Reef Discussion

[Luke]

The first of my illumagic lights turned up today :)

They look great :)

 

[MTG]

whats the build quality like luke? still waiting on mine to come your lucky :confused: set one up over the tank yet?

 

[Luke]

Yeah had a quick set up Brighter than my 150w LED :0
Reading the manual now :)

 

[MTG]

MINES HERE!!!!!! and luke i beat you mine was here at 7AM!! i just didn't no someone picked it up for me!!!

 

[MTG]

double boxed and in a foam coffin, great packageing

 

[Luke]

Don't think so mate , First post = first in Australia :)
Nice try tho mate ;) Second post up = second ;) lol

 

[MTG]

:confused:, dont look at it at 100 pct it sends you blind. :cool:

 

[slin1977]

Wish I had an SLR camera. !!!!
Photo M-90C Advance Master.

 

[Luke]

My S model turned up , So two c models to go :)

 

[MTG]

packed so well!

 

[Luke]

What setting are you going to use ?

 

[slin1977]

I ran mine on P1 all day..... Just punched in S2 and all the coral "pop" like an explosion of colour... You will have to try that when you get your C models Luke...BTW you can change all the values on S1,2,3.
I really like the factory default value of S2

 

[Luke]

will do mate,
So what's whatas in S1 = sunny hot ? S2 = cloudy ? anywhere i can find out ?
Mind you i havnt finished reading the manual :)

 

[slin1977]

Hi Luke,

I know what you mean mate.... Those modes, Sunny Hot ,Sunny warm, Cloudy dont exist anymore with the new Advance Controller.( they were factory preset modes on the ALC version)
They are now replaced by P1 (Programable)P2 and P2+lightning.
S1, S2, S3 are all Static modes, in other words they dont ramp up or down.
The beauty of the new P1 and P2 etc is that you can now program your curve/ramping to what ever you like for each segment of the day.
This will enable you to put in different values too, and therefore you could get a cooler/warmer colour temperature or you could put in a dimmer value and thus simulate a cloud passing.
Studys have shown that clouds passing or even different wave amplitude can stimulate zooxanthellae reproduction.

 

[Luke]

Thanks mate ,
I dont think i will be setting it at 100 % for a while, i replaced a 250w halide with a 10k globe , Seems brighter than that for sure
So now its next to a 150w Cree BSLED with 3w diodes ,

 

[MTG]

hows it compare for brightness next to that? in theory the bsled should be heap brighter using the amount of power it does?

 

[Luke]

I think its brighter , Defiantly brighter on the bottom

 

[Luke]

What have you set your moonlights too ?
Mine are set very low , white are off completely

 

[MTG]

still need to set mine but i will make it allmost 0 for blue and uv, then 0 for white so its got the slightest glow to it ;)

 

[MTG]

heres some pics fellas very happy with the look just need to clean up the hanging
thats with lights at 100 pct w/b
(just for the photos)