Comments:
What a great package for convenient light control. Having just one electrical cord, separate timers for the blue and white lights, and moonlights coming on automatically when ambient lighting falls below pre-set limits, is a system a user would have designed. You can even change the color of the moonlights from white to blue.
Draw back. The legs need a way to clamp into final position once the user sets the unit up. Right now, every time the light gets moved, the legs slide and push out the plastic splash cover. If you have to move the unit for cleaning, feeding, or whatever, make sure to have someone with you. Otherwise, good chance the light is going into the drink.
What I would change: Add a timer to the moon (LED) lights like sprinkler timers ... 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, all the time. It would be nice to be able to turn them off sometime during the night (even the moon doesn't stay in the sky all night).
The timers are way cool on the regular lights. As comes from the factory, one timer controls the blue lights while the other timer controls the white lights. The timers are a series of flip tabs, one for each 15 minutes meaning you can simulate clouds during the day etc. You could have the lights come on at 8 a.m. Then have one bank shut down from 10:00 to 10:15 then come back on. Later, have one bank of lights go off at 1:15 pm, the second banks of lights go off at 1:30 pm, one bank back on at 1:45, and both back on at 2:00 pm. Whatever 15 minute scheme you can come up with, they can be programmed to do. Simple, efficient, yet cost effective.
With a total of 216W, a true 55-gallon tank will receives just short of 4W per gallon (3.92w). The 55 gallon tanks normally sold are actually 52 gallons (with no displacement) so you get the recommended 4 watts per gallon. Since reefers are usually the only ones really concerned with watts per gallon, figure in your rock displacement and you can see for 55 gallon or less systems, this is proper lighting.
Yes, I would recommend this product to my friends.
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