The Lani LED panel light is back for the third time since 2012, this time with more diodes and with Wi-Fi functionality. But is it enough to compete in the 2020s? And at what cost to the consumer?
很好…
Few LED lights had such a prestigious debut as Lani. These machined aluminum panel lights first found fame in 2012 as the sole light source on Triton founder Eshan Dashti’s史诗般的展示箱at Triton headquarters in Germany.
Single-handedly those early LEDs lit and grew Acropora and even a giant clam as a key part of the holistic Triton Method, and in a then LED skeptic Germany that was still very much in the multiple, linear T5 camp.
Lani has since parted ways with Triton, but then as now, it is a slick-looking, passively cooled panel light offering a wide, even light spread. It has changedform slightly since Gen 1, growing rows of fins on its back to further aid cooling.
模型选择
Three Lani models are available, all made up from one or multiples of the same roughly 8” square, 45 watt PCB. Nano is the smallest at 8×8”, then Half at 16×8”, then Square at 16×16”. All units are just 1.5” thick.
然后，这些模型进一步细分为三个二极管配置LANI调用版本 - 正常，三通道白色，蓝色和UV那让人想起第一个lani。然后是一个六通道单元，包括白色，蓝色，紫外线，宝蓝色，青色，以及他们称为“混合”。然后，淡水社区也享受了阳光，包括明亮的阳光，蓝色，紫外线，红色，发光和明亮的绿色LED。
Lani didn’t want to tell us whose LEDs their circuit boards are populated with, or their spectra, apart from revealing that one blue diode emits 405nm with the ultraviolet emitting 365nm.
Depending on edition, Nano is populated with up to 43 diodes for a maximum draw of 45 watts, Half has up to 86 diodes for up to 90 watts and Square has up to 173 diodes, drawing a maximum of 180 watts. They are powered by a Mean Well HLG-240H 24-A driver and offer an up to 10 warranty on the light unit, and a two year on the driver.
Lani告诉我们这些单元的运行量为1瓦，最大负载的30％，使其成为3瓦LED。除了在紫外线LED上的石英盖和单元底面的透明丙烯酸盖外，没有其他透镜，反射镜或扩散器可使用。发射的光束宽度为120度，该设备具有防尘性IP50额定值。
控制
控制now comes by way of a controller with a digital display and via a Wi-Fi link to a web browser on a PC. Hook up the controller and a preset program is preloaded along with intensity control, sunrise, sunset, and 0-100% analog dimming which Lani says prevents flicker. The (essential,) controller isn’t included when you buy the light, but you do only need to buy one controller regardless of the number of light units you subsequently run.
Run more than two units though and there’s another extra you’ll need called the switch, (for daisy-chaining?) but also not included. There is no app control available for mobile or tablets, although control via an Apex and other third-party controllers is in preparation.
传播和定制
提供三种不同的面板尺寸应意味着对许多油箱尺寸的量身定制，而有预算的人确实可以将它们塞在水箱上方，面板上的面板上，边缘到边缘。播放带有三个面板尺寸的俄罗斯方块，您最终可能会得到像坦克足迹一样多的平方英尺照明。虽然只选择一个16英寸的正方形，而Lani说它足以点燃24x24x24英寸的体积，该体积散布着轻便的SPS珊瑚。
这些单元有黑色，白色或银色的单元，或者几乎所有您想要的其他身体颜色，黑色和铜色的单元插图以匹配同样高端且高价的Abyzz Abryzz Pumps。
如果你或你的客户需求reef lighting with the broadest canopy of LED light, have an endless budget, or want to be seen to break away from the existing pack, Lani’s exclusive aquarium lighting line is definitely worth investigating.
But…
The controller isn’t included with the unit and the Wi-Fi control is via browser on desktop or laptop computer, not an app on your mobile or tablet. Granted the controller can control several units but if you have three or more panels you need their “switch” too. Building a Maybach is one thing but charging extra for the keys just to run the thing is quite another.
到目前为止，Lani仅通过电线悬挂，并且没有任何类型的坦克安装座，这阻止了如今最受欢迎的装饰方式。尽管它被动冷却，但尚未将IP额定在水中，而只是除尘。Lani告诉Reefbuilders他们正在使用安装解决方案和IP65额定设备。
Unfortunately, we’re not convinced that in mid-2021 its upgrades are enough versus the competition, and worse still for Lani, it’s now not the only European-made panel light. Philips Coral Care Gen 2 and the ATI Straton are both already available in the marketplace and checking the boxes for reefers who crave end-to-end wide, even illumination, and silent, fanless operation.
Straton has a similarly large panel, more power, and an extra (seventh,) color control channel versus Lani’s Square Pro, albeit for slightly fewer LEDs at 153 vs 173 respectively.
Lani的新英国分销商Aquaration Aquination现在向我们提供了建议的零售价，但自那以后不可避免地会陷入困境。
价格起价为999.99英镑（1418.99美元），一半的价格为1499.99英镑（2128.49美元），广场的价格为1999.99英镑（2837.99美元！！！），不包括控制器。英国脱欧在英国使欧洲商品昂贵。我们猜测这些是针对六频道专业版和太阳版本的，全球定价可能会有所不同。但是我们只能说是OMG…
Verdict
如果我们陷入2012年，钱不是对象，也没有其他选择，我们现在会对Lani狂欢，但是10年在礁石水族馆技术中很长一段时间，回到2012年，Radion Gen 1已经在Tir进行了升级。镜片。现在是第5代…
The Lani website quotes: “使用LANI，第一次有可能以最高水平的硬珊瑚储罐，专门用LED照亮。” We hope that statement is a legacy from the 2012 launch, as the rest of the world has been lighting and growing hard corals with LED for over a decade.
And despite a “six-year development phase and two-year test phase,” by Lani we do wonder if they should have spent a little more time researching the current LED lighting market, its proven coral growing capabilities, but most of all what price other top-end LED lights are actually selling for. They’re not entertaining publishing any PAR readings either, due to “high differences in measurement devices on the market.”
We know from our own industry experience that as price goes up, (especially to +$1000 a unit,) the number of units actually sold drops significantly. So we predict a very slow take-up for the 16”, $2800 Square (outside Germany at least,) both by the aquatic trade and reefing community, despite many of us dreaming of owning and running them.
Lani在纸上看起来像是精确制造的高端德国工程设计，但其价格超过的价格标签使其成为一个利基市场的利基市场，而可悲的是，这并不是我们的利基市场。
