The Aqua Illumination LED Module was a seminal moment in reefkeeping LED lighting history, being the first to introduce a modular approach to LED fixtures. The Aqua Illumination LED was quite literally the second such controllable LED aquarium light offered to the hobby, and it was brighter, thinner, and much more affordable than the PFO Solaris that has since faded away into history. With only a single model of LED light available, it was not necessary to come up with a different product name to differentiate it, and the ‘AI’ acronym for the company name hadn’t yet come into common usage. Our first face to face encounter with Aqua Illumination occurred at Reefapalooza 2007, where the fledgling AI was demonstrating their “Aqua Illumination LED”. But if we take a long view at what the aquarium hobby started with, it’s easy to see how aggressively AI has led the charge to make LED lights that are veritably, space-age.Īqua Illumination started making LED lights like so many other companies, as a start up, working out of basement, and hand assembling nearly all of their light’s components. Nowadays it’s easy to take for granted how feature rich and high performance the current generation of AI Hydra 26 & 52 HD LEDs have become. Naturally, to understand where AI is going, we wanted to be reminded of where they’ve been, and so we rummaged the AI factory offices to round up one example of every LED fixture that Aqua Illumination has ever made and brought to market (not including the Flare LED). ![]() This week we travelled to Aqua Illumination headquarters to spend some time with the crew, wrap our head around the new AIFI, myAI and HyperDrive features of the new Hydra 26 HD and Hydra 52 HD LEDs. Aqua Illumination is the oldest aquarium company around today that has always been specifically dedicated to designing and building LED reef aquarium lights.
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