48" LED Array - Up and Running...Mostly

[Ron99]

Originally Posted by donlite

Hi, I own a company Sensa-Light Ltd. We do custom lighting. The LED set up you have looks good, but it looks like you have good heat dissipation from the heat sinks. If you can hook up a "K" probe ( most cheap ohm meters will have or use one) and test the heat you may be able to forget the noisy fans.

I am using 1 watt lumileds in blue and white combination to get about 14,000k
I think I have about 30 LEDS on a 55 gallon tank. The home made unit does not need any fans. Good luck, if I can help let me know, Don

Thanks. The heatsinks are probably overkill but that's good. I will probably still run fans as they will be in an enclosed housing and I also want to put the drivers in the housing so it is all self contained. So extra cooling will be good. I plan to run the array for up to a few hours after it's all wired up and see how hot the heatsink gets.

Originally Posted by superduperwesman

NICE! Want to build me a 6' one?? ahah

Well, if you aren't in a hurry stay tuned as I have something brewing

Originally Posted by rstar

Tagging along! Keep up the good work, lookin good!

Thanks. I can't wait to see how it turns out myself