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Duke

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what is your hydro rate in your area? how long are the lights on per day?

you will be adding 500w of electricity... so at .13 $ a KW/hr your looking at 7ish cents every hour the lights are on.. and that's at our peak rate.. if you lights are running at off times/weekends the cost per hour will go down. but say 60 cents a day is a very high estimate if I was doing it.. so .60x30 your looking at 18$ per month, but this is all dependant on your hydro rate. and here our rates drop signifigantly on weekends and off peak hours. so its probably a lot less than 18$ per month.
 
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Seems like a ton of light.  I have never run MH, but I have 6 T5 on my 75 and can grow SPS fine.  Others may have experience with a similar light though.
 
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now I have a lead on a 6 bulb T5 HO for about $350 in the box so I guess what I should be asking is would the 6 bulb do what I need?

I just posted a video of my 90 in the members tank section with the 4 bulb that I have now.
 
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That light looks very similar to my old lighting system i had. It was made by Odyssea. I would contact the seller and find out the make. If it is Odyssea, DO NOT BUY!!!! There Lights are junk. the bulbs are a complete pain to change, the reflectors are complete garbage and the 2 external ballasts for the MH are sketchy at best. Found them to get very hot and don't always turn on. They are also not csa approved.
 
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nitro069 link said:
That light looks very similar to my old lighting system i had. It was made by Odyssea. I would contact the seller and find out the make. If it is Odyssea, DO NOT BUY!!!! There Lights are junk. the bulbs are a complete pain to change, the reflectors are complete garbage and the 2 external ballasts for the MH are sketchy at best. Found them to get very hot and don't always turn on. They are also not csa approved.
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Thanks for the info nitro, I will find out for sure!
 
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Duke link said:
what is your hydro rate in your area? how long are the lights on per day?

you will be adding 500w of electricity... so at .13 $ a KW/hr your looking at 7ish cents every hour the lights are on.. and that's at our peak rate.. if you lights are running at off times/weekends the cost per hour will go down. but say 60 cents a day is a very high estimate if I was doing it.. so .60x30 your looking at 18$ per month, but this is all dependant on your hydro rate. and here our rates drop significantly on weekends and off peak hours. so its probably a lot less than 18$ per month.
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I appreciate the math Duke  ;D
 
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reefin link said:
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what is your hydro rate in your area? how long are the lights on per day?

you will be adding 500w of electricity... so at .13 $ a KW/hr your looking at 7ish cents every hour the lights are on.. and that's at our peak rate.. if you lights are running at off times/weekends the cost per hour will go down. but say 60 cents a day is a very high estimate if I was doing it.. so .60x30 your looking at 18$ per month, but this is all dependant on your hydro rate. and here our rates drop significantly on weekends and off peak hours. so its probably a lot less than 18$ per month.
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I appreciate the math Duke  ;D
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no worries at all, hope it helped a bit.. it always seems worse when your thinking about it.. But even 500w of lighting isn't going to change your bills significantly.
 
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500 for the light is a bit much, alot of people are trying to get away from MH, The main concern i have with the light is that it's impossible to do any maintenance on the tank.
 
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That light looks very similar to my old lighting system i had. It was made by Odyssea. I would contact the seller and find out the make. If it is Odyssea, DO NOT BUY!!!! There Lights are junk. the bulbs are a complete pain to change, the reflectors are complete garbage and the 2 external ballasts for the MH are sketchy at best. Found them to get very hot and don't always turn on. They are also not csa approved.
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Csa approved? Does that really matter since 90% or more of the members on here prob. Don't have a csa approved fixture. Ati, tek, any diy led, basicly all of them arnt. There is only a couple that are when I did some research on it. And they are shitty fixtures. (T5s)
 
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I haven't checked lately to see if it was still for sale since I didn't get a response from the seller as yet.

I'm thinking I'm going to go with the 6 bulb T5 fixture any way!
 
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jones02 link said:
[quote author=nitro069 link=topic=3942.msg35075#msg35075 date=1357491276]
That light looks very similar to my old lighting system i had. It was made by Odyssea. I would contact the seller and find out the make. If it is Odyssea, DO NOT BUY!!!! There Lights are junk. the bulbs are a complete pain to change, the reflectors are complete garbage and the 2 external ballasts for the MH are sketchy at best. Found them to get very hot and don't always turn on. They are also not csa approved.
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Csa approved? Does that really matter since 90% or more of the members on here prob. Don't have a csa approved fixture. Ati, tek, any diy led, basicly all of them arnt. There is only a couple that are when I did some research on it. And they are shitty fixtures. (T5s)
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Good point. didn't realize that most fixtures are not csa approved. I found out my odyssea lights were garbage after i started having problems with the ballasts and did some more research after the fact. Doesn't change the fact(in my experience anyways) that these lights are garbage. I guess for me not being csa approved stuck out because the switch would turn green when i switched it on but the bulb would not turn on and the ballast overheated.

Ignorance on my part, i didnt even check if my ATI fixture was csa approved, just went on reviews and reputation :-[
 
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I grew SPS no problems whatsoever with my 6 x 54w T5HO Tek Lite Elite. That would be enough for a 90G tank as well easily. I would just upgrade lamps to ATI bulbs. 4 x AquaBlue Plus, 1 x Coral Plus and 1 x Purple Plus.
 
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