[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aK7EhPtoo[/youtube] If you’re a fan of the show ‘How It’s Made’ and you like the solid machined construction of the JBJ Unibody LED then you are going to love this short clip showing how the Unibody LED is made. Starting with a…
Creative use of EcoRay LED illustrates the limitation of using narrow angle lenses
The EcoRay LED light fixture from Underwater World is a light which is outfitted with very narrow angle LED lenses. Unless you’re trying to blanket your aquarium with LED fixtures the EcoRay LED is a tough light to implement in…
More specs and images of Arcadia Eco-Aqua 30W spotlight
Thanks to our great friends in Spain at Acuaristica we have received some more information and hands-on images of the new Arcadia Eco-Aqua 30W spotlight they were willing to share with us. They were able to get their hands on…
BridgeLux teams up with Molex to bring snap-in LED lights closer to reality
A little over a year ago we wrote about the BridgeLux Helieon fixture offering a snap-in, interchangeable LED light fixture and today we’ve gotten news that BridgeLux has teamed up with Molex to bring this interchangeable LED closer to market. Right…
CoraLed brings LED lights from across the pond
CoraLed is a relatively new company building LED aquarium light fixture in the UK that will build your lights to order in lengths up to 10 ft. Granted, most hobbyists won’t need that much span but its good to know…
A peak inside the De Jong Marinelife holding facility
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VfT9Uc2MI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] De Jong Marinelife is one of the largest marine livestock wholesalers in Europe supplying anything from sharks to public aquaria to frags to Local Fish stores and they recently posted the video tour above of their holding facility. Although…
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…
AI Nano LED review: good things can exist in small packages
I recently updated the lighting on my low tech reef tank with an AI Nano LED which is a world apart from the conventional lighting I had been using. I had some disdain for the included 150-watt “disco-ball” metal halide…
Champion Lighting enters solid state lighting with Blueline VHO LED striplights
Once a purveyor of affordable electronic metal halide ballasts, Champion Lighting’s Blueline brand has finally been harnessed to market some simple LED striplights. The Blueline VHO LEDs are made up of strips of high output one-watt LEDs either in all…
Hands on and teardown of the Ecotech Marine Radion LED programmable and wireless reef light
Ecotech Marine’s Radion XR30w LED light is an aquarium fixture with a very unique design and feature set so naturally, we tore it apart to see what makes it work. The only predictable component inside the Radion XR30w is the…
