[ben]

just made this led light holder out of electical trunking.as you can see i can drill a lovely straight line :roll:.ive cut the ends so its angled and will aim the light from the front of the tank down towards the rock.

cheers
ben

[WAZ_M]

hey ben it's straight like a dogs back leg. does it make any difference?
am considering putting led's on my new system a bit further down the line but worry about how many i'm going to need to get the right effect on my tank.

post a pick of how it looks with just those on so we can see the effect.

[ben]

hi warren ,bent as jason on the weekend lol. it makes no difference to the way the tank lights up and ill post a pic later when they are on .

[WAZ_M]

thanks. will check back later.

let me know what you think of my new set up. will post better picks tomorow.
picked up some of my corals from jason earlier but am transfering them over slowly. still got about 8 more to collect.

[ben]

get those pics up asap then ill know if its worth me comming to see it in the flesh lol

[ben]

blue lights on there own but its a bit of a naff picture.they always come out like this when its just the blues on.anyway ,you can get an idea but it is better in the flesh.

[Mike4271]

Nice lights Ben, but I would be careful about them facing out for the photo, if I remember right, Virgin Atlantic approach Heathrow somewhere near to you :mrgreen:

[ben]

theres only one virgin in camborne (my town) and that goes past on railway lines.

[SLAPPY]

ben said:

theres only one virgin in camborne (my town) and that goes past on railway lines.

[jason@jasonsaquatics]

Bent lol ,you not trying it on with me again are you ben .
You know my girlfriend hates it when you flirt with me .

What is the wats on the lights ben .
I was going to use the spot leds as there 1.5w with the output of a 20w unit .

Maybe we can see what yours look like then mine as go from there .

jas

[WAZ_M]

Hey ben. Don't look to bad. will have too came round some time to have a look in the flesh. Not a bad job for a plumber i thought you guys where sacred of electicity!!!

[ben]

i can just about handle 24v ,after that i start having panic attacks.
dont know the wattage ja, dosnt say anywhere.


ben

[treeboa]

interesting project, i am just about to start a similar one using 8k white 3mm led`s as supplimentary lighting, got 100 of the buggers to play with, however as its a rio 400 i have lots of room to play, though my thoughts are to caniblise the center bar and mount the leds in there and the control gear, idea came from a something i saw when a friend used his camera phone to take a pic over my tank, his has 2 leds to enhance the lighting for the pic, £10 for the leds from ebay, lot of 3 mm holes to drill, a 75 watt power supply on the way, interesting that your using the blues though, i have 12 inch cold cathode tubes in the lid which i use to provide a moonlight effect, works well especially as they can be dimmed to provide the light output you want

[ben]

hi, i dont use that light bar anymore as ive changed tanks, but it was effective. i also tried the cold cathode lights as well and they worked great. be interesting to see some pics of the unit as you make it.

[treeboa]

damn, managed to locate and pickup a rio400 center bar so i dont ruin the good one i have, got it home and the underneaths mate from aluminium , im sure i read somewhere that this stuffs deadly in marine tanks so the projects on back burner untill i can find another centerbar