I think this is a great article, and I agree you get what you pay for, so if your gonna upgrade to LED lighting for your aquarium buy the best right off the top with the 5 year warranty, because if you have a 1 year warranty , and your light quits, you may as well stuck to your metal halide, where you need to replace your bulbs every 6 to 10 months, a lot cheaper..
Revised 7/7/16
In this article, I will interview a couple of lessor known, but growing in popularity Aquarium LED light fixtures due to a Northwest aquarium forums promotion of these Chinese fixtures. These are all made in the same Chinese factory with simply different names.
[1] The Ocean Revive/Evergrow utilize better drivers than many Chinese made LEDs and are also reef capable, but at nearly 2-3 times the energy wattage input as required by a top aquarium LED (120 watts versus 30 watts for the same PUR).
What is interesting, is the owner of Ocean Revive claims: “the prototypes were built in the garage and tested on our own tanks”.
HOWEVER the Ocean Revive and Evergrow are the same LED; don’t believe me, give them a close up look!!
Quote Source: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2428081
The draw back to these LEDs is that they utilize current reduction technology, which can alter spectrum. This…
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