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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by bladerunner, Oct 15, 2012.

  1. Oct 15, 2012 #1
    bladerunner des moines

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    I bought the retrofit kit for my biocube, but I would like to make it more blue. Is it as simple as just adding more blues or is there a smarter way to do it?
     
  2. Oct 15, 2012 #2
    Pete H.

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    yeah, I think that you could just add a couple more blues.
     
  3. Oct 15, 2012 #3
    bladerunner des moines

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    It won't overload my driver? And how much is a couple? Lol
     
  4. Oct 15, 2012 #4
    bladerunner des moines

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    Also, royal blue vs blue, and optics vs none....
     
  5. Oct 15, 2012 #5
    B-Rad

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    Just change out some of the whites with blues or look into adding dimming.
     
  6. Oct 15, 2012 #6
    bladerunner des moines

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    I have 5 white, 5 blue... If i took out whites how much will it affect my coral choice?
     
  7. Oct 15, 2012 #7
    Pete H.

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    Which driver do you have? .. My 20 gallon tank has 10 royal blue and 6 white with 2 moonlight. I also have 80 degree optics on them. Depending how high the lights are, you want different optics. If the light is high up, the narrow optics, close to the tank, wide optics or even none. Otherwise, you will get spotlight effects.
     
  8. Oct 15, 2012 #8
    bladerunner des moines

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    What ever driver comes with the retrofit lol. My lights are only 3 inches from my water so pretty close. Right now my leds have no optics.
     
  9. Oct 15, 2012 #9
    ICreefNoob

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    For 3 inches above the water you don't need any optics.
    As for adding more LEDS that all depends on what drivers/heatsinks came with the retrofit kit. Where did you get the kit from?
     
  10. Oct 15, 2012 #10
    bladerunner des moines

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    Rapidleds... 14gal biocube kit non-dimming
     
  11. Oct 16, 2012 #11
    Pete H.

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    You should be able to put up to 14 LEDs on the mean well driver.
     
  12. Oct 16, 2012 #12
    B-Rad

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    I would drop to 2 whites and add 3 blues.
     
  13. Oct 16, 2012 #13
    bladerunner des moines

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    Which would make only 3 whites... If that rashly enough? I read somewhere that the blue lights are all for show, that the whites are what make corals grow so i thought i would need so many watts of them
     

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