Chinese LED Lights

[Travis1787]

Sry to hear mike I'm useless there but I'm sure bhaz will help you out ...

@ron.... they claim the 2060 will cover a 36 inch area .. so one will cover a 3' tank perfect

And a 6 foot tank should be fine with 2 2060s , 36 and 36 is 72"/6 feet... but if your worried about it and want plenty of coverage then get 2 2080 but they are supposedly able to cover a 48" area i believe so 2 would be pleanty for your tank if not too much

[exterminatank]

I'm talking with Sunny now. She walking me through some things now. I guess its the driver. I dunno. I depth power writes around inside and side fans shaking in stead of turning. Can't get white side to work. Ugh.


Mike

[bhazard451]

Originally Posted by exterminatank

Hey guys. So I have had my D120 custom from evergrow for about a week now. The whites just stopped working tonight. I tried switching the wires around to see if it was a wire plug or something but that didn't fix it. Anyone have any suggestions?


Mike

Tell them. They can send you a new driver.

[exterminatank]

Yeah I did. I just was thinking if anyone had same problem and if it was an easy fix. I guess it is a driver .


Mike

[Travis1787]

Are the drivers hard to swap out?

[exterminatank]

I dunno. It looks kinda tricky (for a non electrical guy). But I tried switching some writes around and just couldn't get the whites to work. The white switch works the blues and the blue switch works three blue, but when I switch them the other way the whites won't work. I Dino. I furs I'll wait to see what they say.
Oh well...


Mike

[Ron Reefman]

Originally Posted by Travis1787

@ron.... they claim the 2060 will cover a 36 inch area .. so one will cover a 3' tank perfect

And a 6 foot tank should be fine with 2 2060s , 36 and 36 is 72"/6 feet... but if your worried about it and want plenty of coverage then get 2 2080 but they are supposedly able to cover a 48" area i believe so 2 would be pleanty for your tank if not too much

Thanks Travis,

My 180g is 6" but I have an 18" wide, thick, frosted glass center brace. I originally was going to do 4 of the D120's. But I think the IT2080's will run from the outside ends of the tank and overhang the center brace by 5"-7". I'm hoping that by having 5"-7" of the brace on either side with lights trying to shine thru will be better than the D120 hanging just off the edge of the brace. At least that's my current thinking. Anybody have any other ideas?

[teog]

Looks like reefbreeders has the 32in it2080 in stock. Im going to purchase one for my 120 mixed reef. Whats everyones opinion on the it2080? Would 90 degree lenses work with a 15 in high canopy? or would you go 120 degree lenses?

[nikesb]

are the moonlights on the it2040 under driven?

[Travis1787]

The moon lights are tech on the same channel as the blues .... they run with the blues at all times and when your blue channel gets to 5% on all the blues kick off and and 5% and under just the 3 moons run and its labeled as a 3rd channel but tech I don't think it cause it runs with channel 2

[nikesb]

thanks for the info, ive been trying to get a hold of either evergrow and reefbreeders and they just dont respond to pms.

[bhazard451]

Originally Posted by nikesb

thanks for the info, ive been trying to get a hold of either evergrow and reefbreeders and they just dont respond to pms.

Remember the time zone differences for China. 1pm here is just about 1am there.

[arw547]

I just ordered one of the 32" fixtures (it2080) from Reefbreeders. For those of you that have ordered from reefbreeders in the past, did you get an order confirmation email from them? So far all I've gotten is a receipt from PayPal.

[Travis1787]

I just got the pay pal thing as well but it says what I ordered in it... says 2 customized units 340 each ... and there company name is on it ... so in not worried too much

[Dapg8gt]

Originally Posted by nikesb

ive tried contacting reefbreeders and they havent replied to my emails or pm. as for evergrow's alie express site, i havent seen it anywhere on there

If you just google evergrow LED the direct site will come up..


I've been having issues trying to get some warranty pieces sent to me from sunny. At first was prompt with responses when I wanted to buy LEdS than when I stated my violets were flickering (2) then noticed some were burnt looking he stopped responding. I will def be ordering from reefbreeders for my upcoming build if I don't DIY one myself. Thinking of doing a Multichip/Cree combo instead.. It will be under the canopy of my 150 so I don't need it to be super pretty.

[mrbigshot]

evergrow is having a Christmas sale starting the 26th for the d120s $159 for the standard white and blues. $169 for the custom ones. that's the price with lenses.
I thought about ordering from reefbreeders but its $30 more for each of them once you get optics on them. they included some extra leds for me but I asked because I'm Modding a light for the sump for my cheato. even if I had to buy them they were only 50 cents each 6500k's 5000k's 450nm's and some reds. Im not worried if an led Burns out as there easy to change and don't cost to much. as long as the drivers don't fail but even than I think Someone said there around $20. still cheaper than single bulb for a t5 or led setup.

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[St.Pete_Reefer]

Thoughts? Removed~dc
25 Gallon reef

[Rewlee]

Originally Posted by nikesb

thanks for the info, ive been trying to get a hold of either evergrow and reefbreeders and they just dont respond to pms.

I saw on a forum that Reefbreeders emails they send back have been going to peoples spam, it happened for me so check there for a reply. also if you buy now I have heard they are delaying shipping another week. they where suppose to ship today, but they had to repaint them or some crap so it will be another week for them to ship

[mrbigshot]

Originally Posted by St.Pete_Reefer

Thoughts? Removed~dc
25 Gallon reef

you can get them cheaper customized the way you want from places like evergrow or twilight. just Google d120 custom and I'm sure you'll find them. after paying the PayPal fees I spent $378 and change for two so $189 each and takes about 2-3 days to make and another 3 or so airmailed from China. that's with the same 90 degree optics. if your not going to deep or not growing high light demanding corals you can save some money and get it without.

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[St.Pete_Reefer]

I think I may just go T5. Sorry we do not allow ebay links~dc
Always like the look of T5 over anything not sure why. Thanks for the feedback.

[wright4941]

Originally Posted by wright4941

Just purchased two units of the Reefbreeders controllable LED's. Looking forward to getting them and hoping for good results. Im a bit concerned about the transition from my 150WX2 halides to the new units. I dont want to fry or loose my coral. Do you guys have suggestions for a start up schedule to minimize coral shock? Thanks

Well I ordered these right before I found out that they have the new 32" unit. Logan at Reef Breeders says he is willing to do a refund and send me the new unit. This would be a good savings for me which I could really use. My tank is is 48X18X24. Not sure what to do now. Would you guys stay with the 2 16' units or go with 1 32" unit?

[monkiboy]

got my new LED lights today. these are the evergrow D120s "chinese lights" ordered from a GB with my local reef club.

everything was really well packaged nice and tight!

they got my custom LED spectrum and layout design perfect, too!







even with all my blues, with both @ 100% this still isn't a 20k look. more like a 14k look, crazy how just a few whites can overtake the look. by dimming them down, and keeping the blues at 100% i'm able to achieve the look i was hoping for.

with both @ 100% and the lights six inches above the water line, at 18" depth i'm getting ~330 PAR on the edges of my 40 breeder tank. pretty ridiculous especially considering that the true PAR is probably higher due to these being LEDs and the apogee sensor not picking up the actinics correctly.

good stuff so far!

this is the custom layout i put together that i sent them in case someone wants a solid place to start from.

[St.Pete_Reefer]

Same one I was going to buy. Lets see it over the tank :-)

[monkiboy]

Originally Posted by St.Pete_Reefer

Same one I was going to buy. Lets see it over the tank :-)

i had it up for the PAR testing in a ghetto-fabulous kind of way. the hanging kit they provide isn't up to snuff for the clean look i'm trying to achieve so i don't have any of them over the tank, yet. i'll post up by next thursday with them hung over the tank, for sure.

the colors i used did a great job capturing a few colors i hadn't seen before with another LED light i was using. i compared macro shots but it's more obvious in person. here are some of the corals under the d120s and the posted LED layout/spectrum.

[straycat]

Nubee question here but why would one layout be different than another reefer's layout, what is achieved? Are you designing it for an existing populated tank and your Corals are living? Great pic's by the way!