am all will be off
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Old 12-21-2012, 02:55 PM
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I'm sure I did that, I'll have to double check.
Michael what's the latest firmware?
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