Hey, hope eveyones doin well today. This will be my DIY LED light setup thread. I am in no way an expert and ive been around this hobby since 2000 but never had or maintained my own tank. I bought my whole setup for 180$ from my bestfriend I couldn't pass that deal up. But it came with the ugly hood lights that I cant stand. I sold the eel in it and got rid of this massive 20-30 pound rock that was in there.
LED setup:
30-3w led's 20 royal blue, 10 cool white, 3 dimmable drivers
Royal blue:
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFb
Cool White:
http://ift.tt/1qwnqsQ
Drivers:
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFd
Heatsinks:
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFg
Tank Specs:
55 gal 48 x 12 x 18 HOB filter unknown hood light
Tank has 2 snails, 18lbs of liverock, several feather dusters here and there, 2 brittle stars (one is MIA since the tank move) and a aiptasia anemone (hitchhiker).
I don't plan on adding anymore livestock to the tank until my lights and skimmer are operational. Probably about a month, then ill add a little more liverock, a banded coral shrimp, 2-3 more snails, a tang and a mandarin dragon (and maybe one frag coral & amenone test out the lighting). It will be like that until I can determine weither the lighting will work with the cheapo led's or if im going to invest in cree led's and build my new stand so I can put a sump in which IMO is a must because I would like stuff like polyps and the softer coral types (SPS & LPS just are not very pretty to me)
im going to put 15 led's on each heatsink in a standard grid pattern, my ultimate goal with building the new stand and canopy is to have the heatsinks flip up so I don't have to take off the canopy and can work on one side of the tank and only having 1/2 the lighting taken away vrs taking the whole canopy off and having no light to work with.
Pictures of how everything is setup now can be found in the next link with the exception of the LED light bar, I took that POS off and went back to hood lights which I don't even know what kind the light is but the anemone seems happy so who cares.
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFk
EBAY says the led's will be here by the end of the month, and ill be ordering the drivers this weekend, and the heatsinks probably next weekend, ill update as I get stuff in and built so until then adios!
LED setup:
30-3w led's 20 royal blue, 10 cool white, 3 dimmable drivers
Royal blue:
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFb
Cool White:
http://ift.tt/1qwnqsQ
Drivers:
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFd
Heatsinks:
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFg
Tank Specs:
55 gal 48 x 12 x 18 HOB filter unknown hood light
Tank has 2 snails, 18lbs of liverock, several feather dusters here and there, 2 brittle stars (one is MIA since the tank move) and a aiptasia anemone (hitchhiker).
I don't plan on adding anymore livestock to the tank until my lights and skimmer are operational. Probably about a month, then ill add a little more liverock, a banded coral shrimp, 2-3 more snails, a tang and a mandarin dragon (and maybe one frag coral & amenone test out the lighting). It will be like that until I can determine weither the lighting will work with the cheapo led's or if im going to invest in cree led's and build my new stand so I can put a sump in which IMO is a must because I would like stuff like polyps and the softer coral types (SPS & LPS just are not very pretty to me)
im going to put 15 led's on each heatsink in a standard grid pattern, my ultimate goal with building the new stand and canopy is to have the heatsinks flip up so I don't have to take off the canopy and can work on one side of the tank and only having 1/2 the lighting taken away vrs taking the whole canopy off and having no light to work with.
Pictures of how everything is setup now can be found in the next link with the exception of the LED light bar, I took that POS off and went back to hood lights which I don't even know what kind the light is but the anemone seems happy so who cares.
http://ift.tt/1qwnpFk
EBAY says the led's will be here by the end of the month, and ill be ordering the drivers this weekend, and the heatsinks probably next weekend, ill update as I get stuff in and built so until then adios!
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