Nemos Boss
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i dont know y when i type led group buy as one it comes out clay-boa... weird..
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RapidLED does have a 4 inch heatsink that would work, they didn't used to! I just need to make sure I really know what I'm doing before I buy a bunch of LED crap and attempt to solder it together. Something to look into. Nanotuners used to make a perfect fixture, but it was like $300... no thanks, I'll just get an AI nano for that price. Or I could just do that and be done with it. It's sorta silly for such a shallow tank though.
One thing I was thinking is retrofitting the ecoxotic ecopico light strips into the hood. Not sure if that can be done but it seems like it would work. I need to call ecoxotic and see if the strips will function without the metal fixture they are intended to be mounted on.
One thing I was thinking is retrofitting the ecoxotic ecopico light strips into the hood. Not sure if that can be done but it seems like it would work. I need to call ecoxotic and see if the strips will function without the metal fixture they are intended to be mounted on.
No, actually that was just my cell phone camera!
ST1Doppelganger
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I went overkill with 2 inventronics drivers that have 6XML Cree cool whites 2 violet and 1 Red on one and then 6 Cree royal Blues on the other driver on a heat sink I cut to fit the hood. The hood is turned sideways and I have a second hood I'm waiting to cut to cover the pump. I made the mistake of running the light with no splash guard and moisture got to the LEDs and started rusting so when I was wiping off the LEDs a RB lens fell off but still works. I now have a piece of glass sealing it off and am waiting for my boss to place his order of LEDs so I can switch around the LEDs a bit. The plan is to clean up the wiring and to replace my red led with another violet as well as replacing the royal blue that is missing it's lens. Might also be adding two of the ocean whites that LED group buy sells which is a star that contains 1red 1turquoise and 1cyan for color pop. Yes I know this is overkill for a 6 gallon edge but will most likely upgrade to the larger edge and just use the fixture on that which will still be dimmed down.
Best lighting you could ask for.
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Here was the tank on Friday, everything is happy.
Today, I came back to see one of the MR11 lights had burned out. It looks like salt creep got this one, some water must have splashed right onto it and shorted it out. After the bad luck I've had with the previous set of LED's getting fried, I think I'm going to try a new approach.
Patricklong
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Oh wow, I see what you mean. Have you considered a piece of plexiglass or acrylic to separate the water from lights?
Apologies if that has been asked before.
Apologies if that has been asked before.
Time for an update. I totally gutted the stock light fixture, and bought the Wavepoint 8-watt Micro Sun high output fixture.
Fresh from the store.
I affixed it to the inside of the hood with industrial strength velcro, for now. I'm going to reinforce it too, so the velcro isn't the only thing holding onto the light.
I flipped the hood around, so the little spikes are in the front. They are almost the perfect size to keep the fixture wedged in place. As you can see, there are 8 x 1-watt LED's. Two are cool white, the others are royal blue, I believe. They certainly look like royal blue. I removed the armiture that comes screwed onto the fixture, I didn't need it here.
Just the fixture, with no supplementary lighting. Keep in mind the camera makes it bluer than it really is, IRL. It doesn't look this Windex-y.
Nice actinic pop
This is with my T8 under-cabinet lighting on. The tank is on my desk, and for once the cabinet lighting works with the aquarium lighting.
The view from my desk. It's even harder concentrate on my job with that gorgeous thing! :lol:
Next I am going to take the remnants of the stock fixture and rig the sockets into the hood, to add some white spectrum. The light looks amazing, but I really do want more white. I'm planning on using the MR11 sockets and some 4000k Philips LEDs, or another water-resistant LED. No more open circuitboards, that just doesn't work.
Fresh from the store.
I affixed it to the inside of the hood with industrial strength velcro, for now. I'm going to reinforce it too, so the velcro isn't the only thing holding onto the light.
I flipped the hood around, so the little spikes are in the front. They are almost the perfect size to keep the fixture wedged in place. As you can see, there are 8 x 1-watt LED's. Two are cool white, the others are royal blue, I believe. They certainly look like royal blue. I removed the armiture that comes screwed onto the fixture, I didn't need it here.
Just the fixture, with no supplementary lighting. Keep in mind the camera makes it bluer than it really is, IRL. It doesn't look this Windex-y.
Nice actinic pop
This is with my T8 under-cabinet lighting on. The tank is on my desk, and for once the cabinet lighting works with the aquarium lighting.
The view from my desk. It's even harder concentrate on my job with that gorgeous thing! :lol:
Next I am going to take the remnants of the stock fixture and rig the sockets into the hood, to add some white spectrum. The light looks amazing, but I really do want more white. I'm planning on using the MR11 sockets and some 4000k Philips LEDs, or another water-resistant LED. No more open circuitboards, that just doesn't work.
gemini aquarius(t)
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I really like those other bulbs. I think that mix will make for a really nice 20k look when fully lit! Keep us posted buddy 
gemini aquarius(t)
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Update por favor
