king_neptune
Active Member
Ordered my parts a few hours ago, but I'm so excited I decided to make a build thread early!
This will be a culmination of input from half dozen fellow reefers, so if anything looks familiar, it probably came from someone you've seen. Course by now, a majority of these builds look similar anyways. Ill see if I can make a 3d model later to wet some appetites.
My system:
72" 125g DT SPS dominated. So Ill need potent lighting to manage everything.
I want maximum flexibility in this rig, as such I will have it divided into 4 ten inch panels.
Each consisting of 24 bulbs, 12w/12b.
Each panel will have 2 Mean Well Drivers, 12 LED's each driver.
Each driver will have a POT controlling it.
The idea will be to control an entire section of the tank separately from the rest. Say I have corals on one end that are in need of low light, I can dim the far end to fit these needs. But now imagine I have corals in the middle that need intense light, I can shoot the power to the middle sections to compensate these needs.This flexibility will also allow me to choose color schemes that will really cause the corals to pop out!
I already have plans for "The dark side" of the tank, it will be like looking at a separate eco system. Id like to even have some under water plants that can take root in the sand. Who knows, well see where this takes me!
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I already ordered a 48 LED kit. It contains:
4 mean well ELN-60-48D dimmable drivers.
24 Royal Blue Cree XR-E LEDs
24 Cool White Cree Q5 XR-E LEDs
thermal compound, cables, wiring and a custom mix of Lenses all for $525.
I chose
12x80 degree optics
12x40 degree optics
24x60 degree optics.
I mainly wanted the row closest to the foam wall to have the widest spread so I could get good light all the way down it, the middle to have the narrowest beam so I could focus on corals near the bottom, and the two rows closest to the viewer to have the middle ground optic's(the 60's).
This will help blend in any gaps between the other two optic patterns(since they were pretty well separated).
Since the viewer is primarily viewing the tank from a lengthwise angle, the human eye shouldn't detect varying beams of intensity.If this doesn't work like I intend, I can remove/add optics as needed.
I also ordered my shrink tubing(got some glow in the dark as well to play with).
Two power supply's, one for the diming box, one for the fans.
The heat-sinks are 8.48x10" each. So fitting 4 with a 6" gap between will be the most likely scenario. I have it in my head, just not on paper. I picked up some L brackets from home depot so I can make a frame as soon as I get the Heat sinks in the mail.
This will be a culmination of input from half dozen fellow reefers, so if anything looks familiar, it probably came from someone you've seen. Course by now, a majority of these builds look similar anyways. Ill see if I can make a 3d model later to wet some appetites.
My system:
72" 125g DT SPS dominated. So Ill need potent lighting to manage everything.
I want maximum flexibility in this rig, as such I will have it divided into 4 ten inch panels.
Each consisting of 24 bulbs, 12w/12b.
Each panel will have 2 Mean Well Drivers, 12 LED's each driver.
Each driver will have a POT controlling it.
The idea will be to control an entire section of the tank separately from the rest. Say I have corals on one end that are in need of low light, I can dim the far end to fit these needs. But now imagine I have corals in the middle that need intense light, I can shoot the power to the middle sections to compensate these needs.This flexibility will also allow me to choose color schemes that will really cause the corals to pop out!
I already have plans for "The dark side" of the tank, it will be like looking at a separate eco system. Id like to even have some under water plants that can take root in the sand. Who knows, well see where this takes me!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I already ordered a 48 LED kit. It contains:
4 mean well ELN-60-48D dimmable drivers.
24 Royal Blue Cree XR-E LEDs
24 Cool White Cree Q5 XR-E LEDs
thermal compound, cables, wiring and a custom mix of Lenses all for $525.
I chose
12x80 degree optics
12x40 degree optics
24x60 degree optics.
I mainly wanted the row closest to the foam wall to have the widest spread so I could get good light all the way down it, the middle to have the narrowest beam so I could focus on corals near the bottom, and the two rows closest to the viewer to have the middle ground optic's(the 60's).
This will help blend in any gaps between the other two optic patterns(since they were pretty well separated).
Since the viewer is primarily viewing the tank from a lengthwise angle, the human eye shouldn't detect varying beams of intensity.If this doesn't work like I intend, I can remove/add optics as needed.
I also ordered my shrink tubing(got some glow in the dark as well to play with).
Two power supply's, one for the diming box, one for the fans.
The heat-sinks are 8.48x10" each. So fitting 4 with a 6" gap between will be the most likely scenario. I have it in my head, just not on paper. I picked up some L brackets from home depot so I can make a frame as soon as I get the Heat sinks in the mail.
