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What I spent my Friday night doing

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by adampottebaum, Feb 3, 2012.

  1. adampottebaum

    adampottebaum Experienced Reefkeeper

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    The girlfriend was out of town so I got time to finish my project!
    Heatsink - 6" x 9" predrilled from Rapid LED
    LEDs - 14 Royal Blue and 9 Cool White Cree XR-E
    Drivers - (2)Mean Well LPC-35-700s (blues and whites on separate drivers)
    Fan - 3"
    I gutted a fixture I made about a year ago while taking the plunge into LEDs(before it was cool, ha). I had a 6' tank and knew I would be downsizing to a 4' tank when I moved to Omaha, so I tested my skills on one fixture until I made enough mistakes where I knew what I was doing on the "nicer" two fixtures I made for the 4' tank. The first fixture was supposed to be my frag tank light, but I just did too ugly of a job on it that I had to re-do it. It looks MUCH nicer now!
    Anyways, on to the pics!
    Here's a picture of the fixture before I ran the driver wires through the hole to complete the circuits. I mounted the drivers and fan on top of the heatsink so there would be just one series of wires coming off the fixture, making it cleaner looking. The white LEDs are on the red wire string, the blues are on the black wire string.
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    Here's a picture of it over my frag tank compartment of my sump.
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    Picture of the fixture lit up.
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    And finally a lousy picture of my frag tank compartment. It's 15" x 15" x 5" tall. I built the right side of my sump so that I could run flow off of my return pump to provide flow to the frag tank, then the water would spill over the right side of the frag tank to where the refugium is underneath. I don't know if I'm happy with this setup yet, but it's supposed to allow me to light my frag tank and light the macro algae underneath with the same light.
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    I'm going to cut the eggcrate and fit it tomorrow and bring the two mag-racks from my display down(finally!). I'll probably do some more fragging to fill it up right away too!
     
  2. AJ

    AJ Inactive User

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    Nice!

    --AJ
     
  3. einsteins

    einsteins Experienced Reefkeeper

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    Nice job on the wiring!

    One thing I never liked about DIY led projects is how so many look like a tangled mess after they are wired up.
    Looks like it is putting out a lot of light also

    Bill
     
  4. adampottebaum

    adampottebaum Experienced Reefkeeper

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    Yea, hopefully not too much light! The Nebraska Reef Club has a par meter that I might borrow. Otherwise, I might bring home the par meter from the zoo if it's acceptable.
     
  5. MJB Tanks Well-Known ReefKeeper

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    Looks great...very appealing color output imo /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif
     
  6. adampottebaum

    adampottebaum Experienced Reefkeeper

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    Yea it looks pretty awesome, my phone(like most cameras), can't take good pics of the LEDs. They're just hard to capture.
     

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