Reef Discussion

chris B · Jan 24, 2012

radiance Marine Led Light, Has anyone heard about these now coming onto the market within australia and i would like to see the prices they come out and what sizes they suite as well.

• Programmable timer
• Moonlight function
• Manual mode
• Incremental Dimming
• Energy saving
• Low heat output
• No UV or IR light
• Light compensation mode
• Rated for 50,000 hours

Azfish · Jan 24, 2012

Saw these at a trade show, I didn't think they were all that great and looked to be using cheap leds.

chris B · Jan 24, 2012

which trade show did you see these at ,it would be good to see how good the quality of these are really are and how popular they will be

Azfish · Jan 24, 2012

Pet Expo last year. The LED's looked like those cheap 1/2 watt diodes you see on strip lights on ebay. So add a few strips of them, a controller and a nice looking fitting (mutton dressed as lamb) and you have this light.

Popular and Good efficient lighting are not synonymous.

MagicJ · Jan 24, 2012

AquaOne normally produce products at the lower end of the market, and with LED's you do get what you pay for.

Their brochure is lacking in the important details i.e. what LED's are they using. The controller looks good, although this could be put together for less than $50.

From the picture, and the number of LED's used, they are using 1W LED's which is a concern for me - these LED's are inefficient and old technology but a lot of the lower end units use them because they are cheap. They will look nice and bright but whether are are producing light at the correct spectrum is another matter.

Not something I would buy.

VaultBoy · Jan 24, 2012

One of my LFS has the first unit sold in Aus (apparently) and he couldnt program the light to come on during the day... even with the help of the aqua one rep it was doing some weird shit like coming on during the night and switching one and off during the day. I think this is not a good sign for these lights!

firechild · Jan 25, 2012

PAR and spectrum information are on the Aqua One website

I'd suggest anyone that can't program these lights would struggle to tie their own shoelaces.

VaultBoy · Jan 25, 2012

firechild said:
PAR and spectrum information are on the Aqua One website

I'd suggest anyone that can't program these lights would struggle to tie their own shoelaces.

They programmed it but it didn't do what the program says!

MagicJ · Jan 25, 2012

From my reading, you program in 6 points in a 24 hour period, with each point having a variable power level - the program then ramps up or down between these points.

Maybe the one mentioned above was faulty, and they just didn't understand the program :rolleyes

NiCd · Jan 25, 2012

Massive drop off on the PAR do these have a wide spread optic?

firechild · Jan 25, 2012

No optics at all.

NiCd · Jan 25, 2012

so whats the light spread like?

MTG · Jan 25, 2012

i can see these being better then the cheap Chinese leds but it depends on their price point.

NiCd · Jan 25, 2012

Id say these still are cheap chinese but Kongs has pretty good customer service and support LFS, not to mention agressive pricing (ie $50 skimmers that to some degree actaully do work) so from that point Id say these could be better than BS.

Not that id run either on my DT, still potentially an interesting product

MTG · Jan 25, 2012

any idea of pricing ?

firechild · Jan 25, 2012

NiCd said:
so whats the light spread like?

Spread and blending is quite good. Though I've only seen the lights on an Aquareef 400, nothing wider.

NiCd · Jan 25, 2012

Is there any talk of updating the AR### tanks to have LED's as well?

Joshwaaaa · Jan 25, 2012

Matt G said:
any idea of pricing ?

this I would like to know, considering there pricing on all there other products

MagicJ · Jan 25, 2012

NiCd said:
Is there any talk of updating the AR### tanks to have LED's as well?

Found this on the Practical Fishkeeping site

. The new Fluval Edge has LEDs, Maidenhead Aquatics and Superfish nano tanks have LEDs, as do tanks from Aqua One.

Matt G said:
any idea of pricing ?

Also found this post

Correct me if im wrong but i saw the aqua one radiance in my lfs and it was priced up at £1200,far too much money for most fishkeepers in my opinion!

VaultBoy · Jan 25, 2012

On the 4ft coral tank at my LFS when I saw the light on it looked really nice and crisp... No spotlighting and seemed to be really well built just the issue with the programming... and like MagicJ said it could well have been faulty