EVC Bulb Tryout

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[Les]

Well, after some backorder issues with the new EVC 400 MH bulbs, they showed up. My initial impression is they are awsome. I put two of these on the tank and left one Ushio 10k at the one end. There is a very noticable difference between them. The EVC's are more white and seem brighter compared to the Ushio. All these bulbs are fired with M59 magnetic ballast, probe start. I hope that this first day of the burnin is as good as the rest of the life of the bulb.

[Ed]

Cool,    Les, please keep us posted on how they turn out.   I lost one of my XM10K bulbs.   It burnt out prematurely.   I thought it was my ballast at first.   Its definitely the bulb.   Sanjay recommended this bulb.  I will probably buy one of these.  Where did you find them?

[Les]

http://oceanencounter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=OE

[Ed]

Les,
   You are pretty cool, Thanks.  
Nano King
Ed

[The Apprentice]

Good to hear you like the new bulbs Les. I was hoping you could pass on the diffrence of a Magnetic Ballest with the Probe Start , Versus a HQI ballest I am wondering if these would work in a HQI Ballest?

Well, after some backorder issues with the new EVC 400 MH bulbs, they showed up. My initial impression is they are awsome. I put two of these on the tank and left one Ushio 10k at the one end. There is a very noticable difference between them. The EVC's are more white and seem brighter compared to the Ushio. All these bulbs are fired with M59 magnetic ballast, probe start. I hope that this first day of the burnin is as good as the rest of the life of the bulb.

[Les]

These would work very well on the HQI ballast, however, I use 400 watt so buying an HQI for me and my depth of tank would be a waste of money. I am planning on investing in some of the expensive reflectors though.

[Zulreef]

I am confused about the light. I bought 3 new bulb EVC 10K(white), but right and left are yellow light and PFO ballast, middle is white light and M59 magnetic ballast. What happened?

Zul

[Les]

I am also having a problem, the one old ballast I have fires the bulb ok but the color is off some and the light seems to be weak. I plan on changing the ballast out with a new one tomorrow so call me a see how it is working.

[Zulreef]

I am also having a problem, the one old ballast I have fires the bulb ok but the color is off some and the light seems to be weak. I plan on changing the ballast out with a new one tomorrow so call me a see how it is working.

Les,

All three bulbs have now turn yellow.

Zul

[Les]

By yellow, what do you mean? Can you install one of the Ushio 10K on one end and then compare? If the bulbs are still yellow then try to contact the vendor, they should do something for you about that. Keep me posted.

Thanks