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…
Modular LED makes it easy to be a DIY demon
Modular LED is taking the pain out of putting together DIY LED aquarium lights. DIY has always been a huge component in the hobby and many people have been doing their own Frankenstein rigs of LED lights. Anyone that’s put…
Cree announces new higher performance Royal Blue LED with the XLamp XTE
The Cree Royal Blue XTE LED is a specially designed diode from Cree which delivers a very strong output of blue light at 445 nm and optimized for use in remote phosphor LED applications. Remote phosphor LEDs are those which…
Cree shatters LED theoretical maximum efficiency of 200 lumens per watt in the lab
Today Cree announced that they have trounced previous luminous efficiency records of Light Emitting Diodes with 231 lumens per watt being produced by a single-die component. The record-setting efficient LED has a color temperature of 4500K, the results were produced…
Sfiligoi Astra update and pictures
We first saw the Sfiligoi Astra LED aquarium light at Interzoo last spring and while poking around we found a few updated images of this small-form, nano LED fixture from Aquatics Elite, the North American distributor of Sfiligoi products. The…
Unique LED Lighting fixtures ship with color controllability
Unique LED Lighting is creating some interesting LED aquarium lights right here in the United States and are including color control technology baked in. The surge of Chinese build LED devices have flooded the market and Unique LED is coming…
Cree introduces XLamp ML-B LED for distributed and visible lighting applications
Cree is at the forefront of pushing the barriers in LED technology and just announced the availability of the Cree XLamp ML-B LED, a new quarter-watt LED best suited for applications where the light is distributed over a wide area…
Pacific Sun now shipping GHL LED module to add controllability to your lamps
Pacific Sun has now started shipping the GHL LEDControl4 module with custom connections to get your Pacific Sun LED fixture a full array of lighting control options. Although GHL recently released the GHL LEDControl4 the Pacific Sun version ships with custom…
