48" LED Array - Up and Running...Mostly

[hillegom]

Sounds good. Except, I wouldn't want the frag right away. I still have that 120 to build. When it gets done, things would even out. You get the PS now, I get the frag later.
Its only taken more than a year to build the stand!

[Ron99]

After lots and lots and lots of wiring I have all the LEDs working. I decided to get fancy and do everything with molex connectors so stuff can be removed/replaced easily. But it looks a bit like wiring spaghetti right now. I'll clean it up as I mount it all in the housing. Here's the drivers and wiring and all the LEDS wired up:







And here it all is fired up.



Still need to mount optics, pick up some fans and I'm waiting for the Arduino parts which should arrive this week and I can figure out the controller.

[superduperwesman]

AWESOME! Looks very nice

[Zoaelite]

Ron that's pretty impressive! Watch out you might get sued for copy right infringement considering what happened to solaris .

I can't want to see it on an actual fish tank with with some PAR values!
Levi

[Ron99]

P.S. Big thanks to hillegom for the power supply. I owe you a frag or three when your new tank is up and running

[hillegom]

Thanks Ron.
Will look forward to a frag or so. Nice to be able to help with that big project of yours.
Surplus here for surplus there.

[byee]

Also check out reefprojects.com for code.

Pointless to re-invent the wheel especially when all this stuff is open source.

[Ron99]

Whoops, not sure what happened with that last post

Originally Posted by superduperwesman

AWESOME! Looks very nice

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Ron that's pretty impressive! Watch out you might get sued for copy right infringement considering what happened to solaris .

I can't want to see it on an actual fish tank with with some PAR values!
Levi

Thanks guys. I say bring it! I'll take on Orbitech and their marginal patent!

So just out of curiosity, in air, 18 inches away from the LEDs and no optics yet: 260 PAR. This is gonna be good