Solaris I4 Series

[reeffreak]

I'm not the type to jump on the latest,greatest bandwagon yet!I believe the technology needs a couple more years to be proven and perfected.Hopefully, by that time the price will go down,like way down.

[NewbReefer]

Originally Posted by reeffreak

I'm not the type to jump on the latest,greatest bandwagon yet!I believe the technology needs a couple more years to be proven and perfected.Hopefully, by that time the price will go down,like way down.

Yeah i was hoping to see a few more competing companies with a few more LED products out by now but oh well.

[daugherty]

i am intrested in the plasma lighting.

[McCrary]

I think the reason that other companies are not producing LED's is because the cost is so high and the demand seems to be low. Halides and T5's seem to do the trick and are less expensive, so something pretty neat is going to have to come out to get people to switch.

[daugherty]

it has to effective if you by a 72 inch fixture and need a lot of light on your tank one unit will probably not be enough you could spend 5 or 6 thousand dollars just on light.

[NewbReefer]

The new I4 is suppose to be as effective as MH. just lookin at the price tag of them makes your stomache sick but how much do you spend in a year on electricity to run MH's and imagine keeping 40% of that, thats a nice chunk of change, it would pay off. not to mention the $100-$200 a year you spend on bulbs. and also the electricity your paying for to run your AC or chiller due to heat of the MH.

Im really hoping this I4 helps get more companies involved in LED lighting there just seems to be so many pros over cons, especially with LED's now becoming more intense and effecient.

[daugherty]

what i am saying is that it is only good for 400watts what if you need more 400 hundred watts is not all that much light for a 100 gallons or bigger.

[NewbReefer]

Yeah it'll be interesting to see what the LED's can produce in a year.

[daugherty]

i am shure they will have nig improvements. but the cost has to come down a lot if they are going to sell a lot of them.

[Bifferwine]

There are some people that have enough money that they are willing to pay a premium for the novelty of new items. The rest of us (the majority) base our purchasing decisions on the practicality of the item. Like McCrary pointed out, T5s and halides seem to do the job just fine, and what we get in return from fixtures like the Solaris just doesn't seem to justify several grand extra in price. The people that can, and do buy the Solars fixtures seem to be going after the cool and rarity factor.