Kessil A500X

[nly04]

Anyone seen this light in person yet?

Kessil A500X LED Spotlight is the First Metal Halide Killer | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

The Kessil A500X is a brand new LED spotlight that packs an astounding amount of power into the company’s trademark Dense Matrix Array LED. This 185 watt aquarium light is a powerhouse of illumination…

reefbuilders.com

 

[NanoCrazed]

That's the laser canon I mentioned at Neptune Aquatics awhile back

Kessil Laser Canons...

Some yet to be released Kessils at Neptune. Look like laser cannons to me...with promise of firing off insane PAR. Great colors in the tank! Check them out if your in there next time. It's in their display room...

bareefers.org

 

[NanoCrazed]

Looks like the glamour shot used in the RB article is also from Neptune.. hah...

 

[nly04]

I just saw Neptune post on FB that they had it in their store, I will check it out.

 

[ashburn2k]

Oh snap... time to upgrade my light again :/


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[sfsuphysics]

$739 though, for a single point of light.

 

[ashburn2k]

Maybe that’s just one light I need [emoji23]


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[ashburn2k]

A500X Controllable LED Aquarium Light - Tuna Blue

The power, coverage, and penetration of metal halide, without the heat or energy consumption. Kessil A500X LED light delivers greater capability than ever before, and can meet the needs of large SPS dominated systems with ease. Thanks to Kessil’s dense matrix LED arrays and specialized optics...

www.bulkreefsupply.com

who ordered one?

 

[Jonathan Chia]

tempted to switch out my ap9x for one of these...For no other reason than because its shiny and new

 

[ashburn2k]

ap9x covers 48" while a500x only covers 36" so there's that. might consider this to replace my orpheks

 

[robert4025]

A500 is for a very very deep tank. If yours is 24” deep or less, I wouldn’t use it. It’s really really powerful and chances are you’ll be running them no more than 50% on regular depth tank.

 

[NanoCrazed]

A500 is for a very very deep tank. If yours is 24” deep or less, I wouldn’t use it. It’s really really powerful and chances are you’ll be running them no more than 50% on regular depth tank.

@robert4025 what kind of bad advice is that??? Of course you wanna run the laser beams at full blast. Bigger is always better!! More power!! So what if you cook your corals... haha

 

[ashburn2k]

A500 is for a very very deep tank. If yours is 24” deep or less, I wouldn’t use it. It’s really really powerful and chances are you’ll be running them no more than 50% on regular depth tank.

My tank is 32” deep

 

[robert4025]

My tank is 32” deep

Piece of cake for the A500. Probably still enough power left to BBQ some corals on the bottom even...lol

 

[robert4025]

@robert4025 what kind of bad advice is that??? Of course you wanna run the laser beams at full blast. Bigger is always better!! More power!! So what if you cook your corals... haha

Let’s try one on your Anemone tank! You get to be the first to say you’ve successfully cooked corals!

 

[Chromis]

Is there an application for this light to be mounted high above the tank too, or is the idea only to use it for deeper tanks?

 

[sfsuphysics]

Is there an application for this light to be mounted high above the tank too, or is the idea only to use it for deeper tanks?

That's what I was thinking. When I ran the 300 gallon lagoon which is almost 6' by 6' in size I easily kept thing alive with 3 Radions, just had them higher and more power.

My only worry is that even with the more narrow beam there could be quite a bit of light spill simply because most tanks aren't symmetrical (i.e. cube or something close) most tend to be skinny rectangles.