Razor LED light by MaxSpect will be officially announced at InterZoo 2012

By Jake Adams on May 08, 2012

The Razor LED from MaxSpect is an impossibly thin LED light fixture with brand name LEDs, some degree of controllability and a specially designed passive cooling heatsink which helps the Razor LED maintain its figure. Details of the MaxSpect Razor LED are scant since it won’t be officially unveiled until InterZoo 2012, but we’ve got enough to go on about the Razor LED to make it one not-to-be-missed LED light at the big show next week in Germany. razor led maxspect

The Razor LED is a 150 watt passively cooled light, not a 150 watt equivalent, but 150 watts of top shelf LED light proper with several shades of blue and white and a few colors in between with a built in timer and a couple channels of color control. Now are you ready for the estimated price? You might want to sit down for this, but MaxSpect is shooting for the 150 watt Razor LED to cost only $450!

The Razor LED won’t have individually replaceable LEDs like the Mazarra but each module will be user serviceable, and the details of the lenses are also unknown. The MaxSpect Razor LED will come in two models, a Razor M10,000 and a Razor M16,000 both named after the approximate color temperature of all LED colors at full brightness. We’ll try to get more details on specs, size and LED colors so stay tuned for more information on MaxSpect’s originally designed Razor LED aquarium light.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=555379745 Christopher Jung

Beautiful
CaliReefer

Impressive looking. I like it.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

They finally used the cluster design of the Radion, GHL and Vertex… I guess that makes the design of the Mazzara a bit outdated.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3PQR2S2EAZUDJKVYUCKLCWJ37Q Micheal

are those heatsink fins I see onthe bottom of the fixture? They’re facing the wrong way for optimal heat transfer aren’t they?
JakeAG

Nice to see some LED companies like Maxspect, AI, Kessel, and Sunbrite (to mention a few) making competitively priced lights. Hopefully this will push other not so competitively price units from Vertex, Pacific Sun, and GHL (presumably!) down.
JakeAdams

the fins of the Razor LED like the maxspect have no “side” – it’s just open fins which allows for air to passively flow through them, carrying heat along with it.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3PQR2S2EAZUDJKVYUCKLCWJ37Q Micheal

It wasn’t too long ago that AI was considered one of the more expensive fixtures.
http://profile.yahoo.com/2B7RUTMXKTOGGOCTRIJ53BPCAI Steve

How long is this fixture?

I am looking to possibly get it since it is not a typical hanging fixture. I can place it right over my aquarium.
http://marine-engineers.org/ Michael Rice

It’s good to see some of the high end LED companies shooting at the little guy lately. First the Vega and now this one. Should push LEDs even further into the hobby.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HDOSXOA3FGYKCHZQK2YD6AAHWY Ryan

i like it
http://www.facebook.com/Maxspect Maxspect LED

Both design (cluster vs individual) has their PROs and CONs, I wouldn’t say the individual chip design is “outdated”, it has its advantages and the Mazarra will continue to use that design.
http://www.facebook.com/Maxspect Maxspect LED

It’s 60cm wide (approximately 24″).
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

Outdated??? how do you figure that???? Mathieu your judgement is clouded by your anti -Maxspect attitude which I see in all your posts on the French & some English forums… I get it you like another brand thats fine, but you got to stop spewing your anti maxspect rhetoric all the time its getting old lol.

Maxspect now offers us hobbiest a choice, interchangeable or cluster ? and this is a real good thing .
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

Choice thats what its about and you have done that!

cheers
http://www.facebook.com/people/Frode-Numan/659084887 Frode Numan

Looks good. Can’t wait to see more specs. Every day I wait longer with ordering a LED-light for my 110x70x60(wh) cm tank gives me more to think about for less money…

Depending on the LEDs in this fixture, I might even get away with one of those?
Or two, and dim them way down…
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

This is one slick looking unit, thats what I have always like about the Maxspect LED product line they are always improving and innovating bringing new options to the Aquatic market.

I recently ordered 6 x Mazzara P`s and should be receiving them this week , and was told that Maxspect has now included a new ball joint, same as the new X to be unveiled at Inter-Zoo .

As said above Maxspect your always “innovating and improving” !
Curtis Kramer

I can’t wait to hear more details about this. I look forward to hearing about connectivity, control, and modularity.
Math Brisk

hmmm so I would need 2 over my 90g. They are definitely looking great and the price is not bad at all considering the whole LED market. Still twice as expensive as the equivalent T5Ho or MH combo though A step in the right direction nonetheless
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

It seems I have a fan! By outdated, I mean that using tightly focusing optics on evenly spread LEDs gives bad color mixing and color shadowing. The fact that they are moving to clusters of LEDs seemed to confirm that point. I’m by no means against the company. The G2 was a great ramp at that time and I like the design and price of this new one. The point is I think they dropped the ball with the mazzara. It was way too much expensive if you compare to the competition. If you’re following my comments, you could take to time to try to argue about it, that’s one of the point of forums. Working in photonics, I have a special interest in reef lighting, it’s just natural that I like these discussions.
SolidStateLEDLighting

If they are bragging about how thin it is – where is the measurement? Also – only 39 LEDs for $450? I never liked the “hot spot” clustered LED concept. It’s a bear to accurately light specific zones in the aquarium AND it’s very tough to cool correctly. It does look pretty. I would be curious to know if the passive cooling worked correctly. Fins should jet out from heat source – not parallel it. Changeable LEDs? Changeable Lenses? Replaceable drivers?
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

Mat definitely not a fan but you truly amuse me,
I come to question your intentions since every time Maxspect is mentioned you trash it with your rhetoric .
It would be nice to see you post the things like you just mentioned after I had to call you out….
“The G2 was a great ramp at that time and I like the design and price of this new one”

Mat you have just lied, by saying the G2 was a great light in many of your other posts in the french forums you speak poorly of it, in favour of your preferred brand once again shows you are biased and never compare apples with apples.

Its a pitty ,I would figure with your insight in photonics it would be more credible info coming from you, but as it stands in my book you have no credibility with the negative attitude you have towards other brands. My position on this is due to what I have read where you always come off being biased leaning towards another specific one brand and never any other led mfg product.
It would be nice with your background to see you post the pros of other led products.

The fact is Maxspect is a good led fixture mfg. They are not the only one there are others and each has there pros and cons, after that it boils down to personal choice.

Thats it no more ranting from me lol…back to the Razor
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

If it was only rhetoric, it would be easy to disprove. I said the G2 WAS a great ramp. There wasn’t much other low prices choices at that time and it was as good as any LED products. Now my G2 is on my frag tank and LEDs are often burning (10 years?), black paint is ripping, cooling fan is failing and overall color rendition is bad compared to my DT. Recently you would be dumb to buy one at full price, that’s it.

LEDs are changing fast and manufacturers are including more and more specifications. Like you, I have preferences and I think it’s fare I share it. There’s alot of LEDs products on the market, few are competitive and some are just ripoff. I didn’t say that mazzara were bad fixtures, just that there is better choices at this time with regards to cost and specifications. I think it’s fare to critics products that can cost thousands of dollars to someone that don’t know much about it and get most of their infos from biased sellers.

You are welcome to show results with of your brand new mazzara in the near future. The only exemple we can see on forums in the region comes from the seller itself by now.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cole-Valentine/665370034 Cole Valentine

So is there going to be a controller like the Mazarra have? Im just thinking about these in my 300 DD and would be a very very big pain if I have to remove the canopy to mess with the settings, and since my wife has to help me move it she will not be happy either lol.
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

I will post some pics at the forums you frequent soon, since once again you mislead people by saying that the only examples you see is from the seller…what a crock! My hats off to Maxspect like you mentioned leds are improving and they are right on top of it .
I made my choice due to all the users who has it online,in store and pics of maxspect owners that have tanks with them and they perform very well. Yours does not because you go and play with the insides welding other parts ect, this is what I read you wanted to do sometime ago then you blame the fixture go figure matman. your unfounded babble(rhetoric) is easily disproved due to your biased opinion.
I should but will not ,since they r in french post all the negative posts you have done in the past and then you tell me if you r not very biased towards one specific brand.
Matman, I just feel you go overboard on your negative hunt for anything maxspect, I like your little Nano its well maintained and looks great and I give you that.

Matman, where do you by your replacement bulbs if there always burning??
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

I don’t remember seeing anyone posting frequent pictures on Quebec forums. I’m sure there’s plenty on major american or european forums, but I was talking of people in our region. I don’t ask you to start arguing here over my previous arguments on other forums, but it sucks to just say months after that it’s simply unfounded babble, adding simply that you love the ramp.

I didn’t say it didn’t perform well. People got some nice results with even simple DIY LEDs ramps. My point is that for the same amount of light, it’s much more expensive than other popular products and it’s misleading to say people that it’s much more advanced. I have been a harder critics of other LED products, it is not targeted toward maxspect itself.

FYI, I didn’t play with welding or anything yet. It was an option I was considering when my G2 was over my DT so I could add more recently available LEDs. I think I wrote about that like a year ago.. you’re really following my comments. I had 2 UV burned on me in the past and I replaced them. Right now I have 3 blue LEDs burned that I didn’t replace yet.

I don’t have any personnal interest in selling any brands. I just give my opinion to help people making what I think is good choices. Recently there was 2 or 3 brands of LEDs that I was recommanding as good quality/price ratio and it happens that they also seem to be the most popular ones over the internet, so I guess I’m not crazy. Next year, it might be something else. I think you give me too much bad intentions.
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

Do you ever realize how you come off matman? the reason why I know about all your posts is whenever I or anyone else inquires about maxspect you try everything to convince me or others otherwise I have seen it! Just last week a person posted he was debating to buy a mazzara or another brand and BANG there you are again putting it down stating ”I don’t see why you would even consider buying a mazzara” come on …Now you say you have nothing against maxspect or don’t target it…give me a break!You have a hidden agenda in going out of your way to target that product. Im sure if I connect the dots I will find out what your real intentions are….but I probably know already what that answer is.
This is becoming a drama so thats it for this conversation with you.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

This comment was related to a private conversation I had with the guy when he asked for my opinion on some issues a seller raised. Hidden agenda? man wtf… next time I make a comment that offends you, just say something about it.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

Speaking of “hidden agenda”, a little bird told me today that you would be business partner with the local maxspect distributor?
http://www.facebook.com/robin.lutchman Robin Lutchman

Nice try, 1 week later and this is what you come up with…you should not listen to little birds you know they can’t communicate with human beings right?

No hidden Maxspect agenda here….Actually the opposite and since you brought it up Im in the line of full-line pet product distribution and guess what they don’t sell maxspect, I prefer the maxspect led`s. thats my personal choice..
but once again it seems you have a problem with anyone who likes or wants a maxspect , and as usual resort to your trash talk .
Please Matman don’t bother me anymore with your childish babble.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

Man you take that seriously don’t you! So confrontational… what am I supposed to do with that? A simple: “no in no way am I financially related to a Laval petshop” would do.
Robin Lutchman

Ah matman are you high??
or you didn’t understand my reply,please read it again.
Now I understand something though, you work or have a arrangement with a certain petshop don’t you?
Robin Lutchman

hmm.. I just did liar.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

Absolutly not, simple hobbyist. It would be kinda stupid for me to work for a petshop in my personnal situation. But it’s the question I was asking you, since your strong fervor in defending the mazzara. So you’re telling me that all that new petshop stuff is not related to you, being that it’s your line of distribution?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathieu-Gagné/659241296 Mathieu Gagné

Liar?
menew2u

I’m buying a razor light woo hoo beautiful looking, slim and oh so sexy.
I have a 6′x2′x3′ have been waiting for something like this, I have had LEDS now for 5years and was told 10ys with warranty have no regrets, like anything you need upgrading sooner or later and mine is sooner Razor here I come!

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