My weekend DIY

Justin74

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Heres my last years upgrade to breaking down an old fixture and retrofitting my lamps
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Due to lack of supplies and sheer exhaustion I had to leave some of the fixture on, which was cool at the time because it kept most of the wirring together but was a major hazard(loose) and an obstruction to the fan from cooling the bulbs and ballast. So then I did this

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Whatya think?

Theres three ballast there kinda hard to see, and once I come across some conduit I may mount over some of that with it to further "clean it up" in the cabinet area. Next move will be to mount the electrical in there, just means Ill have less room for my miscellaneous junk.
 
Forgot to add that it made a major difference in cooling, dropped the heat by 3 degrees.

Heres a FTS
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-Justin
 
Justin, I have a similar wet/dry filter and wanted a fuge. If you fill the sump near the top if the first baffle and put a light on the side of the sump you can have a fuge. I did this with mine and it works great. The pic is kinda old and I've added cheato since.
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The shapes appear to be similar but the baffling and water inputs are way different. Mine was engineered bass-akwards :D Didnt know this till later in the hobby, but where your light is is where my water drains into, I also dont have that extra chamber for skimming to the left of where your media tray went, I was thinking of doing that and making a fuge but I would have to flip everything around and with my DIY list just getting bigger I may never end up doing it.

-Justin
 
Thanks guys, Im really happy with the color difference.

Justin,What are the wattages and colors on those.....54w T-5s?
Mine that you see are the 36" 39w ones, front to back your looking at Actinic+,GE6500k,true actinic 03,11k,Actinic+
But they do have 48" 54w as well.

-Justin
 
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