Actinic vs. LED

[lanman]

Next newbie question; looking at putting some decent lights on my new 45-gal tank. It's deep.

 

I'm thinking of a sunpod - with two Halide lights, and a bunch of white and blue led's. Do those blue led's supply the same light as an actinic PC bulb?

 

Any other considerations I should be aware of?

 

thanks,

bob

['Ric]

Can you get a copy of a spectral graph? That should show the color ranges and their relative strength. Usually they are a bit jagged with lots of peaks. The broader the better in my book. Avoid one big spike.

[lanman]

Can you get a copy of a spectral graph? That should show the color ranges and their relative strength. Usually they are a bit jagged with lots of peaks. The broader the better in my book. Avoid one big spike.

 

I've looked. That seems to be very hard information to get. You can get it for a particular LED by part number sometimes - but then you'd have to disassemble one of those units and figure out exactly which LED's they are using.

 

bob