Scott26's 30 Cube
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Well I got my LED from Aquastyle and they are pretty great I have to say especially for the price. Another great thing to mention was it only took 5 days for me to get them from Hong Kong.
So here is the package I got from Fedex with all the goodies.
It came with everything I needed basically besides some addtional wire I wanted and a soldering gun. All for $136 after shipping and all.
So I started out by tinning my LEDs first before placing them on the heatsink since I had heard that if you try to tin them on the heatsink it is harder for the pad to heat up and take the solder.
First two tinned 24 to go.
So then I decided to start my placement of the LEDs I wanted to go with a cluster style since I have heard of people having issues with a sort of disco effect if it is not set up just right with the row spacing.
Here they are all on the heatsink and the two in the middle are two moonlights for night time.
Then I attached the whites in one string going in a + to - order until I reached the other end of the driver wire, and same with the blues.
Here is the semi finished product with some extra lead wire to funnel it through my light hanging rod.
I also wanted to keep my drivers and controls in a nice neat box so I got a project box from a local electronics store.
Here it is above the tank I still needed to finish up the project box and wire everything but I couldn't resist just getting it set up to see how it looked.
I used some wire loom to make the power cords look neater.
Here is the underside.
So I had to get my project box all together to make it look good and run.
One knob for white control and one for blue, I also have the moonlight driver in here.
Here are some various light pictures it is hard to get the real effect of the blues since they are so bright using my camera phone.
Max white:
Min white:
Min Blue:
Max Blue:
Full power both:
Lowest setting both.
I am really happy with this build and for the cost I don't think it can be beat. I had priced out my other options for this same build using CREE's and it would have been almost $200 more.
So here is the package I got from Fedex with all the goodies.
It came with everything I needed basically besides some addtional wire I wanted and a soldering gun. All for $136 after shipping and all.
So I started out by tinning my LEDs first before placing them on the heatsink since I had heard that if you try to tin them on the heatsink it is harder for the pad to heat up and take the solder.
First two tinned 24 to go.
So then I decided to start my placement of the LEDs I wanted to go with a cluster style since I have heard of people having issues with a sort of disco effect if it is not set up just right with the row spacing.
Here they are all on the heatsink and the two in the middle are two moonlights for night time.
Then I attached the whites in one string going in a + to - order until I reached the other end of the driver wire, and same with the blues.
Here is the semi finished product with some extra lead wire to funnel it through my light hanging rod.
I also wanted to keep my drivers and controls in a nice neat box so I got a project box from a local electronics store.
Here it is above the tank I still needed to finish up the project box and wire everything but I couldn't resist just getting it set up to see how it looked.
I used some wire loom to make the power cords look neater.
Here is the underside.
So I had to get my project box all together to make it look good and run.
One knob for white control and one for blue, I also have the moonlight driver in here.
Here are some various light pictures it is hard to get the real effect of the blues since they are so bright using my camera phone.
Max white:
Min white:
Min Blue:
Max Blue:
Full power both:
Lowest setting both.
I am really happy with this build and for the cost I don't think it can be beat. I had priced out my other options for this same build using CREE's and it would have been almost $200 more.
Well I took the fixture off to get the fan attached that I forgot about and to enclose all of the loose wires in split loom to keep it clean looking and to protect the wires.
So I painted the conduit all black and it looks much better. I started by threading an extra piece of wire through the conduit and attached it to the split loom with the wires to pull it through.
Got it all wired up neatly.
Final
So I painted the conduit all black and it looks much better. I started by threading an extra piece of wire through the conduit and attached it to the split loom with the wires to pull it through.
Got it all wired up neatly.
Final
sweet setup bro! very clean and it looks good painted black. What colors did u go with? all 10000k and Royal Blue? gurantee with that many leds u will not have disco ball..id consider not putting the optics on all LEDs. Which degree did u go with? i pulled the optics off alot of my whites becuase some of my corals were bleaching on the sand bed. and i have a 24" tank with 80 degree optics
Well I am going to make a scrubber for my 30 cube but wanted to make it a little better than my last attempt by enclosing it in an acrylic box. Here are some sketch ups of how it is going to look.
And individual sizing of the each pane I will go to my local shop and have it fabbed up I hope it isn't to much we'll see.
Bottom
Front & Back
Side W/O Emergency Overflow
Side W Emergency Overflow
Top Lip
Top Top
Top Bottom
And individual sizing of the each pane I will go to my local shop and have it fabbed up I hope it isn't to much we'll see.
Bottom
Front & Back
Side W/O Emergency Overflow
Side W Emergency Overflow
Top Lip
Top Top
Top Bottom
Very nice and simple set up. SCWD for alternate flow, only one pump. If you feed your ATS from overflow you can eliminate that feeder pump too. Either way, nice.
You built that box? That's what is keeping my new(4/5 months)set up in the garage. Figuring out ATS build. I'm not acrylic handy and quotes I've gotten were pretty crazy.
Blackout the area the lights aren't using would be nice too.
Just went back to look at sketch. You had it made. $?
You built that box? That's what is keeping my new(4/5 months)set up in the garage. Figuring out ATS build. I'm not acrylic handy and quotes I've gotten were pretty crazy.
Blackout the area the lights aren't using would be nice too.
Just went back to look at sketch. You had it made. $?
