Sum of all Fish Tranquility!

[slipknottin]

There is alot of push to develop LEDs into the lighting of the future for both low light and high light situations.

Recently the process to make blue LEDs has been figured out, and many are starting to work on projects.

LEDs offer quite large advantages over other forms of lights, less heat, longer life, no spectrum shift, and no heat means no wasted electricity. Almost all of the electricity used actually comes out as light.

 

[slipknottin]

Heres the link I was looking for:

http://www.servangle.net/reef/led/

 

[Anton Wernher]

slip thanks for the link... *thinks about starting his lighting project over*

 

[JamisonBWolsh]

NIce.. but the Miracle Beams works better I think..as a "nightlight"

 

[slipknottin]

your welcome Anton- there have been pushes to use "Xenon" lighting in aquariums too, but last i heard those projects died. Dont really know why..

 

[JamisonBWolsh]

I dont see how you can use it as a main lighting source...Not much light...

 

[Anton Wernher]

jamison,
There have been some great advances in high output leds in the past year... You would be suprised at how much light you can get out of them now.

 

[JamisonBWolsh]

Maybe they are using different LED's then the Miracle Beams use.
Of course, I havent seen the tank without the light off yet..

 

[slipknottin]

In the link he says that it would take at least 680 LEDs for 4 ft. long, 2 ft deep reef aquarium.

Thats a lot of LEDs, but the fact that he got a coral to grow shows definate future possibilities.

 

[JamisonBWolsh]

680 leds? sounds like to much work for a light source. I think the strip light is here to stay. They are good for nightlights though