If anyone is near my neck of the woods, Cleveland Ohio - next friday (2/15) at the Cleveland Zoo is our monthly salt club (C-SEA) meeting and we are having a presentation by Tullio Dell Aquila. This is free to attend. Here is the release:
** Febuary 15th 2008 Meeting - Featuring Tullio Dell Aquila **
During the next meeting coming up in Febuary. We have a guest speaker. Tullio will be coming to our meeting to discuss reef tank lighting. Please tell your friends, family and other club members that are not aware...
Here is a breif run down on Tullio and what he will be covering:
Tullio Dell Aquila is head of new product development and founding
partner of Aquatic Research and Development. Located in Utica, New York,
ARAD is a contract lighting manufacturer and developer specializing in
advanced high power LED lighting systems for aquarium and aquaculture
use. Tullio has spent over a decade focusing on the importance of proper
lighting techniques for aquarium and aquaculture use. His dedication and
continued work with high power full spectrum LED systems has made him a
true pioneer in the aquarium and aquaculture trade.
Tullio has been an avid reef aquarium hobbyist for over fifteen years.
With an extensive technical background, he initially started out
researching, testing, and developing products for various companies in
our industry. During this time he helped design, and develop numerous
aquarium products still available to hobbyist today. Today Tullio spends
most of his time developing and testing new lighting formats for various
industries as well as designing LED, metal halide and fluorescent based
lighting systems for top companies in our hobby.
Abstract: Full spectrum LED systems for aquarium and aquaculture use.
See the future of aquarium lighting. I will be demonstrating some of the
brightest LED packages available today and showing how to design and
build an LED fixture for aquarium use.
The meeting is at 7:30pm and more info can be found at c-sea website or feel free to PM with any questions/comments.
Full Version: LED Presentation By Tullio Dell Aquila 2/15/08
I know Tullio, he really knows his stuff when it comes to leds and he also a good speaker. He really likes to talk that is for sure. I would advise people to check this out. Too bad I am not in the area I would go.
Dave
Dave
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This was such a great presentation. The future of lighting wil be LEDs. Here is a copy of a post I made in the Lighting Forum.
Hans, Tullio gave a great presentation. He even brought in a couple of fixtures. Let me see if I can bring up some of his major points. I'm sorry if this gets a little jumbled.
LED fixtures should come down in cost in the next year or two, but he said give it five years to reach a reasonable level. Tullio said that the computer in the Solaris fixture is the weak link and that the new PFO fixtures and for that matter just about all the new LED fixtures will be without a computer. Tullio said that at this point he wouldn't buy an LED fixture. The LED fixtures will have an overall 19K color temp, they penetrate really deep and depending on the manufacturer can have a life span easily over 50,000 hours and the LEDs can be replaced. No forward heat is given off, just some backward heat.
Tullio is a metal halide fan and believes that they will be around along with LEDs in the future. He said T5s are essentially PCs and doesn't recommend them. He said if you are going to use T5s, use the ice cap individual reflectors and overdriving them is a good idea. He said most T5s are good for lumens around 80, any metal halide will be around 110 (LEDs around 200). He never liked the idea of T5s being brought into the hobby.
Metal halides are most efficient when running hot. He said that folks who put fans on their lights are just lowering their light output. With that in mind, he doubted the efficiency of light fixtures that contain both halides and T5s or compacts because the unit would have to run too cool.
Actinics. Tullio said that with the high end metal halide bulbs in the 12-15K range there is no need to supplement with actinics. He believes that some algae outbreaks are due to actinics. I think Tullio's preferred setup is a single metal halide in a highly reflective pendant. He said that high end magnetic ballasts are a must to get the most out of your halides.
He is currently working with Nanocustoms and brought in a couple of smaller fixtures he's been toying with. One was a small box about 1/2" high and maybe 2"x4" and had a single white bulb, perfect for a refugium. He said that when you will order your LED fixture from Nanocustoms, you will be able to chose from a few different configurations of blue or white LEDs and the number of them. He thought for nano-reefs, LEDs will really be impressive. In fact, he took one of the little fixtures and just using the blue LEDs, shined this little fixture on a red lobo and the thing just glowed - he said imagine this on a nano filled with zoas and mushrooms, it would be pretty impressive.
He said The LED fixtures to look for going on the market are to be made by Omega One, the same folks who make all the fish food.
HTH, I was really impressed with him and the future of LED lighting. I'll probably come back and edit this as I'm writing this on little sleep.
Hans, Tullio gave a great presentation. He even brought in a couple of fixtures. Let me see if I can bring up some of his major points. I'm sorry if this gets a little jumbled.
LED fixtures should come down in cost in the next year or two, but he said give it five years to reach a reasonable level. Tullio said that the computer in the Solaris fixture is the weak link and that the new PFO fixtures and for that matter just about all the new LED fixtures will be without a computer. Tullio said that at this point he wouldn't buy an LED fixture. The LED fixtures will have an overall 19K color temp, they penetrate really deep and depending on the manufacturer can have a life span easily over 50,000 hours and the LEDs can be replaced. No forward heat is given off, just some backward heat.
Tullio is a metal halide fan and believes that they will be around along with LEDs in the future. He said T5s are essentially PCs and doesn't recommend them. He said if you are going to use T5s, use the ice cap individual reflectors and overdriving them is a good idea. He said most T5s are good for lumens around 80, any metal halide will be around 110 (LEDs around 200). He never liked the idea of T5s being brought into the hobby.
Metal halides are most efficient when running hot. He said that folks who put fans on their lights are just lowering their light output. With that in mind, he doubted the efficiency of light fixtures that contain both halides and T5s or compacts because the unit would have to run too cool.
Actinics. Tullio said that with the high end metal halide bulbs in the 12-15K range there is no need to supplement with actinics. He believes that some algae outbreaks are due to actinics. I think Tullio's preferred setup is a single metal halide in a highly reflective pendant. He said that high end magnetic ballasts are a must to get the most out of your halides.
He is currently working with Nanocustoms and brought in a couple of smaller fixtures he's been toying with. One was a small box about 1/2" high and maybe 2"x4" and had a single white bulb, perfect for a refugium. He said that when you will order your LED fixture from Nanocustoms, you will be able to chose from a few different configurations of blue or white LEDs and the number of them. He thought for nano-reefs, LEDs will really be impressive. In fact, he took one of the little fixtures and just using the blue LEDs, shined this little fixture on a red lobo and the thing just glowed - he said imagine this on a nano filled with zoas and mushrooms, it would be pretty impressive.
He said The LED fixtures to look for going on the market are to be made by Omega One, the same folks who make all the fish food.
HTH, I was really impressed with him and the future of LED lighting. I'll probably come back and edit this as I'm writing this on little sleep.
Wow, someone who makes a bot to search for tullio's name and then register and post slanderous information must really be bitter.
He's a busy guy!! Good to know the truth bitter or not
latex gloves and covers over his shoes... sounds like he has done that before...
Well that was interesting.....
yeah, to say the least. LOL.
seems like other local news pages are reporting it too.
seems like other local news pages are reporting it too.
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