Aquastyle.com LED kits??

milkman55 said:
I just received the 36 LED kit for my 40b with the dimmable drivers. Built the canopy and aluminum U channel to mount the LED's. Hope to have it running within a couple of weeks.
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I would LOVE to see pics. I'm debating on how to mount mine. Im going to order two of their 24 kits.
 
pwreef...may I ask which color white leds you bought?
also, what ratio of W:RB did you wind up doing and what K value would you say your fixtures are producing?

thanks
C :)
 
has anyone purchased from AquaStyle via email and paypal for a custom order as opposed to their site?
if so, how was your transaction experience?
 
I purchased custom stuff because I did not want drivers and I wanted larger heatsinks. Just e-mail them. They usually respond 24 hours later or so. I negotiated what I needed and then sent paypal payment. It took a week or so for them to ship my stuff out. I went 1:1 RB to 10K white. I have separate dimmers for each color that I use with my Reefkeeper. I am sorry I cannot tell what the color is. I am quite new at this whole thing. Plus the colors change of course depending on what % dim you have. I found that the whites are too white. The coraline that is nice and red under my warm white ceiling lights is quite washed out under the LED. The only thing I can compare to is my old light which was Coralife with 150MH and 2 PC 50/50 Actinic/White. The MH bulb in that is 14K it says, but to me there is no blue in it at all. Its just a yellowish kind of light. I will try to take better pictures, but all in all I don't think that these LEDs are going to be drastically different from CREE. I think its just the matter of personal choice and experimenting a little. After all at $2/LED its OK to buy some even if you won't use them.
 
I order a custom setup from them just a few days ago. I changed it twice after it was ordered with some of the new things that they came out with no questions asked. It shipped already and will be here Wednesday. I definitely recommend to everyone.
 
I have ordered twice now from them and each time they were very accommodating. I did it via e-mail and not their site. I dealt with Ray each time. They are slow to reply (Seems like only 1 reply a day) but other than that everything I got from them was exactly what I expected of it.

I know people love pictures, so here are some shots from my build on their products. I am in the process of building another array right now for my 120G Reef tank, which has 144 LED's with a ratio of 2:1 RB:W. They didn't have meanwells when I first ordered, so I got their manual dimmer versions. Now with the meanwells I will be using an ALC on a Reefkeeper to dim them for me.

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Very polished fixture, good job.
The light output and coverage looks good. How many LEDs are on that fixture and what mix of color?
 
milkman55 said:
Very polished fixture, good job.
The light output and coverage looks good. How many LEDs are on that fixture and what mix of color?
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Thanks,
I actually made 6 of them, just didn't have a all the parts shown.

I used mostly white (10K) and Royal Blues. There was 2UV's and 1 Red on some of the fixtures.

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I ended up selling off 4 fixtures and kept 2 of them over the tanks as it was way too much light for what I was doing. I have a Maxspect Fixture + 2 of my DIY fixtures split across 80" of tank now and I am getting good growth.
 
Do you have any pictures of the leds mounted on the heatsink? Im trying to order and wanted to do a 2:1 ratio also but am trying to figure out how to arrange them. Thanks!
 
i have the 90 led kit from aquastyle. i was trying to attach my led's to my heat sink but the plaster never set even after an hour i could still move the led around and the package says dries in 10 min. the heatsink i am using is 3/4 inch aluminum u channel. whats your experience with this? did yours set up or remain flexable
 
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