Solaris - PFO Lighting

[jeffalight]

Hi,
Has anyone used the Solaris PFO lighting? It sounds like it will give you better lighting that MH but without the heat. The PFO lighting is expensive put if you can subtract the cost of a chiller it is not that much more.
Thx

 

[acrylic51]

Sounds good to me, but IMO still to new to throw that kind of change around........And my thinking is why try to reinvent the wheel.....MH's have been around forever and have been affective.....There are ways to use MH's without the need for a chiller.....

 

[hydra]

Originally Posted by acrylic51
And my thinking is why try to reinvent the wheel.....MH's have been around forever and have been affective.....There are ways to use MH's without the need for a chiller.....
This is all very true but MH's were pretty expensive as well way back when. LED's are the future of most lighting I would think. They produce less heat are exceptionally stable so this should mean less spectrum shift over time and they don't really burn out. They get 50k hours of usage so changing bulbs is a thing of the past. Those Solaris panels look pretty slick with built in light controllers and ability to to do lunar cycles too which means it is gonna be pretty easy to set it all up and forget it. Right now they are pretty expensive but if you start factoring what you have to pay for new bulbs and less electricity usage over the course of the next 5 years or so they start to seem more reasonable. When they hit about 50% of the current pricing I think they will start to become more mainstream. It all comes down to how well corals etc. are gonna like them but I don't see why a mix of proper spectrum LED's wouldn't be able to give em what they want.
-Jerry C.

 

[acrylic51]

Never said they didn't have possibilities or what not, just not very practical on pricing standpoint, and they haven't been around long enough to know how well things will grow and respond IMO......Only time will tell and as price comes down.....