ISO all in one tank
- Thread starter just_tim
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quackenbush - why do you think the LED's are crap? I had mostly softies and LPS in there but a couple easier SPS did just fine. They do a decent job for a nano and the light is spread evenly across the tank and comes with a couple different blue/actinic LEDs operated individually. They certainly don't have the features of some of the high end LEDs and aren't going to compare to something like a Kessil A360, but I wouldn't say they were 'complete crap'.
My experience is with what I believe they are now calling the PRO version. The whites are overpowered. The blues are underpowered. There is no adjustability/dimmability. The whites require a huge transformer due to a so-so electrical design. All that I could live with. But the whites were 5 strips of 5 LEDs each. If one of the LEDs in the strip burned out, they whole strip had to be replaced at a cost of $85 which I was unwilling to pay. One by one the strips went bad on my hood until one day my wife called and told me there was only the dim blue light in the tank. So I ended up stripping the whole system out of the hood and replacing it with a NanoBox Reef Retro kit which I'm very happy with.
So, in short, I'm pretty chapped about the reliability. Maybe complete crap isn't fair, but I'll go with unreliable junk... at least that's been my experience.
