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Ocean Revive T-247
« on: May 16, 2020, 21:51:00 »
Hi everyone, not sure if this is the correct location for this post?

I recently got Ocean Revive lighting for a coral quarantine/frag tank. I was curious what schedules you run for Ch1 and Ch2 and the intensities. Any help would be great!

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2020, 21:56:27 »
That would depend on what type of corals you are trying to keep?  Tell us about your corals?
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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2020, 22:06:06 »
I have a DT with XR 15s. It’s a mixed reef with LPS, SPS (higher end),Zoas, Shrooms, Nems,.

With that being said the frag tank would be mostly LPS such as Torch, Frog, hammer, Acan, Zoas.

The schedule is what I’m having a hard time with since there’s no ramp up or down and I was seeing online, people are running them for like 12hrs on ch1 and another 6hrs Ch2. 18hrs of light seems crazy, or I’m just not understanding.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2020, 22:08:49 »
I have a DT with XR 15s. It’s a mixed reef with LPS, SPS (higher end),Zoas, Shrooms, Nems,.

With that being said the frag tank would be mostly LPS such as Torch, Frog, hammer, Acan, Zoas.

The schedule is what I’m having a hard time with since there’s no ramp up or down and I was seeing online, people are running them for like 12hrs on ch1 and another 6hrs Ch2. 18hrs of light seems crazy, or I’m just not understanding.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2020, 23:57:21 »
18 hours of light would be crazy. When you set up the timer, what they mean is for example, 10 hours total with channel 1 (blue) noon-10pm and channel 2 (white) can simultaneously kick on 1pm-9pm. The blue only channel enables you an option to ramp/wake up the corals  before the whites turn on. Most people I know crank the blues 50-100% and adjust the white channel to give a pleasant full color spectrum to their liking such as 1-40%. The blue channel is usually the workhorse of these lights.

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2020, 00:09:44 »
Thank you! That makes much more sense then what I was reading!


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2020, 14:38:30 »
I just keep running into problem after problem. These lights are now shocking me anytime my hand is in the water and my arm touches the metal housing. Turn it off no problem, no other charge. If anyone has any electrical experience and has any thoughts it would be much appreciated. I requested a refund already so we will see how that works out. I have a meter to measure voltage,  but it has 30ish different settings to get a correct reading.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2020, 14:39:08 »
And no water has been spilled or dripped on the light unit.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2020, 19:25:59 »
May not be lights. Could be something in your tank like your heater or pump that is leaking voltage. The light is grounding you so you can feel it. May want to use the multimeter to see what is causing the problem. Also sounds like you don’t have a gfci. Definitely want to add that to anything in and around the water

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2020, 19:28:50 »
I had my hand in the water and touched metal objects around the room. I only got shocked when I touched the light. Does that solve anything?Everything else is pretty new in the tank.

And no worries none of the tools I borrowed are going into this tank, those are for my DT.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2020, 19:30:54 »
 Unfortunately that doesn’t tell us anything. Your lights are grounded to the home through the ground wire. Touching a random metal object is not going to ground you like the grounded lights.

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2020, 19:31:23 »
I used a multimeter put the black probe tip in water and the red tip on the light, it jumped to 12v. But again idk If it was on the correct settings.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2020, 19:32:11 »
Damn this electricity ok Ill check everything else.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2020, 19:53:20 »
Appreciate the electrical lesson! It was the power head. Quick secondary question when everything else is unplugged except for the light and i have the multimeter hooked up the tank reads 1.2 on the meter. Is that ok? The power head was at like 101.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2020, 00:58:24 »
Yes it is not unusual to have some. But should not be enough that you can feel it and always use a GFCI Outlet. They run about $15 at Lowe’s or homedepot.

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2020, 01:13:59 »
Will do, I appreciate the help!


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2020, 02:16:34 »
Unplug your heater for a moment and see if you still get shocked and test for voltage.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2020, 09:42:19 »
Yeah I went through everything with a multimeter, turns out it was the powerhead. Everything else was good. Thanks!


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2020, 10:16:42 »
good going on the troubleshooting. scientific method is going to be successful most of the time.

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2020, 11:25:59 »
What? Putting my finger in water and touching metal objects isn’t scientific. Flawed logic lol now I know.


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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2020, 11:57:20 »
I use myself as a current detector all the time. i meant not throwing each expensive piece of equipment away and replacing it one at a time til you get to the cheapest and find out that it was the problem. guilty of that at times too. i still think a little light on a ground line would be a great addition to my tanks so that stray current would light it up. a small dc circuit with a bulb that would glow at very low current and not blow out at higher ones.  USN educational video 'AC The Invisible Shipmate'

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Re: Ocean Revive T-247
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2020, 22:20:33 »
That would be a good indicator.


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