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As you probably already know Kessil, of horticulture LED fame offers a 36w LED pendant designed for reef aquarium lighting. The A150w as it's called is available in three color temperatures, only one of which is of interest to reef aquarists with a penchant for accurate color rendering and high-PUR outputs such as myself (spectrograph on the left).
I'm sure you've heard about EcoTech Marine's latest product from all of the "me too" aquarium blogs that are out there these days: EcoTech is yet another company making a foray into reef aquarium LED lighting, and yet another company to do so with what seems to be barely, if any orginality or any improvement in technology.
Using off-the-shelf Cree and Osram emitters that are made for household lighting, not photosynthetic invertebrate illumination, the Radion XR30 reef aquarium led light appears to me to be obsolete before launch. Here's why:
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