125 Gallon LED Light Change Over

[ponokareefer]

I wanted to change over from my coralife 48" light fixture, which had 2 150W MH bulbs, and 2 96W PC bulbs to LED. After carefull consideration, I decided to go with modularled due to price, ease of construction, being very close to me, and top end LED's. My components are as follows:
2 red LED boards
2 green LED boards
6 blue LED boards
14 royal blue LED boards
6 neutral white HEW LED boards
8 cool white HEW LED boards
2 75W drivers
1 Mean-Well non-dimming driver

Here is some shots of what my current tank looks like prior to the change over:

[ponokareefer]

I have used aluminum channel to attach the LED's to from a fellow canreefer. If he would like to post on here who he is, I will leave that to his choice. I owe a big thank you to him for getting me the channel at a great price, delivered right to my door, and cut to the exact measurements I needed. Here is some pictures of the channel attached to my canopy.




I put a screw on either end of the aluminum channel into the wood to hold them in place.

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Here is a shot of the LED's, drivers and lenses attached.


Here is a shot of the white line with 2 blue boards on.

[ponokareefer]

The pictures don't do the lights justice as they are super bright. My eyes are still bugging me from looking at it.
There is a space in the centre on the bars closest to the bottom where there are no LED's. This is where my overflow is located, so no lights were needed. I didn't put any lenses on the red or green LED's as I just wanted to spread out their color. They are on a line with 2 blue LED boards that is non-dimmable.
I need 12 more extension connectors, and then this is ready to go on the tank. I wasn't sure how many extensions I was going to need, and got way too few.
The white base boards are on the canopy as I am putting a piece of acrylic that will sit on them to prevent any water from hitting the LED's and drivers.

All for the cost of less than one Radion.

[clowny]

WOW that is sick lighting for a whole tank for less then one fixture that would do half the tank. Can you do sunrise, sunset (lights start up from one side and move to the other while getting brighter throughout the day)? Thats the only feature I really want, thunderstorms would be cool but not needed. great job on a nice light fixture and reef tank

[ponokareefer]

Originally Posted by clowny

WOW that is sick lighting for a whole tank for less then one fixture that would do half the tank. Can you do sunrise, sunset (lights start up from one side and move to the other while getting brighter throughout the day)? Thats the only feature I really want, thunderstorms would be cool but not needed. great job on a nice light fixture and reef tank

I have 3 timers that I was using on for my current fixture that I will hook each line into. The blue/red/green line will come on first, followed by the blue line, followed by the white line to simulate sunrise. Sunset will work in the opposite order. I can get a controller to run this system if I want to make it fancy.

I forgot to mention, I have 4 fans that will sit on top of the channels that I had used to cool my tank due to the MH's.

[ponokareefer]

Thank you to Martin for all of your help on this. Once I get my extensions, I will post pictures of the finished product on the tank.

[ponokareefer]

]I got my extensions on Friday and here are some pictures with LED's.

Red-Green-Blue line only:



Blue line only:



White line with 2 blue's:



All 3 together:

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A few closer shots:

[Beverly]

There seems to be a lot of colour in the red-green-blue photo. Maybe it's just a fluke of that one photo. Would you mind taking a few more shots of your tank with the red-green-blue lights only to see how things look? Thanks