Odyssea HQI Halide Lighting Fixtures

Odyessea's low-profile HQI Metal Halide Aquarium Fixtures pinged on the 3reef Radar recently. HQI halide, PC actinics, LED moonlights and electronic ballasts and only 3" tall.
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They look nice, however they get mixed reviews (at least in UK). :-/

 

i have the 760 watts on my tank and have had them for about 4 months now and have not had 1 plroblem with them great lights for price if you ask me and yes i will buy again for my 125

 

I've had my Odyssea MH/PC system for 1 1/2 years and it's afforded me no problems whatsoever.

 

Are these for real? I thought that I heard mention that odyssea light fixtures caught fire? If these are solid units, why are they so cheap? At that price I would upgrade every tank in my house, sounds to good to be true, IMO.

 

I have the 1072watt fixture my its a great light less than 600 dollars very nice to look at 3-250 MHs 2-96watt acs 2-65watt acs they advertise that there are 8 moonlights but actully there are 2 in every location so 16 are there very cool.
I read alot about the light and had mixed feelings so i decided to try it man im glad i did
but saying that i took extra care installing it i put a fan on the ballest that comes on when the acs come whicth is about 1-hour before the MHS then it goes off after the halides have been off for a while the ballast never even get warm as far as i can tell a very well made peice.

 

Oh i forgot there is a picture of the fixture on my tank on here

 

I also have a Odyssea light fixture and its been running for almost two yrs now and everything is good so far. The only thing that I had to do was to replace one of the cooling fans inside the unit. Since I was there, I replace the other one and added two more. I also have another fan hitting the ballast. I will say that they are not the best qaulity around but for the price, you just cant beat it. If I where to buy a good name brand light with all the bells and whisltes this one has, it would cost AT LEAST $1000.00. Instead I paid only $329.00 with shipping included and "free" bulbs. Like the saying says, "You get what you pay for".

 

I have been looking at this 48 x 760 fixture for some time now looks like the corallife unit, but i am thinking its the Odyssea because of the price difference . The ad does not tell what the hqi bulbs are , 5k 10k 14k 20k ? Luna thats a good price for that fixture . Was that a mail order buy?

 

True but that was a few years ago. They have since gotten their act together & are putting out a 1/2 way decent fixture for the price. Bulbs may not be the best though.