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Posted: February 24 2015 at 6:03pm |
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Okay so I am thinking about upgrading my Light bar but am wondering about what you ran into power consumption wise for t5s over MH.
The next question is How did your power consumption wise for LEDs.
(The trends mean nothing to me) that being said Feedback would be awesome let me know what you have experienced
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Posted: February 24 2015 at 6:18pm |
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I went from nearly 1000W of MH to about 250W of LEDs. I ran 400W Mh over another tank and switched to nearly that in T5. I wouldn't switch from MH to T5 for energy savings.
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Posted: February 24 2015 at 6:18pm |
LED use the same amount of electricity as halides or as t5. People mistakenly think they can drop their powerbill by switching over.... but many people have found that not to be the case.
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Posted: February 24 2015 at 6:20pm |
Nevermind- Nikki dropped her electricity. No one else has. You can swap out 250 watt halides for 200 watt led fixtures.
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Posted: February 24 2015 at 6:25pm |
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Thank you this actually Is exactly what I was looking for. So with this info my question is if you are using 200w LEDs you probably don't crank them up so are they using less power then or am I way off the mark?
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Posted: February 24 2015 at 6:26pm |
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Just read your sig adam and I am thinking I may have to make the drive could pay my fees while I am at it.
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Posted: June 06 2015 at 8:57pm |
So figured i would share some findings. My power bill averaged around $100 after adding my two AI LED fixtures I am down to $60 which i found interesting and worth sharing My Wife is happy too 
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Posted: June 06 2015 at 9:15pm |
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Remember that even though you are replacing your other lights with similar or the same wattage of LEDs. Rarely do LED users run their lights at 100% power. So even if it's the same wattage, chances are they won't use that much power. I have never seen an LED setup not use less power that other lighting types.
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Posted: June 07 2015 at 9:25am |
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When I switched to LED's I looked at it this way. I went from 1230 watts of MH, PC Combo to 1200 Watts of LED. Not much savings except I was only running LED's at 75%. However, the LEDs put out WAYYYYYY less heat than the MH and I figured I saved big on cooling expense in the spring, summer, fall and didn't have to open my window in the winter to cool my office. (OK, no savings in the winter on heat.)
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Posted: June 07 2015 at 9:48am |
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1200w of leds? Holy moly
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Posted: June 08 2015 at 8:39am |
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I was not where I could look up the wattage of my lights so I guessed about 200 watts each. OK, so I'm terrible at guessing. lets try 72 watts each for a total of 432 watts. Those running at 75% do make a huge difference over my 1230 watts of MH and PC. (This figure was not a guess.)
Still for me the biggest savings was in heat. Since I work the in room with the tank all day the less heat aspect made a huge difference in my daily comfort aside from the difference it made to my wallet.
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Posted: June 08 2015 at 12:40pm |
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Hahaha...omg...I was going to keel over if you were running 1200w of leds.
Keeping the same wattage of leds as mh or pc doesn't make sense.
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Posted: June 08 2015 at 12:51pm |
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i run 165 W Leds, but only run them at 50-60% most of the time.. so really, its around 80-100 watts of usage, plus like will mentioned, there are not heating/cooling costs to factor in.
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Posted: June 08 2015 at 2:37pm |
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Hahaha...omg...I was going to keel over if you were running 1200w of leds.
Keeping the same wattage of leds as mh or pc doesn't make sense. |
You should see the bank of LED's over my tank. 1 for every square inch of the top of my 180 gallon tank. J/k of course.  Actually I have 6 AI Sol's on my 180. It's probably overkill, but I didn't like shadows I was getting with only 4 so I added 2 more. Since we are speaking of power consumption I will say that now that my tank is empty and nothing including the lights are running, my power bill has come way down. My wife thinks I should keep it that way, but we all know I can't live tank-less for very long. Right now I only have he Koi in the pond giving me my daily fix, but that doesn't quite do it in the winter.
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Posted: June 15 2015 at 9:12pm |
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So how high off the tank are you guys running your LEDs? I have mine pretty high up and have to run blues and Whites at 90% and reds and greens at 70% to get the light amount my halides/pc put out. Despite that I still dropped my power bill. I guess if I trusted my sea swirl more to not splash I would lower them (maybe time to buy some locline)
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