My DIY LED Build

[goisles1]

This is a placeholder for my upcoming LED build

Moving contents of my 45Gal - 3 foot tank on the main floor to a 55Gal - 4ft tank in my basement office. This Tank will most likely remain there for the long Haul. However, during the summer I will be adding a larger show tank to my living room and plumb them all together to a basement Sump.

I am doing a 48 LED fixture mounted in a canopy. Using this as an experiment to see how DIY goes and to see if China LEDS deliver

Here are the parts I've ordered/acquired:

Bridgelux LEDS (Aliexpress from China) - Ordered not recevied yet:

20 Blue @ 460nm~475nm
10 Super Blue @ 440nm~460nm
20 Whites @ 4500K~10000K
5 Red @ 620nm~630nm
5 Green @ 515nm~535nm
50 Lenses @ 80degrees

Drivers (coralux.com) - RECEIVED:
4 x LDD-700H Meanwell
1 Coralux driver board

Power (LEDGroupbuy) - RECEIVED:
48V/150w Power supply
50ft of wire
2 orders of Thermal Adhesive

Heatsinks (Heatsinkusa) - RECEIVED:

4 - 2x18 inch heatsinks (was the cheapest option for this experiment)



For the 55, I may just go 2:1 Blues to White and forgo the Reds and Greens I ordered. Maybe I'll just use them for the refugium in a seperate little 10LED build.

Or, I may add a couple of them into the White Strings.

So my current thought process is...

2 strings of 12 Blue/SBlue
1 string of 12 White/Blue
1 string of 12 White

But.. I'm VERY open to suggestions... Should I bring the Reds/Greens into this?

Anyway.. I'll post pics if it's not too Ghetto looking

 

[vio]

This is a placeholder for my upcoming LED build

Moving contents of my 45Gal - 3 foot tank on the main floor to a 55Gal - 4ft tank in my basement office. This Tank will most likely remain there for the long Haul. However, during the summer I will be adding a larger show tank to my living room and plumb them all together to a basement Sump.

I am doing a 48 LED fixture mounted in a canopy. Using this as an experiment to see how DIY goes and to see if China LEDS deliver

Here are the parts I've ordered/acquired:

Bridgelux LEDS (Aliexpress from China) - Ordered not recevied yet:

20 Blue @ 460nm~475nm
10 Super Blue @ 440nm~460nm
20 Whites @ 4500K~10000K
5 Red @ 620nm~630nm
5 Green @ 515nm~535nm
50 Lenses @ 80degrees

Drivers (coralux.com) - RECEIVED:
4 x LDD-700H Meanwell
1 Coralux driver board

Power (LEDGroupbuy) - RECEIVED:
48V/150w Power supply
50ft of wire
2 orders of Thermal Adhesive

Heatsinks (Heatsinkusa) - RECEIVED:

4 - 2x18 inch heatsinks (was the cheapest option for this experiment)



For the 55, I may just go 2:1 Blues to White and forgo the Reds and Greens I ordered. Maybe I'll just use them for the refugium in a seperate little 10LED build.

Or, I may add a couple of them into the White Strings.

So my current thought process is...

2 strings of 12 Blue/SBlue
1 string of 12 White/Blue
1 string of 12 White

But.. I'm VERY open to suggestions... Should I bring the Reds/Greens into this?

Anyway.. I'll post pics if it's not too Ghetto looking

So, NO Violet, NO Purple i mean , NO UV ?!
I like better Cyan then Green (505 nm) may be just me. From 440 nm, down u got nothing ?! u may need just 2 Deep Reds and 2 Cyan (in stand of Green) that my opinion.

 

[goisles1]

I was anxiously awaiting your reply vio...

I will build it with just the Blues and whites then add a 5th driver for the full spectrum LEDS in phase 2.

The mistake I made was only ordering the Coralux 4 driver board. I should have ordered the 5 or even the 6 so I could add another driver. But I'll just order the version where the wires get soldered directly to the driver.

So, pretend this is an old fixture running 48 BLue/White LEDS at a 2:1 ratio. If you wanted to add another string of LEDS to make it full spectrum, what would you add?

 

[vio]

i build 2 , i got 7 lights, i just buy 220 Gal. Acrylic i go back on 400 W MH, but if u decide for 3 ch. i will add. Deep Red (2-3 leds), Cyan (4-5 leds),Violet (4-5 leds) those colors make very nice comb.

 

[vio]

I got PAR meter, when u ready, i can help u, i buy list 5 kinds of Lens until i find the right ones.

 

[vio]

Any updates ?!

 

[goisles1]

Hey.. Yep...

LEDS all attached to heatsinks and all wired up.

Drivers soldered to Coralux driver board.

I just need to figure out a way to test the lights without pulling apart my entire controller from the running tank.

I have the 6 port dimming module that I need to add to my system.

Most likely I will test it this afternoon.


I'll take some pics

 

[vio]

About light

Any updates ?!

Let's see it.lol

 

[goisles1]

Ok ok.. I'll get some pics.. it's up and running. Moving the sump and livestock to it today.

I love the look. So curious now how all my coral will do