Aquarium Systems created a new series of freshwater and marine LED bars, and today we have in our DaniReef LAB the new ceiling light ASF Reef Blue da 90-120 cm for marine aquarium.
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LED bars are the most performing and covenient way to manage the light in your aquarium. They’re reasonably cheap and they can be gradually purchased in the sufficient number depending on our needs. Maybe one for the fish, a couple for soft corals, and more for LPS and SPS. Compared to a lighting system you couldn’t dim the LED channels but, according to me, you can overcome this problem by turning on the bars singularly. Besides, today you can buy external controllers to dim the bars individually. Maximum ease and customization, as if we had a much more complete lighting system.
Technical characteristics of the LED ASF Proten LED Reef Blue bars
- Driver: external;
- Input Voltage: 230VAC;
- Frequency: 50-60Hz;
- Power consumption: 27 watts;
- Length: 90 cm;
- Price for the public: 129,99 euro.
Used LED in the bar
- Purple LED 400 nm: 12
- Blue LED 420 nm: 48
- Blue LED 460 nm: 84
- Blue LED 680 nm: 6
- Blue LED 700 nm: 6
Total used LED: 156. Given the declared power consumption, which is 27 watt, they are 0,15 watt LED, considering some watt for the electronic control.
Our video of the ASF Proten LED Reef Blue 90-120 bars
In this video we show the bars and how we do the PAR measurement. The video is in Italian, but you can turn the English subtitles on. Enjoy!
The peculiarity of the ASF Proten LED Reef Blue
These LED Blue bars have the main part of their LED included in the Blue domain, about the 90%. Still, they have a small portion of LED in the Red domain. This choice has been made in order to bring out the corals’ fluorescence while keeping an almost complete blue illumination. The lamp has 2 indipendent channels which are activated with a convenient two-way switch.
It’s also available an external bluetooth controller that can manage two indipendent lamps, and that also allows to dimm the channels of each LED bar. But today we speak about the bar without the controller.
The Proten LED of the ASF have two holes on the top, as you can see in the picture, to which you can connect two metal terminals for hanging the bars to the glass of the aquarium. On the top of the terminals you have to insert some plastic clips so that the laps don’t touch the glass. Moreover, you have in dotation other clips that fits perfectly for the installation in T5 or T8. In our video you can see how to install the terminals, so don’t miss it!
Thanks to these terminals you can use the Proten LED Reef Blue bar in aquariums between 90 and 120 cm of length.
All the values we measured and our working method called DaniReef LAB are on page two.
