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    estanoche - Reefkeeper CR Member
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    curiosity question.... do the blue and white LEDs put out the same par? What is the rationale behind just dimming the whites? (other than, well it looks good, and seems logical, haha)
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    Quote Originally Posted by estanoche View Post
    curiosity question.... do the blue and white LEDs put out the same par? What is the rationale behind just dimming the whites? (other than, well it looks good, and seems logical, haha)
    Good question...I'll have to do some measuring and report back.

    I decided to dim the whites so I could actually be able to see when it is in "cloud" mode. It is very hard to tell the difference between 12% and 20% with the naked eye (at least for me). The PAR meter definitely shows the difference...clouds with that amount of change would be almost unnoticeable if they were both dimmed the same amount.

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