More Color, More Spread, More Power, and More Refined
A new generation of Aqua Illumination Hydra lighting is here! The Hydra 64 HD has been redesigned making the reef lights more efficient with better aesthetics. The Hydra Lights have been a staple in the reefing community for years and the new Hydra 64 HD Lights take the same great features and benefits while using more efficient hardware that ultimately gives better light and spread throughout your aquarium.
- Easy Control with the MyAI App
- More LEDs
- More PAR
- More Spread
- Improved Optic Design
- Improved Water Resistance
- Thinner Form Factor
- Multiple Mounting Options
- Dedicated Moonlight Channel
- Wider Spectrum (more channels)
Design
Redesigning the plastics in the Prime and Hydra lineup has resulted in two major benefits: better efficiency and better aesthetics. Efficiency improvements reduce the demands on active cooling for longer component life. Improvements to design thin the fixtures and reduce their profile and presence over your aquarium.
Resilient
Water-resistance is a major benefit in aquarium lighting - and while the new Prime and Hydras are not waterproof, design improvements make them more capable of facing the moisture-rich adventures of reef keeping.
Moonlight
A dedicated moonlight LED and channel has been added in the new Prime HD, Prime FW, Hydra 32HD and Hydra 64HD modules. This allows for independent moonlighting designed to simulate the natural lunar color and intensity.
Control
Control on the lights will use the existing myAI® app which is free, simple and very quick to a program offering onsite direct BLE connection through your smart device. Additional control options may become available for the new generation Prime and Hydras over time.
Download the MyAI App:
Optics and Output
Output in terms of PAR, color mixing and spread are all improved with the new fixtures. The incorporation of more LEDs results in a more targeted full-spectrum, TIR lenses shape the light’s output and improve its efficiency. The result is more color POP as well as a slightly wider output area and higher average PAR. A combination LED placement and lens geometry blend the light from the clusters so that color separation is further reduced.
The Hydra® 64HD delivers more output with a higher average PAR than any other AI Module.
HD AI’s popular HD functionality, through which a user can route power not in use by one color channel into another color channel is a much-loved feature on the previous generation HD fixtures. As the new product names imply (Prime 16HD, Hydra 32HD, and 64HD) all the new HD lights retain this exciting feature.
Mounting
Mounting hardware as previously available for Hydra and Prime fixtures will work with
the new version lights. The exception is the Hydra-Flex arm which will require a different light bracket due to the size difference in the new fixtures. The Flex arm bracket will change with the new fixtures. Older flex arms being used to mount the new lights will need a new light bracket.
Specifications:
Dimensions - 11.875" L x 5.375" W x 1.42" H
LED Channels - 7(+1)
Number of LEDs - 64(+4)
Power Consumption - 135 watts
Optical Reflectors - TIR (total internal reflectors)
What's Included?
1x Black Aqua Illumination Hydra HD 64 Light Fixture
1x Aqua Illumination Hydra HD 64 Power Supply
Tuning Your New LED Light
Most LED lights will actually put out more light than your corals will actually need and without a PAR Meter to test the overall output, it is really hard to guess if the light is too dim or intense. We highly suggest using a PAR Meter to test the output of your lights at different points throughout your tank that you can use to tune the lights output or know where to put specific corals.
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Light randomly freezes and no longer responds to App. By IA on 5/11/2020
IA wouldn't recommend this product to a friendI purchased two of these lights on 1/23 and they have never worked right. After months of back and forth with AI tech support and replacing them 2x they will still randomly freeze and not respond to the app. Only cycling the power will temporarily fix the issue until the next time it will freeze. They even had me try the new Mobius app which did not solve the issue. The final response from technical support was to just keep an eye out and maybe an app update might fix it in the future.
Will one Hydra 64 be sufficient to cover a 36" peninsula(40 breeder) SPS dominant tank?
Unfortunately that light has a spread of 32" only. I would recommend two smaller lights like the Hydra 32.
Take care
Hi can you send me the links for the flex arm and new light bracket for the AI hydra 64HD I have a rimmed tank but it looks like it will be wide enough the rim is 1 1/4” thick
Here are the links, the website still displays the old ones but we are shipping the new updated brackets and flex arm.
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/hydra-flex-arm-aqua-illumination.html
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/hms-fiftytwo-bracket-aqua-illumination.html
I have Aqua Illumination hydra 26 lights, if I purchased a hydra 64 can i program them all together.
Unfortunately they are not able to be paired together. They connect wirelessly through different means, one is bluetooth and the other is wifi only.
My tank has 3 AI Vega color LED lights on it, will a hydra and controller work with the Vegas also so they can all link together
The AI vega controller will not work on the new AI 64. They are bluetooth controlled only.
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