Can I squeez any more lighting into a Eclipse1 hood?

[HavinPhun]

Ok, I have this POS Eclipse1 hood sitting around and I want to do something with it. I bought a 10L tank and I figure it is so shallow that if I could even get 30w or so of lighting into this hood, then I could keep something in it. Any suggestions?

 

[Anonymous]

Check the nano reef forum here and see if anyone has any experience with hacking the hood. Do a dearch in DIY forum may help too. It is done before with LOA (Light of America) brand of ballast as well as HelloLight setup. You need to find the specific. good luck.

 

[jeffrey_ropp]

Custom Sea Life made a retro kit for the Eclipse 1 hood which provides 32W. I installed it and was able to grow mushrooms and some other low light polyps.

Here's a more nteresting solution (64W!) If I was keeping my eclipse I would probably try it.
http://www.inlandreef.com/eclipse.html

Good luck,
Jeff

 

[Rikko]

I once retrofitted a customer's Eclipse hood with self-ballasted T5s. I could have fit 3, maybe even 4 in the hood (it was a double Eclipse 2), but he only wanted 2 for his FOWLR. The light output was already in excess of what he had before, and they weren't even HO tubes (I was concerned about heat dissipation).

These are the ones I used:

 

[tr4veler]

Here's a more nteresting solution (64W!) If I was keeping my eclipse I would probably try it.
http://www.inlandreef.com/eclipse.html

Good luck,
Jeff

I just bought http://www.championlighting.com/e/e...=/Products/productinfo.html&item=main:2x28diy this 2x28w CF kit for an Eclipse 1 single light. The brackets are wider that thouse used in the inlandreef link so both didn't fit. The balast is able to drive a single light and that's how I wired it. Fit real easy. and provides a ton more light.[/url]