Beamswork Evo 3W LED Mod

[jezz369]

For all you out there with Beamswork Evo LED lights that don't like the color, I have modded my led colors.

I bought 2x 420nm 3W LED's off eBay for about $5.
My Beamswork LED is the Evo 12 with 6x 3W LED's.

I found the current light set up was too white for my liking so I changed to this.

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Taking apart the casing was a piece of cake. Just two screws on the side and the front cover slides off.
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With the solder you have to pry up the sides of the LED so that the connectors aren't touching the board anymore. There is a little bit of glue under the LED so just shove the solder underneath and it will give way. Depending on how well you do this, you are able to reuse the old LED's. Here's a picture of the end product, excuse my bad soldering.
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Here's a picture of the end product with the middle lights turned on.
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Here's a picture of the end product with all the lights turned on.
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If you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

[oreo57]

For clarity.. Did you remove the lenses before sliding the "top" off?? Are they glued on?

 

[jezz369]

For clarity.. Did you remove the lenses before sliding the "top" off?? Are they glued on?

The plastic lenses are just clipped in. If you get a flat head screw driver they just pop off! I've left them off on my reef.

 

[oreo57]

The plastic lenses are just clipped in. If you get a flat head screw driver they just pop off! I've left them off on my reef.

The native optics on an LED are 110 plus degrees.. you may be shading the output a bit...and losing a bit of light..maybe........

 

[jezz369]

The native optics on an LED are 110 plus degrees.. you may be shading the output a bit...and losing a bit of light..maybe........

My tank is only 10 inches deep, wouldn't that be too intense for softies? And also it causes a spotlight type of look, not really merging the colors ime.