Electric Equipment Calculator

Submitted by Magicworldz on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 17:14

To use this tool: Simply fill in your aquarium length, width and height and you should get the following results:

  • Light Requirements: The light power you need for your aquarium. At first you'll get a recommended (see chart bellow) watt-per-liter power, and you can change it if you want (for example if you have a low-tech aquarium with less lighting requirements).
  • Filter: What power you need your filter to have - liters-per-hour.
  • Heater: The power your heater should have - watt.
  • Heater Cable: The length of the heating cable that match your aquarium dimensions.

Recommended Watt-per-Liter

When you fill in your aquarium dimensions, you will get the recommended lighting power, this is based on Takashi Amano's tanks as shown here:

T5 lamps

You should calculate the amount of light in terms of lumens.

When I use T5 it is 30% stronger than T8

We should enter the number of lighbulb, type of lighbulb (T5, T8, HQI), the power.

Light measurement

With the introduction of LED illumination it is surely necessary to express lighting requirements in Lumens and NOT in electricity consumed, since Watts is NOT a unit of light output or intensity.