Haninja light's

[roland jacques]

I hear he is running 15K 175 Watts Iawasaki lamps, and they look good. Any idea what ballast he uses? or any Photos.

 

[roland jacques]

You like the way they look right? Ive never seen those lamps, but i do no i like the reeflux 12k on PFO ballast, i might have to try both.

 

[harleyguy]

Everything I have read about these bulbs basically says that they are really good and give off a clean white light, however if you power them with a Mercury vapor ballast or an e-ballast like an IceCap the par goes threw the roof... SanJay said these 175's on Icecap e-ballasts out performed almost all 250 hqi's...

Oh and good luck finding them in stock... anywhere

 

[roland jacques]

dawgdude;152670 wrote: Here is Hanin's tank with PAR readings.
http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showpost.php?p=143162&postcount=136">http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showpost.php?p=143162&postcount=136</a>
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that link says 14 K, not 15 K lamps???

Those numbers that sammy post are MUCH lower than what i read on some RC 15K post. i need to do more research on these 15 Ks.

 

[harleyguy]

The Iwasaki bulb is a 15K bulb that everyone labels 14K for some weird reason... they don't make a 14K and a 15K.

 

[haninja]

<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The bulbs are indeed Iwasaki 15Kk. I was quite surprised with the low PAR but I can attribute it to 3 factors: a) the bulbs are mounted high &#8211; 10&#8221; above water b) I&#8217;m using magnetic ballasts and c) spider reflectors. I like the color but not without actinic supplement. They had done wonders to my corals even with the relative low PAR. I believe Lee (glxtrix) is running them as well with lumen Bright reflectors and e-blast and is getting very good PAR. Check out his thread -

 

[haninja]

And some of Charlie's pictures of my tank can be seen here:

 

[mufret]

Unlike many other SE bulbs, the Iwasakis acheive better numbers when being run on electronic ballast. They will produce a bluish white spectrum that when tested actually came in at the rated 15k.

 

[roland jacques]

Good info Thanks. Have any of you campared them with different ballast for to look of the color?