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Bblinks 03-30-2012 11:12 PM

Holy heat sink Martin, can't wait to see that beast up and running. BTW I am loving the cabinetry work. Keep those pictures coming.

ensquire 03-31-2012 12:14 AM

Cabinet
 
Awesome job on the cabinet, some real skills there.

martinmcnally 05-08-2012 06:00 AM

Today I made some progress with the hood and the LED build. First I had The Grizz weld together my heatsinks into one sturdy unit with 1 inch spacing between.

http://applications.ccusa.com/martin...k/IMG_1516.jpg

Some coke zero for size reference. The strips along the top are to hold the pocket door wheels that I am installing.

http://applications.ccusa.com/martin...k/IMG_1517.jpg

Heatsinks installed into the hood frame using pocket door kit:

http://applications.ccusa.com/martin...k/IMG_1518.jpg
http://applications.ccusa.com/martin...k/IMG_1519.jpg

I am using this pocket door kit so that I can slide the whole light backwards for access into the tank when needed and slide the whole system out for maintenance.

Finally starting to sheet the hood. Back will be sheeted and the sides will be flaps that open upwards.

http://applications.ccusa.com/martin...k/IMG_1520.jpg

fishytime 05-08-2012 01:24 PM

holy crap Martin.....I think the price of aluminum just went up:mrgreen::razz:.....looking really good tho mang

Nano 05-08-2012 01:47 PM

are you building a space ship? :wink:
those will be some bad ass LEDs

ashr 05-10-2012 08:14 PM

Your going to love cleaning all the sand creep from those little squares on your stand haha

ashr 05-10-2012 08:16 PM

Looks great though :)

martinmcnally 05-10-2012 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashr (Post 715453)
Your going to love cleaning all the sand creep from those little squares on your stand haha

Haha oh boy. Well the Euro Bracing on the tank actually seems to be keeping it in check pretty good. Hopefully it wont be too much of a problem.

Bblinks 05-10-2012 08:46 PM

Wow Martin that is bad a$$. Can't wait to see more progress.

martinmcnally 09-06-2012 10:23 PM

Finally making some headway with my LED build. You would think I would be on that haha.

http://application.ccusa.com/martin/img_1736.jpg

Each square of LEDs contains 2x Blue, 2x Royal Blue then either 4x Cool White or 2x Cool White & 2x Neutral White.

With this setup there is 24/13 ratio blue to whites so just a little higher than 2/1.

The blank area left is for the overflow.

No Reds or Greens yet. I will add those later once i get this up and running.


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