So I made some changes to one of my two LED pendants in an attempt to get some more natural color rendering, more red and less washed out purple.. I left the other pendant for a comparison. Both started with 18 Cool white, 18 Royal Blue Cree XR-E LEDs and the modifications to one of them are as follows:
12 Royal Blue (the original XRE's running at about 750mA)
8 Blue (new XPE running at about 750mA)
4 Warm white (new XRE running at about 750mA)
6 Neutral White (new XPG running at about 500mA)
6 Cool White (the original XRE running at about 500mA)
So I've unfortunately "wasted" about 18 of my original CW & RB XRE LEDs in this new configuration but wow I love the color difference.
The new configuration is a crisp white, warmer light but still plenty of blue for that unnatural pop that we love Looking up at the water surface from the front of the tank the unmodified pendant is that drab purplish washed out color, the new just looks white. I'll see if I can get some pictures that show the difference though I doubt it will be very visible.
As suspected, it's hard to really get a picture to show the difference you can see with the naked eye. Even shooting in raw and matching the settings exactly after the fact it's still tough so I've got a single coral, and a FTS.
CW+RB only, left - New combo right for both pics.
I think the FTS you can tell a little better since it was forced to shoot them together, so you can see the left is more of that sort of purple-ish washed out tone. *shrug* only so much you can do with a camera, even with manual settings
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