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Here Is My Biocube 14 Led Retro

4 buckpuck

15 led

1 80 mm Fan

1 Cold CathodeMoon Light

Custom Machined Heatsink

= Lots Of Light

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Thanks EVIL here is my LED build

 

70watt mh with 14k astralux bulb

with 6 Cree XRE-RB stars for supplement

mounted on 9"x11" aluminum heatsink salvaged from electronics from work (now thats recycling)

 

 

The tank is not built as of yet its basically going to be 13"x13"x30" imagine a 20L on its side tall instead of wide wall mounted in a dividing wall between my living room and dining room.

 

Well here are a few pictures

fixture pics

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test on top of my seaclear aio 48" long by 20 tall tank

left side lit by 27watt 50/50 and atnic 27watt center lit by aquapod hood with 28w 50/50 28w 10k and 18w 50/50 and right side lit by 6 cree xre royal blue LED Picture taken for comparison 70w halide not lit in pic

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Hope you approve

thanks for your write ups they inspired my build.

kratie

(JD)

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Interesting setup. Make sure you add more pics (or a thread) once you get the new tank running.

 

FYI, we are at 59 documented LED builds. Good job everyone. I want to be well over 100 by this time next year.

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Then let me bump that to 60 :lol:

Heres my new setup

23 LEDs

12 RB

11 CW

2 Meanwell ELN60-48P (Not dimmable at the moment)

8"x8" Heatsink. No Optics for now

140mm Fan

This is my third lamp posted in this thread!

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My Biocube 14 LED retrofit

Thread Link Here

 

(6) Cree RB

(6) Cree WG- Q5

Thermal pads from nanotuners

2 Power supplies

2 1000ma buckpucks w/ pots

80mm Silenx fan top mounted blowing in

sunglasses

 

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Alright, lemme enter my ghetto setup ;)

 

8 Royal Blue XRE, 1 Meanwell ELN 60-48D, dimmed using a 9v power adapter and a 10K pot. Turned the SRV2 up a bit to get more amperage through the LED's using the slightly undersized 9v power supply.

 

First, the heatsink is actually 2 12" long heatsinks scobbled together. These were "discounted" cut-offs from www.heatsinkusa.com. Just call them, they are good people to deal with. But that's why there's bolts in it.

 

 

Second, I forgot to blow the shop dust off of it, so it looks like it has a ton of salt creep already on it.

 

Notice there IS a splash guard under it but it's hard to see in the pics.

 

 

Fixture in place in my canopy, in front of my Nova 4X24., I need to tape the wires to the suspension cable to keep them in place.

 

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LED's plus T5:

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Overexposed :angry: pic of the LED's only. They look TOTALLY different in person.

 

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Crappy quality video of LED's only

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Here is a link to my build from over a year ago. Better late than never I guess.

 

 

Here is a FTS, but the tank is much different now. The most important thing is the light is still as sweet as it was when I finished it. The only difference is I ditched the BPs and am now running a meanwell.

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

It was a long weekend and I hit some snags despite what felt like a lot of research and planning, but my LED retro BC14 has the lights back on. I'm especially proud of my heatsink mounting using nylon spacers and the original lugs that held the PCs and reflector in place on the underside of the lid. Virtually everything else is that same as many others here. The complete write-up is here in the Members Aquariums section.

 

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http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=221657

 

My LED fixture, with custom acrylic, 5/5 CW/RB CREEs, and dimmer knobs. I worked on this with a friend, and we're very nearly ready to put on the finishing touch, which is pasting up a heatsinkUSA heatsink and adding an acrylic lid with a mounted fan assembly.

 

I'll post more details and more pics in the actual thread in the near future.

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My LED build for 3' 30 Gal.

(sorry about mobile phone pics)

 

12x Cree XPG White

12x Cree XPE Royal Blue

2x Meanwell ELN-60-48P (100% duty via 9v battery)

2x Heatsinks (Jaycar)

2x Thermal Pad sheets (cut 4x4 pieces)

 

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FTS

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Wiring

- note speaker cable to power supply is looped through hole for mechanical strain relief.

- LEDs stuck down on thermal pads (drill metal before this stage, else shavings stick to pads)

- Solid Core wire was biatch to bend, switched to stranded for 2nd heatsink. (blue vs purple wire)

 

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From Above

- Heatsinks underated. They get too hot 50c+ with 24x 3watt heat.

(Only running white OR blue now.)

- Needs fans to be wired on.

- Resting on glass sheet, raised on wooden clothes pegs and rubber feet.

(keeps heat away from glass)

 

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I have since switched to Meanwell LPC35-700

700ma same light, heatsink runs cooler.

BUT drivers run HOT, 50% size, yet 2/3 power :(

 

Now on 24hr timer, while waiting for PWM board to be finished.

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well Ive been working on my led fixture for the last few months. Anyways, here are some comparison shots of it next to a 150w 12k reeflux. The fixture is 18 leds (8white, 10 blue). Sorry about the poor photo quality, it isn't that grainy or blue in person. Cell phone pictures.

 

 

You might not be able to tell but the halide's light is in the shadow of the LED, where the light drops off dramatically.

 

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