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02/24/2014, 12:42 PM | #1 |
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Intensity vs. brightness
Why is there a slider listed as "brightness" on the daily schedule page, but in the templet section a slider listed as "intensity"?
Aren't these the same function or are they different?
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Martin,
They operate exactly the same, the terms "Intensity" and "brightness" are interchangeable regarding EcoSmart Live.
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I thought so. The question was asked by someone on another forum and while I thought they were the same I had to ask to make sure. Thanks
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On the daily schedule page where is says brightness.....60% means that is your highest intensity, even with a bell curve graph?
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Bump. I'm interested to know as well
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So right now im using the color program on ecosmart live. I had 2 hydras and switched to 1 g3 pro on my 65gal tank. Lights are at 10". I have overall brightness at 50%. Sps are fine, some lost a tad of color, chalices on bottom of tank bleached, but zoanthids towards top and middle are stretching
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Makes perfect sense to me. But just to add to the confusion. Could it mean the opposite. That it's 75% of 55% ? Lol
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Must have stumped them !
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With the settings at 75% and the overall at 55%. Your peak will be 75% of 55%. If you turn all channels to 100% and had an overall of 55% then you would get the actual 55%. |
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So if I have my blues, and uv at 100% at 3pm
Reds greens and whites at 30% Overall brightness at 50% Then my blues and uv are really running at 50% and my red white and green at 15%? |
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I'm not sure it's that simple. It's probably more of an average of all the channels. Here is an example.
At this point with these percentages gives me an overall of 34% |
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Clear as mud. Lol.
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Lol. Math is not always fun !
Five channels, so each one will contribute 20 percent to the overall . I'm vodka dosing so I can't really do the math, but hopefully that helped a bit |
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So when the weather shows 35% is that the total intensity of the light? I also have mines et like yours at 50% brightness! and again it only shows like 35% under the sun icon at peak time...
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No problem. Yes that's correct. Total output is only 35%. You can play around with it to see. If you crank up all the channels you'll be at 50% for that point
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Intensity vs. brightness
Hmm. Just noticed the phone app doesn't include the violet and uv channel. I wonder if it's incorporated into the royal blue ??
But yeah so six channels would be like 16.666% per channel so the math gets a bit harder |
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My phone app has a UV slider. But no yellow slider for G3Pro.
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Now that's a interesting thought. However, I think it's the brightness of the light. See attached
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