I Need LED DIY Help

[gilly]

I've been looking at retro fitting LEDs as the main lighting for a tank. I was going to use the same LEDs as the Solaris systems but I can't figure out which specific LEDs are used. I know they are Philips K2s or Rebels but which color do they use? I can't find info on the spectrum and I'm not sure I could decode it if I did find it. Does anyone have experiance with this? Is it difficult to setup?

 

[gilly]

 

[sly]

Do you know which spectrum LEDs are available? Any particular reason you are wanting LEDs? From what I've read you get more lumens per watt with t5 fluorescent bulbs and they cost much less.

 

[gilly]

The spectrum info is here. I want to use Led becase I beleive in the long run they can be quite a bit cheaper considering they can last over 10 years.

 

[wattsupdoc]

I'm not 100% positive, but I'd say look at table 10. It shows emiters in the YO bin to be what they are considering the clossest to 10,000k.Note that they list the average as 8,000k. So order from that bin. Now for actinic, table 15 bin 1.