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Old 08-18-2012, 07:48 PM
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Nice tank, can you post a picture of your light rack with out the leds on so we can get a better look.
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Old 08-19-2012, 02:04 PM
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Nice tank, can you post a picture of your light rack with out the leds on so we can get a better look.
here are some pic’s from during the build of the led unit.

the aluminum frame is made out of the aluminum strips thy use to finished melamine countertops, it is a T shape profile, about 2.5 x 2.5 inches.

in the main frame I have 4 sets of 2 slabs of heat sink.

what I did is have the slabs of heat sink, only with white CREE LED’s = 12 per tile I think, so that’s 100

than next to each set of tile, I have on either side a strip of BLUE CREE = 6 on each side, that’s 48 blue.

now in between each combination mentioned above, there is one more single stip, with 3 bleu and 3 white

closing everything in are 2 stips the length of the entire build, and that hold 2 blue, one white, two blue again, one white and so on.

so in total, there is more white than bleu, and thee for I have one additional strip of 12 only blue, in the middle, and I’m working on 2 more, with only bleu.

in total I think there are about 250 CREE LED’s when I’m dun.


I have it all controlled whit a arduino, divided in 2 zones. and I had someone build me the CAT 4101 chip drivers, and there are 4 dimmable meanwell drivers.

i have one strip going on, gust bang 100% around 8:30 AM, and than at 11 am, I have 25% of all led go on from 0 to 100% in a hour, when thy are on at 100% at noon, the main 75% of the led’s go on over a hour to 100%, than everything is on at 100% for 7.5 hours, so that at 8:30 pm, the main 75% of led’s go off again over the time of a hour, and after that the last 25%, so at 10:30 pm it is dark again






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very nice light, your tank is really bright.
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Old 08-20-2012, 03:29 AM
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very nice light, your tank is really bright.
so far I'm happy, it is gust that i miss some more blue, as it is not even 50/50

after adding 24 more blue, I think, (have to count to be shore) that I'm getting close to the 50/50
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