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03-16-2013, 03:43 AM
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let there be light!
i always dread drilling my ceiling. lots of prep work to ensure something hangs level not to mention in the right spot. i measured 10 times and hung once. i was very lucky to find a joist an inch off from dead centre over the tank so my strip of wood on the ceiling is barely wider than the mitras.
This thing disappears above the tank since my living room has next to no lighting in it other than some dim lamps. The manual was missing from the box but I have had time to just manual tweak the channels. Currently have blue, royal blue, cool white and hyper violet at 100%. Red 30%, Hyper Red 20%, Green 40% and Yellow 10%. It's very bright and the overal look has more blue than my somewhat flat looking Kessil. There is definitely colour banding but easily the least noticeable of the LEDs I've seen. The photos also show a pattern like I have strips of light blocking material running in parallel rows above the tank but it doesn't look like that in person and I just quickly snapped these. Excited to mess around with these more. Love the small size of the unit and the big light it throws everywhere. I easily got light to even all the spots on my rear wall but I was blinding my wife on the couch at that point. Had to move it back to about 7" off the water's surface.     
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03-16-2013, 03:47 AM
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I like it Brett. The rock wall gives it some nice depth in the front view
Where's the Orange-back ... I don't see him in the pics 
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03-16-2013, 04:00 AM
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Nice :-)
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03-16-2013, 04:38 AM
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Thx guys. Ill try my dslr to more accurately show how the lights effect really looks. Those strange shadowy bands the camera sees are def not visible to me.
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03-16-2013, 05:17 AM
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Ok so here are pics with the camera and not the iPhone. Gone are the strange shadows. Now depending on monitor settings a bunch of other things your mileage may vary but to my eyes these very accurately show how the tank looks in person. I will probably reduce the cool white to bring the overall look a bit more into the blue.
   Here you can spot some of the yellow highlights on my rocks. The banding is almost entirely in the yellow spectrum and hardly noticeable. There is no seperation on my sand other than in the shadows behind the tower. None on the tower or rocks on the sandbed but a bit on parts of the rock background. 
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03-16-2013, 05:30 AM
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Ok what dark magic is this. My channels i manually set before to 100% are at 60 now lol. It must have some default dimming program on it lol.
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03-16-2013, 07:35 AM
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Just spent an hour with the light composer app. Totally blown away at the control this thing gives you.
I have all the channels set to ramp up over two hours starting at 2pm. Full intensity lasts from 4 till 10 when they slowly ramp down over two more hours. Then the moonlights are on until ramp up again. You can even program the backlit screen lol. It's at 30% when my moonlights are on and 80% the rest of the time. You can also set the overall output % and while its currently at 100% just for staring at it looks like with a few clicks I can acclimate my corals by increasing it from a much lower starting point over a month etc. Totally impressed! I really wish the software ran on a Mac tho. It pained me to pull out my wife's ancient netbook.
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03-16-2013, 08:14 AM
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 Have fun with your lights 
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03-17-2013, 03:24 PM
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Here's my super fancy fish room! It fits almost entirely where my old salt mixing bucket used to go lol. How embarrassing. A standard 90 is going on the bottom shelf to hold my ro/di. Small tank is my weekly 10g water change. Ro/di will go behind the 10g tank exactly where it used to be. 
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