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Nice! Which tank are you running this over?
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Sounds like a great setup. Can't wait to see it running
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Holding pretty much a reefer get together at my place tomorrow afternoon for my fishie buddies who want to come looksee.
Anthony
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I know, a thread like this without pics is not worth much sooooo...
Some quick pics of the LED array over the tank: Pic 1: 12 x 10w 10000k (120 watts total) Pic 2: 12 x 10000k; 3 x 6500k; 3 x 20000k (180 watts total) Pic 3: 12 x 10000k; 3 x 6500k; 3 x 20000k; 8 x 455nm blues (260 watts total) The left side is open top, the middle has about 3 panes of dirty glass tops for the light to pass through, and the right side has one pane of dirty glass top to pass through. Thanks for looking.
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Looks like it'll do the trick! where did you find 10w Leds? I havent seen a build with anything over 3w yet, but I am still a newbie!
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Ordered them online.
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10 W LED's sounds good !
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OK. Time for an update.
So we're onto V2 or Version 2 of my LED unit using 10w emitters. My friend built V2 with more aluminum bars to create a bigger heatsink so NO fans are needed. It's completely passive cooling and no problems even at full power. Warm but not hot to the touch. I changed out the mix of colours to 6 x blue 445 nm; 6 x blue 455 nm; 3 x 6500k whites; 3 x 20000k whites & 10 x 10000k whites. I like a very blue look to my display tank so I may even switch out some 10000ks for more blues. As for how well V1 & V2 work for growing corals, I picked up a branching hammer mid-July with about 8 big heads and a few baby heads. Now it has a total of 47 heads on it (as of tonight) and the entire "branch" is covered when the lights are on. So roughly went from 17 to 47 heads in 3 months. It took a while for the LPS to adapt to the higher intensity of 10w LED emitters but now I can blast full power if I want (280w total over a 165g) without any issues. I usually have the blues on 100% and the whites at 60-80% though cause I like the bluer look. Will post pics this weekend hopefully.
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looks good, any better picture of the fixture its self?
where are you guys getting these 10 watt LEDs from? Steve
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Mine were ordered from DealsExtreme.
Good components, but terrible service. Too long to get my last order of emitters.
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