Many of you are familiar with the name Bridgelux for a variety of reasons, including their awesome multi-chip arrays, as well as the use of their chips in many Asian LEDs. Well, you may become more familiar with that name…
MaxSpect Razor LED details of specs and components revealed
The newly announced Maxspect Razor is a hot and sexy little number that is getting a lot of attention from our tech rabid readers. Therefore we have gathered all the technical and LED details about the fixture to spill to…
Cree XT-E Royal Blue Gets a spec bump, now up to 5 watts each
Rejoice DIY LED builders! Cree, in their mighty engineering prowess has seen fit to give their popular XT-E royal blue LED a spec bump recetly, letting you squeeze even more from an already powerful LED. This update puts the XT-E…
Luxeon M from Philips Lumileds is gunning for Cree XM-L
Looks like Cree’s pint sized powerhouse XM-L LED is getting some competition this month in the form of the new Luxeon M from Philips Lumileds. Cree and Philips have historically played the one-upmanship game for as long as we can…
New ‘Naked’ series of glass tanks from PicO Aquariums
Some of you may be familiar with PicO Aquariums product lineup already, but there is a new addition to this grassroots manufacturer’s lineup. While they have had great success with their rimless all-in-one aquariums over the last few years, many…
More details on the forthcoming Maxspect Mazarra X
With the new Maxspect Mazarra X being snuck into Reefstock recently, and Mr. Saltwater Tank doing a brief video clip on it, we assume there are many of you who are really itching to find out more information about this…
Cree XT-E Royal Blue Has a New Buddy
Cree has just announced what we have been anticipating for a while now; the XT-E white. While it’s not besting the XP-G in terms of overall output (it’s close) and efficiency, The XT-E white will bring some of the same…
New Cree XB-D LED Set to Lower Product Costs
The Cree XB-D LED just announced today is being released into the wild to start bringing high quality and high output LED fixtures down to a price range that will start to compete with the many budget fixtures that are…
The Cree XT-E Royal Blue LED Explained
You may have begun to notice Cree XT-E blue LEDs being included on some newer aquariums lights and unlike previous advancements, this generation of LEDs is designed for more than simple brightness and efficiency gains. The Cree XT-E royal blue…
New Flower Protoboard for the DIY Electronics Reefer
A company by the name of ElecFreaks has come up with a great variation on the tried and trued protoboard that many of us work with for DIY and prototype electronics (LED drivers, Arduino based controllers, etc…), but tries to…