The SKY is a high powered, modern, sleek, 200w, LED aquarium light designed to grow any and all corals. It is designed with the newest diffuser technology that smoothly blends all of its 104 LEDs to create the most natural looking, disco ball effect free light. There are no more issues with hot spots or need to add on additional diffusers like with other lights. This design also gets rid of the traditional hard shadows we associate with led lights.
Neptune Sky
Standalone product
Many Neptune products require the apex system in order to function. The sky led is stand alone though an no apex is necessary. It can be used completely independently.
Wired or Wireless
Connect the light with aquabus to your apex or wireless to your mobile device.
Easy of Use
One of the easiest led lights to set up on the market today
Coverage
Because of the unique diffuser design easy like can cover an area of 24”x30” and even up to 30”x36” for aquariums without sps / hard corals (light demanding corals)
Power
With 104 LED and 200w off led power, this is one of the strongest led lights on the market today. More than enough to keep, grow and color any coral species
Spectrum
The led light has been designed to provide the perfect spectrum of light to optimize coral color and growth.
UV
The sky light has added UV led to make corals really stand out and mimic the spectrum of the sun.
Shimmer
For those who don’t appreciate the shimmer associated with led lights, neptune offers a special diffuser called the “shimz” to kill some of this shimmer.
Moonlights
The moonlights on the Neptune sky are the first on the market to be offered on 2 different channels so you can independently control both blue and white
Heat Management
The sky light has been specially designed to quickly and efficiently dissipate heat away from the light through specially placed fans. It also has built in safeties that will dim or even turn off the light in the case of overheating.
Sound
The sky lights usually high grade fans and a super large heat sink in order to ensure quiet operation.
Design
This sky light measure only 1.75” tall and 4lbs thanks to its modern ,sleek elegance design.
Mounting Options
The sky light uses a universal mounting system that work with ecotech light systems. You can use the ecotech hanging kit, rails and even the rms arms to safely and securely mount the led light over or on your aquarium.
SPREAD
DIFFUSED, SOFT LIGHT, EVERYWHERE
In nature corals are minimally shadowed because they get softened light from horizon to horizon due to the diffusion aspect of the atmosphere. For proper coral growth and health, this is something we attempt to accomplish in our reef aquariums.
Unfortunately most LED reef lights have a small surface area of light origination that creates dark areas and harsh shadows – sometimes with an altered spectrum. As a reef aquarium matures, this is the main limiting factor for coral growth and health. Many attempt to correct this deficiency by adding additional fixtures, light-limiting diffusers, additional fixtures or hodge-podge together a hybrid solution with supplemental lighting strips.
The SKY has a large surface area of diffused light at the origin which emulates the horizon to horizon effect of the atmosphere and minimizes shadowing. The SKY alone is all you need to properly light your reef aquarium and provide for the health, growth, and color needs of even the most demanding corals.
SPECTRUM
BLENDED AND UNIFORMLY DELIVERED
Do LED lights grow healthy, colorful corals? Of course. But to be optimal, they must have the right spectral balance of colors, sometimes referred to as “full-spectrum”. Also, and more importantly, that light must be blended and spread uniformly over the entire aquarium.
All full-spectrum, LED reef aquarium lights mix various discrete LED colors, each one with its own segment of the spectrum, along with whites. Blending all these LED together into homogenous light is where things get tricky. Some light designs bring all the LED very close together so that they blend at the source. The downside here is this very small area of light origination creates the harshest of shadows. Others spread out LED, hoping to mix the various spectrums of the discrete LED on their way to the aquarium – but this leads to the “disco-ball ” or “static” effect we often see in the shadows or on the sand in the aquariums.
The SKY has 104 carefully curated LED, split into four controllable channels, spread across a large surface to maximize the area of light origination and minimize shadowing. Then the SKY uses patented light engine technology that mixes some of the light from all the LED right inside the light panel. Then that light, along with some of the direct light from the LED, all pass through a carefully selected diffuser panel that evens out all the light while minimally reducing the light output. The result is a well-blended light output, that has the same spectrum, nearly everywhere in the aquarium, with minimal shadowing and no disco-ball-effect.
SIMPLE
SUCCESS, WITHOUT THE HASSLE
Up until now setting up an LED reef light for success usually meant trial and error moving color sliders around, asking friends, reading forum posts, and in the end you were basically on your own.
Start out simple…
With the SKY, we have simplified the entire process from connection, to initial configuration, to ongoing operation. Simply connect the SKY to your Apex, or run it wirelessly connected to your mobile device – no Apex necessary.
Then, configure the SKY. Apex Fusion will ask you a series of questions and show you different “looks” for you to choose from – each one curated to provide light spectrum for the growth and health of your corals. From there, simply choose when you want the lights to come on, go off, and that’s it!
…Graduate to Pro!
Don’t think the SKY is just for noobs. There is also access to advanced scheduling features, LED intensity sliders, and an infinite amount of ways to integrate the operation of your SKY with other Apex functions. #ControlFreaks rejoice!
“No-one would believe I’d ever give up my metal halides, but it’s true, I’ve made the leap and am happy to report the future is looking brighter.”
MORE DETAILS
APEX-CONNECTED, OF COURSE – BUT NOT REQUIRED!
The SKY easily joins your Apex ecosystem simply by connecting its integrated AquaBus cable to an available port on one of your modules or the base unit. This makes set up fast and easy. If you have more than one SKY, the included Y-cable can be used to chain them together and still only need one AquaBus connection on your Apex.
Alternatively, those without an Apex can wirelessly connect to the SKY and operate it wirelessly over BT on their mobile devices.
ADVANCED THERMAL MANAGEMENT – QUIET AND EFFECTIVE
The SKY has an advanced approach to thermal management that is more than just the two fans you see.
So, why two fans? With two fans the SKY can operate them at much lower RPM while keeping the LED cooler. Cooler LEDs mean a longer lifespan for your light. Also, running the fans slower means that the SKY is quieter, in fact, its the quietest actively-cooled LED in its power-class. The SKY puts out just 33dB at one meter and set to 100%. The leading competitor clocks in at >40dB at 100% power.
Along with these fans a temperature and power monitoring algorithm manages their speed. If one fan were to fail, the other will pick up the slack and still keep the SKY running and safely cooled until a replacement is obtained. Also, if for some other reason the SKY cannot adequately cool itself, such as excessively high ambient air temperature, it will throttle the power to the LED to keep them safely cool.
MORE MOUNTING OPTIONS
Many lights on the market force you into purchasing their mounting solution. We decided to broaden your options by adopting a standard already widely used by one of the most popular brands on the market. So, in addition to our optional, sleek black cable hanging kit, you now have many other ways to mount your SKY over your aquarium. This also makes the SKY an even more cost effective option when considering a lighting upgrade. On top of this, we are working closely with 3rd parties to build even more mounting options for our SKY customers.
SHIMMER IS A PERSONAL CHOICE
As equipped, and with surface water agitation, the SKY provides a gentle shimmer that suits the tastes of most aquarists. We realized early in the SKY development that when you put a diffuser in front of LED, as many lights do, it tends to kill off nearly ALL shimmer. And that’s not good. So we designed a hybrid diffuser that has clear covers, called Shimz, over four openings in the diffuser where the white LED can shine through with no diffusion. These white LED then bring back the shimmer lost by the diffuser – but in just the right amount. But because not everyone has the same taste, we created an option. If you wish to have even less shimmer, diffused Shimz can be swapped in – available as an optional purchase.
TWO DEDICATED MOONLIGHTS
We call it the SKY for one more reason. The moonlit sky is very important to coral reef health and its natural processes. For aquarists, moonlight simulation can play an important role for the animals, and it provides visual interest in the aquarium as well.
The SKY provides moonlight via four dedicated moonlight LED in two colors. These LED will change intensity following the earth’s current moon cycle. Alternatively, you can set them to night-light mode and they will simply come on opposite your daylight settings.
Dedicated LED are used since dimming the main LED is still just too bright to be an effective moon simulation. Doing it this way allows for a proper range of up and down intensity for emulating the brightness of the varying phases of the moon. The two colors on each moonlight give you some options for how you want the moon to shine. Each pair of LED has its own Shimz fitted in front of it so you get that beautiful night time moon-shimmer all across your reef.
POWER SUPPLIES MATTER
We spared no expense when it comes to the power supply included with the SKY. This industry-trusted, 219W Meanwell power supply is UL rated and has a locking connector for a secure interface to your SKY.
THE ONLY LIGHT YOU NEED TO BUY FOR YOUR REEF!
The SKY is not inexpensive. For sure. But please take a moment to hear us out on this one.
As reefers ourselves, we have for nearly a decade been bothered seeing revision after revision of lights, year after year, as companies effectively use their customers as test subjects to evolve their reef lighting designs. Even after all this evolution, they still underperform so much that customers are forced to buy more lights than they should, or they Frankenstein together hybrid solutions to make up for the inability of these lights to adequately cover a reef aquarium.
It is for this reason we have spent a number of years and a great deal of development perfecting the SKY – a lighting solution that we believe will be the only one you will need over your tank, with fewer fixtures, and no supplementation whatsoever. When you purchase the SKY as your reef aquarium lights, that’s it, nothing else to buy, no upgrades necessary in two years, no other stuff to hang over your tank. Period.
So we hope that you factor all of this into your judgement of cost and come to the conclusion that the SKY is an excellent value comparatively.
