viktorlantos
Aquascaper
I had a chance to play with these units in the past weeks. I used many other manufacturer's product before, but did not thought I will have new experiences with this.
Before I used Aquasky I used TMC units for over 2 years, Vertex Illumilux units, Aqualigher units, some cheapo LED units, SMD units too. So I believe I have enough experience to compare them with a planted tank viewpoint.
So why this unit shocked me and surprised me?
Aquasky LED is powerful. Strange as it has over 60 LED but none of them high power LED's like Vertex or TMC. But the overall impression is that it is a very balanced light unit.
With this much LED I had a feeling that this is a perfect clone of a T5 lamp. Very balanced light, almost no shady areas. Plenty light everywhere. Colour render is also different than other LEDs.
Yeah there's a little trade off. No shimmering. This is not that hard to accept if you see a lot of LEDs. LED's shimmering and sparkling effect is a bit too much compare to a halide light. After a time this could be disturbing in my mind. Actually I have a little headache if I watch them too much. Does not happen with HQI.
So someone will miss it, I do not have problem with that especially the light we get on the other side and how the tanks looks below that.
Another negative thing is the missing dimmer unit which would be useful with the larger bro.
A single 601 unit with 30W power is already perform well. Actually when I've seen the single unit I thought this is crazy to put a dual 602 unit above a 60cm tank. And I was right. ADA says that a dual unit is equal to a 150W HQI light. For me this looked even stronger. It is ok to put it over on a light demanding tank, as ADA recommend, but this is a light cannon even for me who always live on the bright side
Without pushing the brand this LED is really something you need to experience. For me this is the first unit from all the LED what I've seen what is comparable to our favourite T5 and HQI lights. Something at least happened in the LED space in the past 5 years or so.
4x24 over on a 60cm tank @ISO 640
Aquasky 601 @ISO 400
As you can see light is almost the same. No hard shadows, green colour render is nice.
Check out this one:
602 and 601 lights. In the back 4x54W ATI light.....
The brightness is clearly visible.
The sexiest LED ever. The LEGs looks awesome in real life. As the legs are not fixed you can push that back if you need to do maintenance. It is easy to move.
I have to tell you that this was the first time when I had to shut down one of the unit in the dual version. It was extremely powerful. Will do another test with stems and how it's affect the colours there, but a simple minimal tank is a photon rocket
If you have a chance see it for yourself. Pretty different experience than we had before with LEDs.
Before I used Aquasky I used TMC units for over 2 years, Vertex Illumilux units, Aqualigher units, some cheapo LED units, SMD units too. So I believe I have enough experience to compare them with a planted tank viewpoint.
So why this unit shocked me and surprised me?
Aquasky LED is powerful. Strange as it has over 60 LED but none of them high power LED's like Vertex or TMC. But the overall impression is that it is a very balanced light unit.
With this much LED I had a feeling that this is a perfect clone of a T5 lamp. Very balanced light, almost no shady areas. Plenty light everywhere. Colour render is also different than other LEDs.
Yeah there's a little trade off. No shimmering. This is not that hard to accept if you see a lot of LEDs. LED's shimmering and sparkling effect is a bit too much compare to a halide light. After a time this could be disturbing in my mind. Actually I have a little headache if I watch them too much. Does not happen with HQI.
So someone will miss it, I do not have problem with that especially the light we get on the other side and how the tanks looks below that.
Another negative thing is the missing dimmer unit which would be useful with the larger bro.
A single 601 unit with 30W power is already perform well. Actually when I've seen the single unit I thought this is crazy to put a dual 602 unit above a 60cm tank. And I was right. ADA says that a dual unit is equal to a 150W HQI light. For me this looked even stronger. It is ok to put it over on a light demanding tank, as ADA recommend, but this is a light cannon even for me who always live on the bright side
Without pushing the brand this LED is really something you need to experience. For me this is the first unit from all the LED what I've seen what is comparable to our favourite T5 and HQI lights. Something at least happened in the LED space in the past 5 years or so.
4x24 over on a 60cm tank @ISO 640
Aquasky 601 @ISO 400
As you can see light is almost the same. No hard shadows, green colour render is nice.
Check out this one:
602 and 601 lights. In the back 4x54W ATI light.....
The brightness is clearly visible.
The sexiest LED ever. The LEGs looks awesome in real life. As the legs are not fixed you can push that back if you need to do maintenance. It is easy to move.
I have to tell you that this was the first time when I had to shut down one of the unit in the dual version. It was extremely powerful. Will do another test with stems and how it's affect the colours there, but a simple minimal tank is a photon rocket
If you have a chance see it for yourself. Pretty different experience than we had before with LEDs.