This week Jake Adams does a great interview with Tullio del Aquilla, a real leader in the LED lighting industry. This is a great interview for anyone interested in Lighting technologies and LEDs.

Here is a list of items discussed in this interview

  • Introductions

  • how LEDs got started in the hobby

  • Where LED moonlights came from

  • Hi flux and low flux LED

  • LED environmental requirements

  • Details of LEDs wavelength output

  • LEDs ability to target the wavelengths needed by coral

  • Directivity of LEDs and how that affects there use

  • Luminous Efficiency of LED, and comparison to other lighting types

  • How LEDs work

  • Columniation (Focusing) vs reflected light

  • why aren't LED lights everywhere, what's the hold up

  • LEDs do not emit UV, how will that affect coral

  • Thoughts on Commercial LED fixtures