Well some good news.. I got a phone call from the company in the US apolagizing for the mix up and they are shipping out a replacement order tomorrow by usps. plus I am still looking at ordering a couple things from Digikey.


Steve

I have wait 2 month for a parcel ground ship from USPS they dont charge for brokerage but they are realy slow with the custom paper!

I have ordered 4 times this way Stephane and each time it was with in 10 days.. hopefully this will hold true..

Steve

Well I did some inital testing last night and took some pics..

I am using three 470nm blue LEDs for now untill I get my order from the US.

set up on bread board
http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led..._led_setup.jpg

Pic from the side
http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led...m_led_side.jpg


Pic looking down to show the brightness
http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led...nm_led_top.jpg

the next two pics didn;t realy turn out good, I will post them anyways but they look a lit darker than they realy are.. I will get better pics tonight to show what I mean

http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led...m_led_tank.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led..._led_tank1.jpg

it is hard to see in thoes two last pic but the 3 LEDs actualy did a good job of lighting up the tank and even made the corals flouress a fair amount.. so tonight I will set my white ballance and try to capture some pics that show the real look of the tank.

Steve

very cool, I'm interested in the balanced photos.... Perhaps a row of a dozen or two so across the tank would all but replace actinics and cost almost nothing to run.

Awsome!
Can't wait to see more pics. 8)

Ok, so I got the pics done tonight that show the actual look of the tank.

I also got one of a red mushroom to show how it glows under the 470nm lights.. it is fuzy but it gives you a idea. in the first two pics you can see the green glowing on the mushroom, it actualy glows pretty hard but due to the movement the close up pics I got were just totaly horable.

http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led...ank_proper.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led...nk_proper1.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/diy/led...nk_redmush.jpg

Steve its looking good. keep us posted


cheers!

Hey steve,

I picked up a Luxeon 1 watt LED at Active in Vancouver for $17.00. The thing is blinding. Their catalogs lists them for over $20. Thought you might be interested.

Hmm whare did you find it? I woulden't mind a couple.. is it a 470 blue or is it white?

Steve