New polymer light may upstage LED's

[ichthyoid]

SnowManSnow;818254 wrote: Honestly, for some reason I don't really think LEDs will ever be "quite there"... It wouldn't surprise me if another technology got it right first.
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I agree, as it stands today.

They have more recently developed phosphors now for several new bands/wavelengths. One in particular being ~420nM. That's the big one for both PAR/PUR and fluorescence.

For LED's to really take off, I think smaller arrays with individually controllable bands, each with dimming will need to happen.

At the end of the day though, China needs to learn how to spell ...


... QUALITY CONTROL !

There are other options in play. We live in interesting times

 

[rdnelson]

ichthyoid;818269 wrote:
For LED's to really take off, I think smaller arrays with individually controllable bands, each with dimming will need to happen.

At the end of the day though, China needs to learn how to spell ...


... QUALITY CONTROL !

Agree completely with this part of your statement (not that I disagree with the rest). Where I think LED may have a slight advantage in the short term is just the fact of a head start. There are already LED (all be it for other end uses) where the spectrum can be manipulated within the chip it's self. I would suspect that they are close to coming up with something like this that relates to our end use in a much shorter time frame than an entirely new technology. The key here is short term.

 

[superclown]

I was disappointed with my led's switched back to halides.

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[ichthyoid]

SuperClown;818293 wrote: I was disappointed with my led's switched back to halides.

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This is why I have both, for the time being.

- a 2x 250watt electronic MH + 2x T-5's overdriven, and

- a 2x 200watt LED + 2x T-5's overdriven
(I'm expecting a little more 'oomph' out of these

I plan to try both and evaluate for PAR, appearance and coral vigor.

I will then decide which to keep.