Marsaqua or sunspect 165w led

[geversole]

I am looking at these 2 lights on ebay. Ive read  both are good lights. Anyone on here have either of these lights?  What corals do you have under them? Thanks for your help

[Humphrey]

I have 7 of the suspect. 2 on a 90, 3 on a 180, and 2 I'm installing on another 90. I like them for the 18" tanks front to back. They have 90 degree lenses. I get 90 par around the perimeter of the tank, 150-200 center bottom and 350 about 2/3 of the way up @ 50% only 4" off the water.

I get the same on the 180 24" tank by taking off the 90 degree lenses and turning to 75% approximating 120 degree lenses. More like 450 6" from the surface.

These can support and grow anything, but they aren't as controllable as the more expensive stuff. I thin good value. Had the first 3 for a couple of years with no problems. 

[geversole]

Thanks for the info. Do you have the programmable or non programmable? Are you growing sps with them?

[Humphrey]

Non programmable. Yes SPS is growing. All I have is the blue and white/full spectrum channels. I'd say par is par, light is light but some may disagree.  I use timers to turn on blue then white an hour later for 9 hours then blue only for an hour.

Have some birds nest, monti, acro, red planet, encrusting monti, etc. seems to do fine.

[MacroGuy]

How loud are these?

[Humphrey]

Couple fans...  Seem quiet but they're in my canopy so I probably wouldn't notice if they wer t.