12000 K Metal Halide Bulb - Sunburst

[fishinsouthga]

looking at this over at marine depot anyone have any thoughts about it?
12000 K Metal Halide Bulb - Sunburst

perhaps another suggestion? premium aquatics has a 175 10k for 49 bucks any thought on that one?

thanks

thomas

 

[Anonymous]

I've used them, and liked them. Not as blue as a few of the 10K bulbs I've used, but still they give good color on corals.

Peace,

Chip

 

[Tackett]

ive seen 20000 k bulbs before and was kinda curious about those, any comments?

 

[ZooKeeper1]

I was just readin a study regarding PAR and MH's the XM 10 outperformed most other bulbs, except for the Iwasaki.
I have a 175 Ushio 10K on a 15, the color is beautiful, crisp whitish blue. On my 55 I have 250 AB 13 K's, and they are more white than the 10 k.
The 20 K's have alot les PAR than most of the other K ratings. Too blue for my tastes, but they are becoming popular.

 

[golfish]

Chip, we disagree again

I've used the 400 watt Sunburst and thought it was way too blue and too dim. My Radiums are white compared to the Sunburst bulbs.

 

[Anonymous]

Many have reported problems with Sunburst bulbs. However, I have never used them. I am currently using 3x 175 watt 20K XMs and they look great. They are blue, but not as blue as I expected. It reminds me of what it looks like when snorkeling in Puerto Rico(like a 10-20 foot depth). Plus, the corals flouresce better under the blue light IMO.

 

[blastermqn]

The sunburst have enough first hand accounts of problems to simply make me shy away from them. Same with high K Coralvues.

My view of MH's is stay with 10ks of a known and reputed brand. Personally I don't like the deep blue of the high K types, but that's a personal preference.

 

[mountainbiker619]

I used to run dual sunburst...and I really liked them. I did not use any other lighting in conjunction. The will start off more on the blue side, but will leave once they burn in.

 

[tonythetiger26]

I always felt sunburst (especially at that wattage) to be a lil too much.

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[Ben1]

5 year old post? Anyhow I heard the sunburst failed early and becuase of this never tried them.

 

[Anonymous]

Not a good way to subtly spam the board, by necroposting...