We’ve thoroughly enjoyed使用Ai Vegaon our 29 gallon coral aquarium for over a year but with therelease of the Hydra 26，是时候尝试一些新事物了。Having our AI Vega in white be replaced with a nearly identical, white fixture which is smaller but equally bright is quite a surprise, especially when you’ve been looking at the same corals under the same light for so long, but it really only took about ten minutes to adjust.
Vega的LED有20个LED和高达95瓦的功率，而Hydra 26的LED和功率为90瓦。虽然我们从来没有充分发挥Vega，尤其是红色和白色，但其散布的LED确实有助于在每个角落都用光填充大约两英尺的立方体。
从Hydra 26中的光的传播将是我们的主要粘附点，因为它的LED被更集中聚集，但是Aquaillumination在设计光涂和颜色混合方面做得非常出色。由于其所有二极管分为两个紧密的簇，Hydra 26显然比Vega的间隔二极管具有更好的颜色混合。
When the water flow rippled the surface quite strongly, the color spread of the Vega had a noticeable disco-ball effect that wasn’t that distracting, but could be a problem in other tanks with more surface agitation. With the new Hydra 26 on the tank, the tightly grouped LED clusters create almost no disco-ball effect and the lighting is impressively uniform throughout every corner of the tank.
很难比较两个不同的浅色ent LED lights with different LEDs inside of them but with the white, green and red channels reduced to 20% and all other shades of blue and pink cranked up to 100%, the color differences of the two lights becomes noticeable. The AI Vega with its rich blue and no UV appears definitely more cool blue in color. Meanwhile the Hydra 26 with its omission of regular “bright” 460nm blue and use of shorter wavelength UV and Violet LEDs is a pronounced more purple coloration, like an old-school T5 spectrum in many ways.
The quantity and quality of the light is nearly indistinguishable between the Hydra26 and Vega LED lights and AquaIllumination really pushed the limits of how much light can come from such a small package. We might miss the slightly brighter fluorescence of orange and yellow colors that regular blue LEDs offer but this is an acceptable tradeoff to have much more pink, purple and red colors being rendered by the short wavelength diodes.
在AI Vega旁边的Hydra 26评论中的照片做得很好，可以显示两个灯之间的近似色差，但真正的观点是，AI已将功率和功能挤压为400美元的光线以600美元的价格提供。尽管尺寸很小，但如果Hydra 26可以与以前的旗舰AI Vega领导的脚趾脚趾，它表明AI Hydra 26绝对是不是纳米LED灯，即使其外形表明也是如此。
