What is a Retro-fit LED tube?
Retro Fit lamps are an excellent product designed for replacing outdated lighting systems based on fluorescent tubes. The use of LED lamps with Power-LED diodes far surpasses the ordinary fluorescent tube, providing significantly more light, energy savings, longevity, and a much faster and more lush growth of plants.
Are fluorescent tubes or LEDs better?
Diodes offer energy savings of up to 75% compared to fluorescent tubes, and most importantly, they generate much more light directed downwards, rather than around like a fluorescent tube.
Using Hsbao Retro-fit lamps significantly reduces power consumption, which is quickly felt by the user.
An additional excellent advantage of Retro Fit lamps is their longevity. The lighting effectively lasts up to 12 years without changing its parameters. Comparing this advantage to traditional T8 fluorescent tubes, which need to be replaced every 6 to 9 months, it's easy to see that using LED lighting is entirely economical and satisfying.
It is also worth mentioning that LED lighting does not generate heat, which is significant during the warm season.
What makes Retro-fit Hsbao better compared to other LEDs of this type?
Retro-fit Hsbao clearly stands out from the competition. First of all, Hsbao, as one of the few companies, provides a full spectrum of visible light colors. The white color is achieved by mixing light in different colors. This greatly improves plant growth and highlights all the natural colors of the aquarium.
The second important and attractive advantage is the ability to have full control over the light, its power, and color, using a remote control.
Additionally, the LED lamp is placed inside a glass tube made of the highest waterproof and transparency standards. This solution does not block the flow of light and, moreover, does not become cloudy over time like the plastic tubes of competing Retro Fits.
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What light does it offer?
Hsbao Retro-fit in freshwater aquarium:
- the lamp offers as many as 6 color mixes supporting photosynthesis:
Light mixes of shades of yellow, red, and white are available in different types. To create the color mixes, the lamp uses light with color temperatures of 3000K, 4200K, 5500K, 6500K, 7500K, and 8500K. It is the mixture between the individual colors (e.g., 3000K + 6500K + 8500K) that creates the light emitted by the lamp.
- the lamp can enhance the coloration of plants and fish with 5 additional colors:
The lamp will emit shades of bright blue, adding reflections of light to fish such as Neon Tetras. Green colors can also be used to add freshness and colors to plants or dead nature (roots, stones, etc.), giving them stronger hues.
- the lamp also offers night light in four colors:
The shades of blue will imitate moonlight in its various phases. The ability to brighten and dim the light allows for adjusting the night glow according to the user's needs and the aquarium.
Hsbao Retro-fit in Malawi-type aquarium:
Shades of blue and white with blue add reflections of light, highlighting white or light sand and "enhancing" the colorfulness of the fish. Thanks to the large number of colors in each hue, the user can emphasize certain ones in the aquarium.
Hsbao Retro-fit in marine aquarium:
- application in the main tank:
The main light can be chosen between typical actinic and marine light. Available shades of blue (Actinic Blue), pink (pink INT), or light blue with white (Shallow Water) allow for complementing colors in the marine aquarium. Additionally, the multicolored light promotes the coloration of corals. With a large number of colors, one can choose, for example, the selected one to "boost" the colors of a chosen group of corals.
- application in refugium:
Strong shades of red, pink, and other derivatives allow for adapting the lamp to the refugium, where it can become the main lighting, perfectly promoting the growth of algae.
- the lamp also offers night light in four colors:
The shades of blue will imitate moonlight in its various phases. The ability to brighten and dim the light allows for adjusting the night glow according to the user's needs and the aquarium.
What functions are available with the remote control?
In addition to the ON/OFF function, we gain access to several colors of the lamp light, allowing the user to "boost" selected hues of plants or fish in the aquarium. The remote also has a dimming and brightening function. This feature allows for adjusting the power and amount of light to the specific needs of the tank, additionally enabling the use of Retro'fit Hsbao as daytime and nighttime lighting.
What LEDs does the Hsbao lamp have?
The diodes are based on Power-Led technology. The lamp has light sources in various colors. The individual colors of light are the result of mixing light colors from different diodes. This solution provides the aquarium with all the necessary colors of light, significantly affecting the coloration of fish and plants, and additionally supports photosynthesis and plant growth.
How to install the LED fluorescent lamp?
Retro-fit Hsbao has the thickness of a traditional T8 fluorescent lamp. It can successfully be mounted in the holders of the old fluorescent lamp. The product has its own power supply system with an additional switch and controller. The lamp will not use the old system that powered the fluorescent lamp.
Technical data:
- power: 16W
- color scale: 400 - 700nm
- light output: 710LM
- lamp length: 69cm
- cable length: 1.5m
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