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Tylers Tank Build
Going kind of fancy for my fixture
its going to be 24" x 18", and lit up by 64x3w leds in clusters of 4 on 4 channels powered by ldd drivers controlled by my apex and 4x 24" t5 HO The controller part of the setup is completed and the leds are all soldered onto the pcb boards, all i have left to do is far as the leds goes is buy or build a heatsink as for the t5's, ive ordered sockets but i still havent decided on ballasts, im thinking i want to run 2x 2bulb ballasts so i can run 2 or 4 t5's at a time so thats all the easy stuff The fun begins now with building the housing so far ive only gotten as far as drawing the housing on cad, im going with steel housing that will be painted white (i was thinking polished stainless but its a pita to form with a small brake) heres the fixture so far http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...pscba39815.jpg there will be 4x small fans blowing in from the ends and 2 vents at the top, the whole center section will be 1 large heat sink and the sides will have reflectors for the t5's made out of stainless steel |
Interesting! Looking forward to the progression on this fixture build. I wish I had a brake press :0(
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I just bought a cheap 24" from kms just to build this light |
Well, I broke the brake.... Doing what the manual said it can handle.... So now I'll have to send it out to my buddies shop for forming
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Really looking forward to how the light turns out!
What size tank did you go with, sorry if I missed it somewhere. |
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Very nice!
I also currently have a tank being built that is very close to your dimensions. 36 x 24 x 18H rimless with external c2c overflow on the Left side pane. Tank and sump should be finished at the end of the week/early next week. That stand looks interesting will the tank be centered on it or off to one side? |
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I've got the same tank built with 3/8 glass. Actually needing some help with drilling/external overflow. Maybe u can help me spit.fire or trevor
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Tank on the right side, my terrarium goes on the left
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so just so everyone knows the stand will likely never get finished, ill put the top bottom and right sheet of plywood on, set up the tank, and procrastinate on doing the rest forever
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Got my tank today. Now all I need is to build my stand...
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Looking good man, keep the pics and updates coming. |
Made some design changes to the stand. Went taller and longer because of how shallow my tank is
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/25/azu7eqan.jpg |
What would you charge for knocking up a metal stand like that? Say with the dimensions of 30x30x36?
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Laminated to top, wife's tank is ready for plumbing after a bit of sump modification Sump is holding a few corals and a fish until the tanks are ready http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/31/yga7ute9.jpg Sophia checkin out the sump |
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Tagging along i guess....
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Plumbed the wife's tank and she aquascaped it
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/09/01/une8ume2.jpg My tank is almost ready to go on the stand No water going from tank to sump yet as I need to remove all the corals from the sump to a random tank and sterilize the sump Hopefully tomorrow I'll have my media reactors up and running as I'm not using liverock to cycle, just zeobak as I have a fear of bryopsis and bubble algae |
Tanks full and skimmer is hooked up, now it sits until next weekend when I plumb my tank
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Got lazy, bought a brand new light, started modifying it...
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Thats a cool idea
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Ya it was cheaper to buy a whole fixture than it was to buy ballasts
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Quick video of drilling glass
http://youtu.be/gl4k9g6INRs http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/09/15/ave5eve6.jpg |
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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/10/06/a7y2umym.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/10/06/8ehavete.jpg
More progress on the light |
looks good man
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Spent a good chunk of my weekend drilling and tapping holes and breaking taps....
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Sweet light Tyler. Excited to see how it works.
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I used wd40, they were breaking because of the fins on the heatsinks |
Got some new corals
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...986bf16f72.jpg Anything Albert says is a lie |
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T5's all mounted and wired, leds mounted but not wired (misplaced a driver) http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...8ac51f993c.jpg
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Hybrid hung, might just put non dimmable drivers in it
Only 1 channel on in pic and old t5 bulbs http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...a1a8b74d0e.jpg http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...f40eead2c5.jpg |
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