LED group buy?

[Milad]

Anyone interested in an LED group buy? im about to buy 130+ LEDs. I can probably get them somewhere around $3-$4 an LED if others want in.

CREE 3w Royal Blue XR-E
CREE 3w Cool White XP-G

[ScubaSteve]

Where you getting them from? I'm interested in a couple as I want to make some blue LED "spot lights" to highlight a couple colonies at night.

[Milad]

im ordering form a CREE supplier in Cali,
these are really powerful lights so im not sure if i would use them as "moonlights" way to powerful for that.

[JonT]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Where you getting them from? I'm interested in a couple as I want to make some blue LED "spot lights" to highlight a couple colonies at night.

+1 to that.

PM me the details as you put your plan together. I would be looking for about 6-8 and whatever is needed to make it a "wide" spread.

[ferret]

Hi Milad

Do the supplier you mentioned carries the XP-E royal blue ( color bin - D5 )instead of XR-E

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by Milad

im ordering from EGT
these are really powerful lights so im not sure if i would use them as "moonlights" way to powerful for that.

Nope, not using them as moonlights per se. I want to experiment with a different lighting concept... something that isn't actinic and not moonlights. I have my tank design really to be super glowy at night time as that is the only time I ever really get to spent with it. I want to spotlight a couple of the really showy and glowy colonies for a couple of hours after actinics but before moonlights. I'll have a dimmer for them to gradually decrease to from high to off over those hours.

[ScubaSteve]

By the way, do they have a website?

edit: NM, I found it. http://www.etgtech.com/2006/html/xlamp.htm

[untamed]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Nope, not using them as moonlights per se. I want to experiment with a different lighting concept... something that isn't actinic and not moonlights. I have my tank design really to be super glowy at night time as that is the only time I ever really get to spent with it. I want to spotlight a couple of the really showy and glowy colonies for a couple of hours after actinics but before moonlights. I'll have a dimmer for them to gradually decrease to from high to off over those hours.

That's a very cool idea. Just a few hours of special show...Get more colours, though. You would want to like the greens with green light...reds with red light..etc.

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by untamed

That's a very cool idea. Just a few hours of special show...Get more colours, though. You would want to like the greens with green light...reds with red light..etc.

Sweet! Someone gets it! Everyone looks at me like I'm nuts when I tell them this. I'm going to start with the blue as most of my stuff fluoresces like mad under those lights. Then I'm going to start experimenting with different colours with narrow optics to really spotlight certain colonies. I think 1W LEDs will suffice for those.

[sick lid]

I would be interested as well