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Suggestions for Lunar Mode?


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Hey guys anyone have any suggestions for lunar mode? ( what do i do to get a "moonlight") cycle.? and would it mess up the corals? the blues running at even 1%? lmk guys! would love to be able to simulate the natural mooncycle on this ( using daves Tide/limes )

 

 

settings etc. lmk

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SpencerShepard

All you need to do to set up a moon light cycle is set your night levels(this will be full moon). If you enable Lunar Simulation, the controller will take the moon illumination % from your simulated location, and applies dimming to your night output to reflect that. eg. When your simulated location shows 50% moon illumination, the controller outputs 50% of your night levels.

 

Hopefully someone else can chime in as to what would be appropriate full moon levels for your fixture/tank.

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hmm ok. so if i were to set blues. = 1% would it take it down below one percent? ( is this possible?) and at what level of blues would it be too much for a night light? ( also are fans supposed to be on 24/7 ?) these are daves units.

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hmm ok. so if i were to set blues. = 1% would it take it down below one percent? ( is this possible?) and at what level of blues would it be too much for a night light? ( also are fans supposed to be on 24/7 ?) these are daves units.

Yep. If you set your night level to 1.0%, then lunar simulation will output between 0-1.0% based on the moon phase. The controller has 4096 dimming steps (resolution), so yes, there are about 40 steps of dimming below 1%. Whether or not your drivers will respond to smaller values (ie 0.1%) I'm not sure.

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I'm using my 2 cree blue 3W LED's (700LDD) for my moonlight with a .8 maximum at full moon. They go dark at anything less than a full moon.

 

Im thinking I need to get a lower power LDD driver to allow it to go below .5 and still be visible? Any ideas?

 

BTW. Have an up/down button in addition to the slider! Trying to slide down to .5% is extremely difficult.

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Is there any way to generate a mandatory dark period, say an hour before sunrise and an hour after sunset, before/after the lunar cycle lighting initiates?

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Also I'm running 4 12.5" stunner strips via a PMW module and 3 kessil A360's. I keep the 360's off at night and 2 of the ecoxotic stunner strips, but the other 2 I have for moonlight just stay on. I would like a dark period before and after the moonlight...

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SpencerShepard

There's no option for that in the settings. Someone in another thread suggested putting the light on a timer to be off for your mandatory dark period, which would work fine.

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