Cathic
Fish Wrangler
Wanted to give a brief overview of the new lighting system that arrived today, packaging was good, delivered on time within the 6-8 days, no broken bulbs, no box damage, well packaged and shipped. I give it a 9.
The fixture itself, bulbs are decent nothing spectacular but no one expected spectacular, replacing with phoenix 14k's and looking at some true t5 actinics. Nothing broke, crisp white color the blues are pretty light compared to what you would expect in a true actinic, doesnt do much for the "pop" effect. Still for free bulbs they are doing their job.
This gets a 7 until i can get new bulbs to check out on these ballast.
LED's are alright, was hoping there would be more than 6 bulbs, but I knew there was only 6 when i ordered. cant really check these out till night time.
Cooling fans seem to be doing a decent job, silent and effective hopefully, fixture does get warm.
i give these a 7 as well, till i can really see the full extent of the tank heating up.
overall pretty impressed the fixture seems durable not cheap.
The fixture itself, bulbs are decent nothing spectacular but no one expected spectacular, replacing with phoenix 14k's and looking at some true t5 actinics. Nothing broke, crisp white color the blues are pretty light compared to what you would expect in a true actinic, doesnt do much for the "pop" effect. Still for free bulbs they are doing their job.
This gets a 7 until i can get new bulbs to check out on these ballast.
LED's are alright, was hoping there would be more than 6 bulbs, but I knew there was only 6 when i ordered. cant really check these out till night time.
Cooling fans seem to be doing a decent job, silent and effective hopefully, fixture does get warm.
i give these a 7 as well, till i can really see the full extent of the tank heating up.
overall pretty impressed the fixture seems durable not cheap.