Led system for a red sea max

For anyone who saw all the drama about my thread in the classifieds I wanted to clarify what happened. Aquablue and I got talking one day about LEDs and he told me that he has built some setups of his own. I was really interested and he graciously offered to help me put LEDs in my red sea max. He was great and told me all the things i needed to buy. I went to his house the other night and he installed the LEDs into the hood of my red sea max. he was great and has a great knowledge of electronics. he tought me about how it worked and the whole setup.

Aquablue did this tottally out of kindness for a fellow member. I would like to extend that same kindness to everyone else who is interested in LEDS. I am in no wise interested in making money off helping other build these LEDs. I am also in no way an expert with electronics or LEDs like Aquablue is. I in no way meant to discredit his work. He came up with this design and full credit to him. thanks for helping a fellow member.

here is a picture of my tank with the the original power compact lights





Here it is now with the LEDs



Edited by backwards32 - August 17 2012 at 11:16pm

Thanks they turned out really good. I need yo get a few more parts and then I will be able to dim and adjust each color. he the setup is made with 10 watt leds. It has 2 blue 2 15000k and 2 20000k leds . so 60 watts total. it hardly puts off any heat at all

I apologize for my interpretation of the original post, sometimes it's hard to get the full context when you only have words on a page and aren't talking face to face.

A conclusion was jumped to that shouldn't have been, I'm glad the truth is better than fiction.

Aquablue is the expert and its his design but i would love to help you or anyone else who is interested.

here is a few pictures of the production phase

I just priced out mine. for the same setup that I have on mine it costs $125.62 but it could be done cheaper or more expensive just depending on what you wanted. each color on mine is adjustable.

yes. all the pictures are from my red sea max. the biocube is very simlar and the same could be done to it as well.