help me with DIY full spectrum LED ideas
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Topic: help me with DIY full spectrum LED ideas
Posted By: sanddune600
Subject: help me with DIY full spectrum LED ideas
Date Posted: March 09 2013 at 5:49pm
I was thinking of putting together a LED light for my 40g breeder let me know what you guys think on what I have come up with so far will this be enough light is there better places to get LEDs I am interested in the bridgelux only place I have found them is ledgroupbuy
18 royal blue 455nm bridglux
12 natural white 4500k bridgelux
4 cool blue 470nm
4 turquoise 495nm
6 hyper violet 430 nm
4 deep red 660nm
a total of 48 leds and will be driven at 500mah or less
all of these are from LEDGroupBuy.com
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Andy Jorgensen
My number is four three 5 7 six four 8 0 three four
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Posted By: grassfairy
Date Posted: March 10 2013 at 11:28pm
I had a 24 DIY cree led fixture with 12 RB and 12 white can't remember what ks but it was plenty of light.
Also check out aquastyleonline.com they are bridgelux.
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Posted By: Mr.Gray
Date Posted: March 11 2013 at 8:35am
This is what I am putting together to light a 30g frag tank 24x24x12.
4x 5w cool white 8k
4x 5w blue 442nm
4x 3w blue 468nm
2x 3w red 660nm
1x 3w yellow 590nm
2x 3w green 520nm
4x 2.5w uv 415nm
I bassicly just copied the spectrums and number of lights from a radion pro. I am using mainly cree with a couple phillips leds. There are a bunch of "right" ways to do it. My philosophy was to run more lights than I need and have a lot of dimmable channels so I can fine tune it all and not have to run any leds at 100%.
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Posted By: chris.rogers
Date Posted: March 11 2013 at 12:37pm
I love my philips luxeon LEDs from www.stevesleds.com. I have 6 white and 6 royal blues. It's a ton of light.
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Posted By: Laird
Date Posted: March 12 2013 at 4:55pm
Contact Bill, username sitaga about them.
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Once I have my glorious return I'll set back up the following.
50 Gallon rimless cube.
180 Gallons mixed reef paradise
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Posted By: Nails12
Date Posted: March 12 2013 at 8:31pm
Laird Knows whats up! Bill is amazing at what he does with LED's.
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This is more than a hobby; its a lifestyle.
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Posted By: Fatman
Date Posted: March 12 2013 at 10:08pm
We have built about 10 sets of 24 led fixtures. My son is goting to sell a few. He has been using royal blue, UV, andva mix of whites he can build you just about any you would want. Dimming drivers via pots or a controller.
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Posted By: ReefKeeper78
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 1:23am
Why are you only wanting to go with Bridgelux instead of cree?
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180Gal Reef with 576 Watts of LED's
16Gal Innovative Marine Nano LED lit
150 Gal Frag tank with MH
PADI Dive certified sure love that ocean..
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