What about LED Lighting? Does it really work or is it just pretty?

[wadadligem]

Was at the shop today trying to figure out if I need to purchase an LED system or just stand pat with my 50/50 lighting.

Got some good advice as well as a demonstration.....now just like flatscreens I'm itching to switch!!

What do you think?:smokin:

 

[fishywoo]

You will find some interesting reading in this thread.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/equipment/70719-leds-good-bad-just-another-addiction.html

 

[tynman]

I have been running my new LED's from wingo about 180 watts of power with about 450 to 500 watt MH puts out in par/lumens. I can only say that most of 95% of my SPS are now coming to color better then there where with T5s and all the new SPS I put in the last week and a half seem to be doing great. My new purple monster isnt that deep purple yet but polyps are showing so Im thing its happy just needs to get use to its new home. So if you give me a couple more weeks I can let you know more.. but look wise they make my tank look GREAT... You can see some picture on this link.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/wingo-led/77879-new-wingo-leds-tank.html

And Im sure you can pick wingos brain if you need too..
Good luck
I jumped in with both feet!!!! LOL

 

[wadadligem]

Oh man that looks nice.... might as well give it a shot.

 

[wadadligem]

Thanks for the link. It explain a lot.

 

[tynman]

your welcome and if you check it monday or tuesday I will post 1 or 2 more pictures of the tank with the LED's at 100% white and 100% blue and I might if I remember Ill do 100% just blue so you can see the big difference between the T5 blue..

 

[jrobbins]

fwiw, i am running some leds for an upcoming podcast review. I replaced 500w of halides with about 160 watts of LED's. once i made the switch i had to run an additional 400 watts of heaters to keep my tank up to temp. not exactly a great trade off in terms of savings.

 

[pecan2phat]

fwiw, i am running some leds for an upcoming podcast review. I replaced 500w of halides with about 160 watts of LED's. once i made the switch i had to run an additional 400 watts of heaters to keep my tank up to temp. not exactly a great trade off in terms of savings.

Wow,
I also replaced 500 watts of halide & 220 watts of VHO with LEDs & my chiller still goes off 4 to 5 times a day to keep the temps down.

 

[jrobbins]

we keep the room at 70-72. my girl likes living in a meat-locker.

 

[JonnyJ]

we keep the room at 70-72. my girl likes living in a meat-locker.

thats strange...my girl likes to live in a oven. where the hell did you find her?


im running leds over my solana, love them and everything is growing. you have to be careful with placement of corals though. i melted some of mine away

 

[tynman]

No heater needed here not yet anyway summer is on its way!!!! I use to run my AC to 70 just for my tank and it ran 14 degrees hotter then my house so I was at 84 then.. got a chiller and now I can walk around my house with out a sweat shirt but the chiller has come on the few hot days we had before I put the AC on. Now will I need the heater Ill let you know that in the winter...LOL