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WOOOOOT just got done tapping all of the holes . Now Corey what is the best way for getting all the oil off of the heatsinks or should I even worry about it? I ended up breaking 1 tap on the first hole and then doing the rest of the 388 with one tap and it seems to have some life left in it...

I saw that too and am glad to know that. The bad part is i still have 3/4 of one of the heatsinks left to tap so I gotta work on it more today so I will be ready for the order.

Im gonna use stainless steel bolts and nylon washers/spacers on mine

So I just orderd all the lights and the ELNs from Rapidled.com.........WOW they are very helpful. Make sure if you are ordering a large order to e-mail them before you buy because i sent him an email and they gave me a code for 10% off the order total....... When the total is 1000 bucks its...

Nice frame!

ok so I will go 80 on mine too because I have a canopy that will stop the light also. do I need optics on the neutrals and blues or should i run them without?

Ok so I updated the OP to show what I have orderd and what I still need. Gonna order my lights tonight or tomorrow. So before I order them I was planning on hanging both of the lights about 13-14 inches above the tank so the big question is what angle optics am I gonna want at that height...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x Right now, there is nothing in my tank but live rock, and as of now it has no yellowing color. I think i'm going to go with 6 cools and 6 nuetrals, I can always change them later if I don't like them I guess. I talked to my fiance and shes really urging...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x I was told to split the whites so you don't get a washed out look from all the cool whites, you need enough neutrals to help add in some red to your spectrum. Ah see im adding a string on a separate driver that has reds and greens so on my build I wont...

So you will probably want atleast a 2:1 on the amount of blues to whites also.

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills A photon is a photon. Photosynthetic organisms dont care where they get thier light from as long as they get it in the spectrums that they need. If having coraline is important to you then figure out what range of...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x I was planning on splitting the whites in half with cool/neutral, I have heard that coraline algae doesn't grow to well under leds, true or false? Anyone have any experience with that? I was really set on these leds, I just want to be 100% sure before I...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x I have looked on various threads on reef central debating the pros and cons of them. I think most of the people against them were ones that had experience with only the blue/coolwhite combo, but i'm not sure. I would just really hate to spend $500 on...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills Yeah you might want to wait then, or keep reading. The only people i still hear saying things like that are the ones still running the classic cool white and royal blue combo. Perhaps some other folks here who are running leds will chime in. Youre not...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x Quote: Originally Posted by Cipher43 You can control 4 separate channels. In other words you can have multiple drivers on each channel so you can have your blues on one, whites on another, moonlights, and another channel for other colors or running...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x I like the typhon controller, good price, and it seems like it can do everything I want and more. By what I read it can controller 4 separate drivers, so I could set it to turn my moonlights on at a certain brightness, then turn them off and go into a...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x Instead of putting an external dimmer switch in, I'm going to put a DDC-01 PWM Controller on. I will adjust the led string brightness from each driver until I have them at the ratio I like. The controller is really...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills Wow, you're moving quick! I had to spread mine out over the course of a weekend. It took me about a dozen holes or so and then I started getting into the zone with it and found a good rhythm. But once I got going I had it down to pretty much the same time...

Drilling all the holes I did , which there is a total of 388 (226 for my 120 gallon and 162 for the 75 gallon), It only took me 2 hours to do that. Now if you do the taping on that i have it figured up to be an extra 19.4 hours for my job I must say that this total is for 2 complete builds...

If you get that controller make sure and get the 60-48P drivers and not the D drivers.