Does Anyone Know The K Rating Of

[Aqua Andy]

Hi,

Does anyone know the K rating of an Interpet Triplus fluorescent bulb?

It's not on the packaging and can't find it using web searches.


Andy

 

[BigC]

You might have more luck if you can find the ellusive Interpet website. Does anyone know this main site or the name of the parent company if any.

 

[Aqua Andy]

You might have more luck if you can find the ellusive Interpet website. Does anyone know this main site or the name of the parent company if any.

I found this

gf225's Basic Guide to Lighting

Which I think states it as 8300K?

I also found Interpet's website but it doesn't translate well from Portuguese.

Interpet

I can't believe that they don't have a website in english.


Andy

 

[George Farmer]

8300K is more an "educated guess". I found the 8300K in an American site referring to the older Triton tubes. These are a very similar tube to the newer Triplus in terms of both colour temp. and intensity. I had the two types next to each other and couldn't see any difference, of course that doesn't mean there wasn't any.

Both are decent plant growth tubes IME, although if I had to choose one it would be the Interpet Daylight Plus (6500K).

No idea why there's no site - bad form really.

 

[emo]

I Googled these lamps because I was wondering myself, a few of the shops who have them list the colour temps as 14000K, this is for the PC's though.
http/www.surreypetsupplies.co.uk/acatalo...cent_Lamps.html
http/www.all4pets.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of...cent_Lamps.html

I don't know how respectable these places are and how accurate their information is.

 

[Aqua Andy]

Both are decent plant growth tubes IME, although if I had to choose one it would be the Interpet Daylight Plus (6500K).

Thats good to know.

After buying it I researched lighting and learnt what K is a measurement of.

I previously assumed it was light intensity and was going to buy the highest K value tube I could find!

The only thing that stopped me was that the highest K value tubes were thankfully labeled "Marine".

I'm worried that the Triplus tube has too high a K value and as such to much blue light which promotes algae growth?

The LFS I bought it from didn't have the Interpet Daylight Plus.

What do you think is the best T8 tube for both growing plants and to optimally view fish?

I decided to change the tube for two reasons, to help plant growth and because I didn't like the yellow light produced by a Sun Glo tube that came with my aquarium set up.


Andy

I Googled these lamps because I was wondering myself, a few of the shops who have them list the colour temps as 14000K, this is for the PC's though.
http/www.surreypetsupplies.co.uk/acatalo...cent_Lamps.html
http/www.all4pets.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of...cent_Lamps.html

I don't know how respectable these places are and how accurate their information is.

Mines a standard T8 tube. I hope it's K reading is not as high as that.


Andy

 

[daza]

I once wrote to Interpet asking what the K rating of their Daylight Plus (T5) tubes are. They replied saying that their manufacturers were unable to give them the information! I wondered what they were designed and tested to then!

I bought some anyway. The box does have a spectrum shown on it showing the peak wavelength which can be approximately converted to K using Wein's law.