diy led lights

[hijinks]

There is a nice write up on this over at RC

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1587273

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it.. more so Wingo's on the setup and leds he is using.. also his PAR readings since he posted them also

 

[pmoneyt]

nice i think i might try this out. but i would add more LEDS, moon lights, and Actinics.

 

[hijinks]

I think his total cost was something around 600 for a 48 inch unit.. first diy led light that actually looks nice without gutting a old unit.. I think the only thing I'd look to add is a glass screen but not sure how that would effect the optics

 

[Keith P]

Not bad. I don't like the shadow in the middle that he has and the par is a little low, no?
A good start, but definitely room for improvement.

I'd love just half that fixture for a nano

 

[hijinks]

I'm no LED expert.. but if wingo is still selling is 11k leds.. replace the 6500k ones with those and the par rating *should* go up.. the price difference might be $1-$1.50 a led.. so not that much of a difference.

 

[Keith P]

how long of a fixture are you planning to make?

 

[hijinks]

36 inches

 

[tosiek]

I would love to hear wingo's input on this all. =0)

 

[emmanuel]

I made a fixture for my 125 but only to cover a third of the tank and used almost the same amount of lights for only 24 inches and have the ability to drive them a full 1000 ma I think he drove half of them at 700 ma . He did an excellent job on the thread and everything is right on the only thing I dont like is the epoxy he used to attach the led's it saves a lot of time but if you ever have to replace bulbs i hear it can be a problem . Drilling and tapping takes a lot of time on my second fixture instead of tapping threads i used sheet metal screws and they worked fine.
That space between the 2 sections of lights is a bit too much

 

[hijinks]

how is youe diy setup doing?

 

[emmanuel]

good just waiting on a power supply you can see a pic herepost #12
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...5448-led-users-i-need-input-2.html#post569788

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

There is a nice write up on this over at RC

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1587273

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it.. more so Wingo's on the setup and leds he is using.. also his PAR readings since he posted them also

If he changed the LEDs to my 12,000K 150lumens he will get a even higher PAR rating while saving some money. In his thread his Cree 107lumens are at ~7.5 while my 150lumens are only $8.0 and since mine's are on the higher K there is less need for the blues.

The power supply could have been a bigger one-it's running too close to it's max.

I like his heat sink VERY muscular! It feels like it must work once you see it-the bigger the heavier the betterr.