Longiotti Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 starting my rebuild of my 504 LED hood for my 90 gal tank it has 504 10 MM leds. 50% white and 50% blue. I build it once before and it worked great but started dimming after about 2 months and then finally gave out. This had to of been from over heating. because the 10mm LEDs do not have very good heat sinks. this time I am going to use more fans, along with LED drivers instead of 12v power source with resisters. I am also making little heat sinks for each LED. here is the old hood. I will update pictures with my progress as I go. I wasn't going to do a build thread on this but I need something to do in between all this soldering. here is what it looked like before it blew up visually the only change is that I will be running rows of white and blue because it will be easier to wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef165 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 thats cool! Any more pic's of what it looks like over the tank, and the wiring and such? also what is the wattage of the LED's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenReefin Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Ya, I cant wait to someday have an LED only tank, cool beans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 I will be running 6 Mean Well ELN-60-48D dimmable driver. for each driver I will be running 12 LEDs in series and then 7 of those in parallel these LEDS are 100 MA and they run 3.0 to 3.6 volts per LED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 here is what I have so far still a lot to do. might just say up all night and get it done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titus'reef Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 that's cool. i would like to see some more details if that's not too much to ask. Very nice job so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr S Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Nice build thread. Keep the information posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 sorry I have been really busy going to get started back on this real soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Are you going to do the whole east to west, sunrise, sunset thing? I think it is awesome and if we decide to stick with LED's we are going that route. I have been very happy with my LED tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 not sure yet depends on how I wire it. right now I have a 4 T5 and 2 MH system and I have the t5s turn on and then 1 MH and then the next about 30 mins later. I like it so I might go that route or just have it get brighter and brighter then dimmer and dimmer not sure yet though. it sure does get me thinkin though thank you for bring up that option. I might not have thought about it. Are you going to do the whole east to west' date=' sunrise, sunset thing? I think it is awesome and if we decide to stick with LED's we are going that route. I have been very happy with my LED tank.[/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Here's a link to a DIY build currently going on where the member is doing the whole east to west thing if you wanted to get some more info http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/f12/diy-led-build-linear-design-59088/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 sorry, it has been awhile. Been busy with other hobbies. Yes I have other hobbies, so shoot me. anyways I got the LEDs all done. just need to finish with the wiring and drivers. more updates to come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Wow looks like quite the project. What are the little pieces of metal connecting the LEDs?? Is that used instead of wires? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 those are strips of copper. I wired it once with just wire and the LEDs started failing and burning out. I am thinking it was because they were over heating. So I am trying to use these as heat sinks. we will see if they work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindo Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 any updates on the LED setup?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longiotti Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 I am sorry to post that I am pulled the plug on this build. I really wanted to give it a try but I just do not have the time. I am sorry to those of you that were following along. I just have to much going on right now. I did post the drivers for sale on reef central. I was also going to justice the hood but if someone offered me $100 I would take it. There is over 300 just in leds if I do not get interest I am going to put it in the attic or garbage lol I have now decided yet I did buy some generic 120watt led reed lights on ebay. Got them very reasonable. I will do a little review thread on them when I get them. I donor like doing review treads but I could not find any customer reviews or anything on these when I was researching them. Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMiller Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 what are the dimensions on the hood? I would possibly be interested in it for our 110g set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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