wa1tx Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Guess this will be the next "big" thing. http://glassbox-design.com/2009/diy-plasma-light-aquarium-luxim/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Not sure it is relevant anymore, as the article is over 2 years old. A flag went up when it said the LED market had stalled ... and I was like what?? That is all I see now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+olaggie01 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 That article is from 2009. There are a few commercial plasma lights out there, but they haven't caught on yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa1tx Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 I realize the article is old, but have been hearing talk of it recently. Will be interesting to see what happens anyway. I am still not sold on LEDs giving me the growth that my MH lights do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaJohn Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 LED's have been shown to produce as much growth as MH time and time again over the last 2-3 years. If you don't want to drink the cool ade thats up to you . Im sure with the cost of plasma they will be like the betamax was to vhs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestep Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 The plasma's might catch on for large tanks. I don't think they can dethrone or even compete with LED's for smaller usage. One of the best things about LED's is they scale in either direction. A 15W MH would be pretty useless, and a plasma would be even more so. Here's a pretty good recent article as well: http://reefbuilders.com/2011/04/07/gavita-plasma-reef/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hydro Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 LED's in my industry have never been a good option, even these days. Not enough light penetration for tall plant canopies although some farmers use them for crops less than 12" tall....lettuce and herbs. We have customers with big gardens calling us complaining about having to get rid of thoudands of dollars worth of LED fixtures and go back to MH and HPS. Plasma on the other hand has a chance IMO, its seems to be a cross between LED and MH. Its runs cooler than a MH but not as cools as LED. It puts on an incredible amount of light for such a small bulb. Imagine the lumens put out by a 400 watt MH from a bulb just larger than an LED. It doesn't put out much radiation like LED, but has much more bulb heat than an LED. Plasma has the ability to put out many spectrums of light from a single bulb, pretty cool. Don't count out plasma just yet, I see them at every trade show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa1tx Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 Aquajohn what objective experiments are published that show led lights grow as well as MH? I have not seen anything objective other than someone saying it worked it their tank. I will gladly drink the kool-aide if I see objective evidence they are as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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