I want to switch my planted tank to at least partial LED lighting.
The problem I have is last time I bough an LED light off ebay, it was so dim it was worthless. I have a 100 gallon, 26 deep inch tank. So I'm looking for a roughly 48 inch light, probably 10000k for adequate penetration. I will probably combine it at least part of the day with my standard T5 156W 6500K that I have been using forever with slow, steady growth.. However, I love the look of LED lights, so for at least a few hours I will probably run just the LED's. and probably add the 6500 T5 for about 8 hours, and run the LED only for about 2-3 hours.
Without going into a book long description of the technicalities of lighting, how can I know how bright a LED plant light will be? Can I just use "lumens" and get an idea of a Watt comparison?
In other words 100W of brightness would equal about how many lumens on an LED? for visualization purposes?
Right now I have 252 watts of 6500K lighting on the tank.
I will change that to 156 watts of t5 6500K + how much LED?
any help is appreciated, thanks.
The problem I have is last time I bough an LED light off ebay, it was so dim it was worthless. I have a 100 gallon, 26 deep inch tank. So I'm looking for a roughly 48 inch light, probably 10000k for adequate penetration. I will probably combine it at least part of the day with my standard T5 156W 6500K that I have been using forever with slow, steady growth.. However, I love the look of LED lights, so for at least a few hours I will probably run just the LED's. and probably add the 6500 T5 for about 8 hours, and run the LED only for about 2-3 hours.
Without going into a book long description of the technicalities of lighting, how can I know how bright a LED plant light will be? Can I just use "lumens" and get an idea of a Watt comparison?
In other words 100W of brightness would equal about how many lumens on an LED? for visualization purposes?
Right now I have 252 watts of 6500K lighting on the tank.
I will change that to 156 watts of t5 6500K + how much LED?
any help is appreciated, thanks.