jedimasterben Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 If they're on separate heatsinks, don't run anything in parallel, it can much more easily lead to thermal runaway. Link to comment
gus6464 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Hey Ben where do you get those blueprint files for the heatsink? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Hey Ben where do you get those blueprint files for the heatsink? Chris emailed them to me. Do you have illustrator? Link to comment
gus6464 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Chris emailed them to me. Do you have illustrator? Indeed I do. Link to comment
Mariaface Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Yep, I just opened my giant jug of metricide for dosing, since its concentrated I'm only dosing 1ml to the tank at a time for now, don't want to melt my moss I have in there! Just ordered a gallon; I'm getting a bit tired of overpaying for Excel.. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 Just ordered a gallon; I'm getting a bit tired of overpaying for Excel.. Good! Forgot, this past weekend I got the LEDs on the heatsink and soldered them all up. Still don't have the clamp that will attach the gooseneck to the tank, so I can't get them attached to the driver board yet. I'm also not sure if I should paint the gooseneck, still trying to get that figured out. Link to comment
Droidsocket Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Hello jedimasterben! This was a great little tank! And your led choice seemed perfect. I joined this forum because this thread was great to read. I have a couple questions if you don't mind answering. I have a 40g B that I am setting up for plants. 36x18x16. I would love your input, based on your build here, how you would scale up this light rig for the larger tank. I'm not worried about heat sink or drivers yet. Just the LEDs. Thanks for your time? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Hello jedimasterben! This was a great little tank! And your led choice seemed perfect. I joined this forum because this thread was great to read. I have a couple questions if you don't mind answering. I have a 40g B that I am setting up for plants. 36x18x16. I would love your input, based on your build here, how you would scale up this light rig for the larger tank. I'm not worried about heat sink or drivers yet. Just the LEDs. Thanks for your time? I would basically double what I've got here, make two setups like the above and space them about 12" apart. The beauty of it all is that the powerhouse LEDs are just so dirt cheap, it's awesome. You could also do a single Vero 29 Decor Specialty 5600K at 700mA instead of a pair of Vero 18 Decor Specialty and have a single powerhouse beast in each, and run a single Decor Ultra Vero 10 at 700mA (and the other complementary colored LEDs at 700mA) and you'd have a more point-source type beast of an array. So basically, there are lots of choices and tweaks you could make that wouldn't change the look or feel too drastically, and using varied current LDD drivers you can adjust the light output and efficiency to whatever best suits your tank. These arrays are just SO much better than using a few dozen 'puny' LEDs Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 New light is up, and it's a wee bit on the strong side, even though I removed the 1A LDD and used 700mA and 350mA mixed, PAR is over 250 at the bottom at full power. The gooseneck I got from Dave was also not strong enough to hold the heatsink, and the mount was too small and would probably break the glass from the weight, so I was luckily able to use the old mount and gooseneck and they're both strong enough, though the mount is a bit broken. Link to comment
NYfishies Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 New light is up, and it's a wee bit on the strong side, even though I removed the 1A LDD and used 700mA and 350mA mixed, PAR is over 250 at the bottom at full power. The gooseneck I got from Dave was also not strong enough to hold the heatsink, and the mount was too small and would probably break the glass from the weight, so I was luckily able to use the old mount and gooseneck and they're both strong enough, though the mount is a bit broken. Saweeeet! Link to comment
O2Surplus Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Nice light Ben....makes your bare driftwood and tannins look beautiful! (Jk) Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Nice light Ben....makes your bare driftwood and tannins look beautiful! (Jk) OH, those tannins are going to get MUCH worse than that lol. Before I drained the tank Sunday, it was literally black, couldn't see anything! I boiled the hell out of that wood, and it just continued to laugh at me! Link to comment
NYfishies Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 OH, those tannins are going to get MUCH worse than that lol. Before I drained the tank Sunday, it was literally black, couldn't see anything! I boiled the hell out of that wood, and it just continued to laugh at me! Nice ladder! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Nice ladder! I think it really accents the tank Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Wow! Really a beautiful aquascape there Ben. Well done! I'm excited to see those plants fill in. Link to comment
NYfishies Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 In the 2.5 months I have been cycling my FW I have not seen any tannins. Perhaps my drift wood was broken? I see you have a fish in there - is that for the cycle? We are going to add a school of neon tetras next week! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Wow! Really a beautiful aquascape there Ben. Well done! I'm excited to see those plants fill in. thanks! Should be interesting. I still need to rubber band some of my moss to the end of the wood. Hmm. That's what he said? In the 2.5 months I have been cycling my FW I have not seen any tannins. Perhaps my drift wood was broken? I see you have a fish in there - is that for the cycle? We are going to add a school of neon tetras next week! Depends on what kind of driftwood you bought, some don't really leach tannins. This is Mopani wood, which has some incredible bouyancy and leaches forever and a day, but will also never rot away All of the remaining guppies and my clown pleco were moved in, shouldn't see too much of a cycle, I put some used filter floss in the canister. The sand should get populated shortly. Link to comment
tibbsy07 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 As I said before, this is so nice is almost makes me want a freshwater tank. Almost. I think it really accents the tank Helps the guppies climb, too Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 Also, if anyone wants my old light, let me know. It doesn't have the power supply or controller, but that's an easy fix. Will also come with a new gooseneck and clamp Link to comment
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