Satellite Freshwater LED+ PAR Readings

[krisw]

Sorry for promoting my own link, but I thought ya'll may be interested in PAR readings for my latest LED fixture. The Satellite Freshwater LED+ from Current USA is a really nice fixture for shallower aquariums, producing high-light with a ton of features (remote control included):

http://www.guitarfish.org/2013/05/30/sa ... r-readings

[tug]

The presets make the Satellite more versatile. Very nice. It's too bad we can't check the PAR at a greater depth.

Please add your PAR readings to Andrey's spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... tRWc#gid=0

Do you have the PAR readings from your Finnex RAY 2?

[krisw]

Mike, I'm hoping to check the PAR on my 40G tank when I get the chance. I did take PAR readings for my other fixtures, but I haven't had a chance to write them up. That'll be my next blog post. :-p

[tug]

Thanks Kris,
At that price the light has a lot going for it. It sounds as if Satellite can be used effectively on a shallow tank and the full spectrum mode might even provide enough PAR for a deeper tank. Or, are some of the features lost on deeper tanks?

This is probably asking too much but can you program it to automatically cycle through the different presets?

[krisw]

Mike, I doubt you'll get high light at deeper tanks, but it might be a low/medium replacement. One person on TPT reported:

The PAR value for 1 SAT+ 12″ deep is 36 micromols and at 24″ is at 21 micromols.

I don't believe you can program it to cycle through different modes. You can program your own light color/levels though.