LED PAR 30 and PAR 38... at Home Depot!
I was leaving Home Depot today and something caught the corner of my eye as I was leaving the store.... Phillips is offering PAR 38 and PAR 30 LED bulbs!! Looks like there is 8 LEDs per bulb of the 2 watt variety. Color temp is a "cool white" of 4200.
They also made an OUTDOOR version of the PAR 38 bulb, which would be interesting for aquarium usage.
Looks like some DIYer needs to experiment with buying these and swapping in some Cree, Edison, or Semi LEDs.
Detroit's oldest large LED tank! Est'd Jan 2005, went LED June 2009. 6' wide 130g reef, Sunbrite T10 LED tubes (3xGen 3 and 1xGen 1), mostly SPS, but chalices, other LPS, and a few softies too.
http://pjr-reef.blogspot.com/
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How much were they??
Par 30 was $49. Par 38 was $64 I think...
Detroit's oldest large LED tank! Est'd Jan 2005, went LED June 2009. 6' wide 130g reef, Sunbrite T10 LED tubes (3xGen 3 and 1xGen 1), mostly SPS, but chalices, other LPS, and a few softies too.
http://pjr-reef.blogspot.com/
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I saw them as well, very interesting. Perhaps I could set up the 15 gallon on with or two of these and see what happens.
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to funny, same thing happened to me at lowes yesterday! they had a few different types of LED's
If you can/know someone that deals with a Phillips wholesaler, there LED Bulbs have a longer life 40,000 HRS than the "Same' Phillips Bulbs sold at Home Depot 25,000 HRS.
This information came from the Phillips Salesperson I deal with.
The price is comparable but with a longer life.
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This sounds interesting!!
Actually, a local guy (shelby twp, MI) did this over a year ago.
He sells them through an aquarium store online called Nanotuners which gets good reviews and definitely is on the cutting edge of lighting technology in reefs. I've seen the lights and they're pretty cool.
http://www.nanotuners.com/product_info.php?cPath=74&products_id=623
There's also a ripoff version that just came out a few weeks ago (I say ripoff because it's literally the exact same thing but with fewer optics choices) that is available from ecoexotic.
Last edited by ajmckay; 06-18-2010 at 12:30 AM.
He is the lighting advisor here! Evil66 is his userid.
+1 evilc66 is awesome. Hasn't been active much lately on the reef forums though.
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