LED LIGHTING

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Redoog

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I am working with a LED light manufacturing company on a deal for some LED lights for the US market.

I am curious from people here, what the needs are.

If you have time and would be interested in LED in the future please help me out by answering a few questions.

1. What dimensions would you prefer lxwxh?

2. Would you place your light inside a canopy?

3. Do you need a grow light?

4. Would you want "moon" lighting?

5. Is it better to have timers built in?

Anything else you are looking for in a LED aquarium light?
 
1 - I think the tiles are a great idea. That way you can add more or less to get your desired effect. But if designed as luminaires it would make sense for them to come in standard lengths i.e. just under every foot incriment (22",46" etc)

2 - I personally hate tanks with out a pelmet, so for me it would have to be inside a hood

3 - Grow light would be ace!

4 - Not essential as you can add this on the uber cheap via a quick purchase on fleebay!

5 - I personally prefer timer plugs as they are quick, easy and cheap to replace. Built in ones would just leave the product with a higher chance of failure! and additional cost in manufacture which will be passed on to the consumer!!

Im in the UK but i thought i would put my 2p in!
 
As far a LEDs go, I'd probably make my own if I were to want one. I still have so many LEDs from an old project lol.

But for me, it would be a 24 long by 18 wide. A timer and moon light would be a huge "extra", an it would be in a canopy.
 
Oh and btw... these ebay items are ones already in production for what appears to be very reasonable prices!!

300380840534 - single white tile
300380840504 - Bulk buy of 4 blue/red tiles

both claim to be great grow lights. Not specifically for aquariums but i think it could defo work!
 
Dimensions-2 footers. 6 inches deep.

I would place it on the glass top.

grow light - Not necessary for the tanks I would buy it for.

Moon Light not necessary either. but preferred.

Timer not built in.
 
I have diy led xmas light that are great. I looked at diy led's , i am pretty diy, but led was to involved. I am hoping to order the proto type soon for my own tank, test it before a lot purchase. Light for 6' x 18" with timer and i think dimmers, blue lights to do a sunrise sunset effect.

around 200.
 
Redoog;4027015; said:
I have diy led xmas light that are great. I looked at diy led's , i am pretty diy, but led was to involved. I am hoping to order the proto type soon for my own tank, test it before a lot purchase. Light for 6' x 18" with timer and i think dimmers, blue lights to do a sunrise sunset effect.

around 200.
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That sounds like a great idea, I've always wanted to try the sunrise sunset effect somehow but I'm not very handy.
 
looked at those ebay lights. Problems i see, are size. 1x1 at 60$. I have just 400 white led xmas lights right now, plenty bright enough, but not grow lights i am sure. But my lights are spread over the entire tank. I get shimmer effects and everyone loves the look. Those panels have 225 lights in that 1x1 square. They are better bulbs i would think, so they will be very bright. In a small area. They might work great for some ppl, use 3 for a 6' tank and have some shadows. But even then your in 180$, with no blue lights or timers.

I like the idea, which is what i am after. But i was thinking something along the lines of those, but built more for aquaria then pot growers.
 
1-I agree dimensions should be standard.

2-Like most T5HO fixtures, it should be pretty (=black) enough to just sit on glass, but run cool enough for canopy use & have an optional bracket system of some kind.

3-I would build a standard fixture with white only, then offer red & blue growlights as an option. The optional grow lights should have a separate power cord so they arent limited to the same time-cycle as the mains.

4-Moonlights should also be an optional upgrade, again with separate power cord or maybe just switchable.

5-Skip the internal timers. That just raises the cost & complexity. Maybe a built-in program for the sunrise/sunset effect would be worth the upgrade cost... Again that should be optional, though.

Other than all that:
**Dimmers would be a great option (separate dimmers for each color?)
**Another option should be to add a few of the "Rebel"-type color changing LED's scattered around so you can shift the overall color temp at will.
*****HERES THE BIG ONE: I want a DMX-512 input jack! It can be optional, 5-pin, 3-pin, whatever, just as long as I can walk up, plug in a small lighting console, and record a new sunrise/sunset/dimmer map/color palette/timings/etc. An ethernet or other control cable might work too, but they would have to sell some kind of software with it. That could get expensive, so I say just put in the $2 DMX jack & let the customer figure out the rest.


EDIT: I want a company to just disassemble this fixture & put it into a CurrentUSA or Coralife chassis! 3w LED's & 36 of them!!! It has everything you could ever need, except maybe replacing a few of the RGB's with white... http://elationlighting.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=1670&Category=
 
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