Radion TIR Lenses finally let loose by Ecotech Marine

By on Aug 08, 2012

First revealed at InterZoo, the Ecotech Marine TIR lens clusters are finally available for purchase. If you’ve been waiting to get your tentacles on a set of Ecotech Marine’s TIR (total internal reflection) cluster lens for your Radion XR30 LED light, your time has finally come. Just announced this afternoon, visitors to Ecotech Marine’s retailers and parts store wil be able to boost their Radion’s light output for just $30 per pair of TIR lenses. How much of a performance boost we talking about?

These light plots demonstrate the light output of the Radion with the current LED reflectors on the left, and the light output of a Radion using the new Radion TIR Lens

According to Ecotech Marine, the TIR lens boosts peak PAR output by up to 45% and the average light output of a 24 by 24 inch footprint can expect 23% more photons at a depth of 12 inches. Getting that kind of increased total light output is very impressive, especially when you consider getting 23% more photons for only 4% the cost of the entire Radion LED light. One thing which is ostensibly missing is a rating for a beam angle which Ecotech Marine omitted from the spec sheet for the Radion TIR Lens.

According to a lead engineer at Ecotech Marine who worked on the Radion TIR Lens project, “the beam angle doesn’t accurately represent the quality of the light uniformity – we worked very hard to collect all the light of the LED into the Total Internal Reflection design to increase performance in light output while preserving the blending of the LED colors”.

This is great news for present and future owners of Radion LED lights who can brighten up their tank and don’t forget that the new Radion TIR Lens cluster includes four more spots for LEDs than there currently exists in the first generation Radion XR30w LED light. The four extra LED seats are an unmistakable sign that the Radion XR30w is going to receive a new LED cluster with more diodes, almost certainly in a few new colors – UV would be an obvious choice, but only time will tell what Ecotech Marine has in store next.

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  • TerenceF

    just curious if anyone knows what the extra two lenses are for…the ones where there used to be screws. Or, am I crazy and just missing something obvious here?

  • http://twitter.com/ReefBreeders Logan Vanghele

    The extras might be for a new radion that could come out, or new boards that can be added. I don’t think the graph is a great representation of the lenses effect, as they will focus the light more, not just increase par. A depth reading on the chart would help a little.

  • David Henley

    if your talking about the silver ones… i think they were just decorative bezels. and they may interfear with the new lenses. but only Ecotech could answer that one.

  • TerenceF

    Ya, there is seems to be two lenses where each of the screws used to be that are no longer used. They do not look like bezels to me. That would mean four extra LED somehow sometime…MACNA surprise?

  • XD_1

    That’s a nice allen wrench.

  • http://ecotechmarine.com/ EcoTech Marine

    The previous reflectors, lens covers and (4) lens cover screws are no longer used after upgrading to the TIR Lens.

  • TerenceF

    The question though is that now there are two NEW lenses on each side (of the new lens plates) where the screws used to be (on the old lens plates). These are lenses that do not match up to any of the LED. Why is this? What is the purpose of these four lenses?

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  • Vitaliy Pysmennyy

    Pity… After creating a light with low PAR- Ecotech suddenly “engineers” the fix-it-all for $30 per fixture – THESE THINGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED WITH ALL UNITS PERIOD.