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3 Websites You Should Know For Reef Aquarium Lighting

creative commons : aditya
A lot of misinformation floats around the interwebz on reef aquarium lighting. Thankfully we have PAR meters and spectrometers that provide objective evidence to the other wise extremely subjective evidence aquarists use to claim bulbs, ballasts and reflectors better than one another. Here are 3 sites you should know when making reef [...]

July 2, 2009
| eric michael | Tags: reef lighting | 1 Comment

New Lighting Project – Ushio 14K & 20K Halides

We’ve slowly been working on a new lighting project that will be based off a 250w DE metal halide lamp as the core light. I have used various metal halides before, but I have primarily used single ended screw based lamps for the improved bulb selection–my favorites being the 6.5K Iwasaki, 20K Radium and 20K [...]

June 25, 2009
| eric michael | Tags: 250w DE, Metal Halide, Ushio | 19 Comments

Tunto LED Lamp… For Aquariums?

As LEDs become more and more advanced, so are the ways lighting designers are implementing them into their work. Take a look at the Tunto LED wooden lamp designed by Mikko Kärkkäinen. It is completely smoothed, with all wiring and circuitry done inside the oak ply. Intensity is controlled by the user via touch activation [...]

June 23, 2009
| eric michael | Tags: design, LED, reef lighting | 5 Comments

CREE XP-G LED Hits New Efficiency Levels – 132 lumens per watt

One of the most dominate players in LED lighting, CREE has announced the XP-G LED that will soon be the industry’s “brightest and highest-efficiency lighting-class LED”. The cool white XP-G LED hits 132 lumen per watt when driven at 350mA, for total output of 139 lumens. For PAR demanding reefers, when driven at 1A  (~3w) [...]

June 22, 2009
| eric michael | Tags: Cree, LED, XPG, XRE | 5 Comments

Aqua Illumination / Luxim Plasma Light Emitter Impresses with Spread

Enjoy some updated photos of the Luxim emitter Todd and Bret of Cherry Corals are testing out, compliments of Aqua Illumination. (For more information on plasma lamps and additional photos of the unit, see out original coverage here: Plasma Light for Reef Aquariums.) The emitter being used is a Luxim STA-40 series, currently tested with a Lumenarc [...]

June 15, 2009
| eric michael | Tags: Aqua Illumination, Cherry Corals, Luxim, Plasma | 7 Comments

LumenBright Hybrid Lighting Unit Combines MH, T5 and LED

Jeremy at Reef Specialty shared these photos of a new hybrid lighting unit that pairs Lumenbright Metal Halide reflectors with two banks of T5s and LEDs for moon lighting. This combination is not a radically new idea, but it is the first time that a reflector of this calibre (e.g. Lumen Bright, Lumenarc, LumenMax) has [...]

May 22, 2009
| eric michael | Tags: CoralVue, Lumen Bright | 2 Comments
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