I just converted to all Led's.Allot of people are doing this so I thought I would show you the diffrence with Apex charts.The first link shows power consumption and temp variation with MH.As you can see the power use is very large running four 250w MH.The swings in temp are huge also which means the chiller ran allot.These amps are not shown on the chart but my chiller pulls 7.2 amps or 864 watts.That's allot of power when all the lights are running.The other chart is after replaceing all lights inclueding the T5's on the fuge.I basicly dropped my power consumption down to 8 amps and when the chiller is on it goes to 15 amps.The chiller basicly now only comes on twice a day now.I believe when I elminate the mag pump that feeds the frag tank the temp swing will become even more spread out.I'm hopeing this info will help anyone on the fence of makeing this change and show the massive diffrence in cost of operateing a system and how LED's can make this alittle less costly.If you consider power consumption savings and bulb replacement costs these payoff in fair amount of time.
key to apex colors
Red is the PH
Blue is temp
Green is the amps for power dc8 #1
Purple is the amps for power dc8#2
Teal is the amps for power dc8#3
Last edited by binford4000; 05-26-2011 at 09:27 AM.
The LED difference
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