I'm curious as to how you guys using LEDs run your schedules. Do you still run them as long as T5s per day? Also, with all of these new mixed color LED fixtures, do you use one color longer than the other?
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LED schedule
- Thread starter Tazmaniancowboy
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kevin
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Why are you copying my 11:30am-9:30pm schedule!! lol
kevin, you're my reefing idol duh!
Since I upgraded to LEDs, I run a more "tropical" lighting schedule:
- Blues on at 7:30 AM, off at 10 PM - Intensity starts at 10% and ramps up to 100% at "midday" (which is 4:15 PM), then ramps down to 10% before going off at 10 PM.
- Whites on at 10 AM, off at 7:30 PM - Intensity starts at 10% and ramps up to 80% at "midday" (still 4:15 PM), then ramps down to 10% before going off at 7:30 PM.
- Moonlights come on at 10 PM (when regular blues go off) and go off at midnight. (They are a bit too bright to run all night)
- Sump/Fuge Light comes on at 10 PM and turns off at 7:30 AM (opposite my blues).
My sunrise/sunset ramping is based on a parabola function (not exactly a linear increase/decrease to/from the midday). I could also have set it up to a slope function where I could have it ramp up to max % for a specified time period and then ramp back down. For example, it could be 0% to 100% from 7:30 AM until 10 AM, then stay at 100% until 2:00 PM, then ramp back down to 0% from 2 - 10 PM. That would give a longer period of "full light" but the parabola is a more natural sunrise/sunset effect so I use that one instead.
- Blues on at 7:30 AM, off at 10 PM - Intensity starts at 10% and ramps up to 100% at "midday" (which is 4:15 PM), then ramps down to 10% before going off at 10 PM.
- Whites on at 10 AM, off at 7:30 PM - Intensity starts at 10% and ramps up to 80% at "midday" (still 4:15 PM), then ramps down to 10% before going off at 7:30 PM.
- Moonlights come on at 10 PM (when regular blues go off) and go off at midnight. (They are a bit too bright to run all night)
- Sump/Fuge Light comes on at 10 PM and turns off at 7:30 AM (opposite my blues).
My sunrise/sunset ramping is based on a parabola function (not exactly a linear increase/decrease to/from the midday). I could also have set it up to a slope function where I could have it ramp up to max % for a specified time period and then ramp back down. For example, it could be 0% to 100% from 7:30 AM until 10 AM, then stay at 100% until 2:00 PM, then ramp back down to 0% from 2 - 10 PM. That would give a longer period of "full light" but the parabola is a more natural sunrise/sunset effect so I use that one instead.