UPDATE --- UPDATE --- UPDATE --- UPDATE --- UPDATE --- UPDATE

ETG has shipped LEDs and lenses as of today. I'm waiting for the tracking info to update so I can get a delivery date, but I should see them by Wednesday.

First batch of the drivers (90 units) will be hitting my distributor from Meanwell 6/10/09. The remainder (51 units) will drop on 6/24/09. Not quite the 3-4 weeks that I was told before, but a far sight better than the 10-12 weeks that it could have been. I'm still negotiating to see if they will break up the shipping and not screw me for two shipping charges.

HOORRRAAAYYYY!!!!!!

Great news. Will you be able to ship out LEDS and lenses when you have them and ship the drivers separately later?

Thanks again for putting all this together,

Ron

yay!

do you have a pic of sunpod logo yet

In an effort to reduce costs, for me and for you, I'd like to ship them both at once unless you have any major objections. It doubles my shipping cost if I have to ship twice.



Yes I do. Have I posted them? No I knew there was something I forgot to do last night.

did somebody say pichers?

Evil you can wait and shipped when you have all the parts together.

Thank you for everything.

Pitchers





It's pretty small being only 1" long and ~3/8" tall. Keep in mind the actinics are 8" long and 1" tall. It will look pretty sharp once etched into the black anodizing, but won't stand out too much. Thanks go to cdelicath for the design.

looks sweet nice job cant wait

Agreed...i like the font a lot.....back to waiting as fast as possible LOL Take your time evil we appreciate it!!

Very nice.

Cool! Like the font

looks great evil

Evil, you are such a tease!

Hi evil,
I know you are busy, but when you get a chance, can you please list the items we need to make the meanwells dimmable? Or if there is a thead already, can you point us in the right direction. Man I can't wait. I'm just so excited. I read somewhere that we may need a 10 v power supply for the meanwells. Thanks again my "teacher".

Hi evil,
I know you are busy, but when you get a chance, can you please list the items we need to make the meanwells dimmable? Or if there is a thead already, can you point us in the right direction. Man I can't wait. I'm just so excited. I read somewhere that we may need a 10 v power supply for the meanwells. Thanks again my "teacher".

Most of the dimming discussion has been in the Meanwell thread in the Lighting forum. It will be a simple pwm circuit using a 555 timer and a few support components (two diodes, capacitor, pot, LM317 vreg and a resistor), and will run on a 12v supply. I will put a voltage regulator (LM317) on it to drop the voltage to the required 10v for the Meanwell. I have been running out of time on getting the circuit finished, but all thats left is finding the appropriate capacitor value to set the frequency. The first version didn't seem to respond well, so I wanted to up the frequency to about 2kHz. I should have a circuit built and working ready for you guys before the first batch of drivers ships.

I like!

woah hot!!!

Can't wait for the sunpod actinics...this is going to be kick ass!!!

any updates on the satellite fixtures? maybe the evilighting sticker on it O.o

The Satellites might be the last things to go out, just becuase there is more work on those than anything else. I'm trying my best to get them out quickly. I had thought about adding the logo to the front of those. Might look cool.

are they going to be all black with that logo that will be cool

Yup

Hey, I like your log alot!! I bet if you found a good picture or symbol to put with it it could be even better!

Just my .02.

You might want to keep those types of comments private. If you enjoy evil's "log" you should tell him via PM.

lol, you guys crack me up!

Hmmm...shipped to you last Wednesday, and no recent updates. Are we going to get some surprises in the mail soon? I have light-hungry corals...

LEDs and lenses are scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Should be interesting to see what this many LEDs looks like. I'll try and get the first round of shipments out this weekend to those that ordered only LEDs and lenses. Drivers are still about 2-3 weeks out.

Yay! Hope I'm in that round lol I'm so excited

Woohoo! Thanks Clive!

question, may sound noobish, but do you need a driver for the pico LED lamps?
and out of curiosity, do the LED's in Sunpod fixtures not need a driver?

Pico lamps have the driver in the lamp. Just screw it into a lamp socket. The Sunpod Actinics have the driver on board, so all you have to do is plug it in. What, you think I was going to make this difficult for you guys?

Speaking of Pico lamps, They finally shipped yesterday after getting held up in customs last week for the Memorial Day holiday. Don't know if I will see them this week, but early next week for sure.

How about the LED add-on for the sunpods?

I have had a number of people ask me about this, so I might as well post an update here.

Parts are out to the anodizers, but I'm still waiting on a number of parts to come in yet. I'm expecting to start shipping these out in about two weeks. I appologize for the delay on this, but with the volume of orders, it's taking quite a while to get everything straight by myself. Please be patient.

Thanks for the update!

If you get the chance take some pics of all the LEDs when they arrive. Would be cool to see that many all in one pile! Obviously this is not a priority however...

Thanks for the update Evil!

Don't worry, there will be pictures

And here they are...







Thats what about 1900 LEDs and 1300 lenses looks like.

Orders will start going out this weekend.

thats a lot

Nice

any words on the extras?

He is not going to send any of them out and make a light fixture for a 5000 gal tank!!!

Excellent! Looking forward to starting the build!
- e

This is really cool. Guinness Book of World Records...here we come....most amateur electricians building complex lighting fixtures on one website.

Sweeeeeeeet...

Or most fish tanks set on fire! haha j/k ... I hope

I still have to sit down and figure out what is left over. There isn't much as there was only one non payment and three cancellations. I also ordered a few of everything for myself

Can't wait!

Good news. Lamps for the Pico lamps showed up a few minutes ago, so I'm going to start modding those this weekend too.