Martin's 180g Reef Build

[Bblinks]

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]

Awesome job on the cabinet, some real skills there.

[martinmcnally]

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.



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



Heatsinks installed into the hood frame using pocket door kit:




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.

[fishytime]

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

[Nano]

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

[ashr]

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

[ashr]

Looks great though

[martinmcnally]

Originally Posted by ashr

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]

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

[martinmcnally]

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



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.