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farmhand
06-29-2009, 04:16 PM
Just bought some lights for a new scrubber at Home Depot. 23 Watt, 2700k, CFL floodlights. However it says they are 90 Watt equivalent. Would you count them as 23 watt or 90 watt?

kcress
06-29-2009, 11:40 PM
Either... But you have to say. As you have!
We generally talk CFL watts.

worley
06-30-2009, 06:27 AM
Yup, consider anyone here talking about Watts of light as compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL)

This is also the real power that the bulb uses rather than what an incandescent bulb would use to get the equivalent amount of light (which is a fairly useless number these days unless you're not used to energy saving bulbs - I generally think like this: 11w is for a pretty small room, 22w for a medium room and 2x22w or more for a large room, but ignore my mumbling, this has nothing to do with algae scrubbers :) ).

farmhand
06-30-2009, 07:31 AM
23 Watt, 2700k, CFL floodlights. However it says they are 90 Watt equivalent. Would you count them as 23 watt or 90 watt?

I am still confused??? I am setting up a 30 gallon and do not want to overkill the scrubber (or under do) light. How could it be either?

SantaMonica
06-30-2009, 08:47 AM
A small 60 square inch (3 X 20 trough) one-sided screen should be fine, with a since 23W cfl on it.

farmhand
07-01-2009, 04:27 PM
Still confused??? When the bulb is a 23 watt but says it is a 90 watt equivalent. For growing algae, is it considered a 23 watt or a 90 watt?

worley
07-01-2009, 06:02 PM
I'll say again...

Yup, consider anyone here talking about Watts of light as compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL)
ignore the equivalent watts, they have nothing to do with what we're talking about.
A 23W compact fluorescent bulb is a 23W bulb, that's all there is to it.

farmhand
07-03-2009, 02:00 PM
Thank you. I understand now.