320g build/journey/experiment DIY :-)

bauder1986 · #1 07-09-2010, 03:11 PM

Intense build here dude! Tagging along for sure!

Greenmaster · #2 07-10-2010, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bauder1986

Intense build here dude! Tagging along for sure!

Welcome aboard :-)

So this is the start of the heatsink... I still need to buy the thermal paste so I can attach the copper but this is what it looks like ATM.

Aluminum slab is 5'x2'x3/8"
Groves cut with a router 5/8" rounded bit... (went through 3 of them) cut about 3/16" deep
1/2" copper pipe

bauder1986 · #3 07-10-2010, 03:39 AM

Dude! Holly crap! Like wow! Thats gonna be a big lighting system! Yah and you say im ahead you in my build??? I beg to deffer! Watching eagerly.

Greenmaster · #4 07-10-2010, 04:23 AM

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Dude! Holly crap! Like wow! Thats gonna be a big lighting system! Yah and you say im ahead you in my build??? I beg to deffer! Watching eagerly.

You have your lights and most of your equipment (my LED's are at least 3-4 weeks away plus I have to wire them... I expect that to take 2 weeks)... your tank is on the stand (I still need to put some of my rock in first... finish my stand... Drill 2 more holes in my tank... convince 4 people that they want to help me slide my tank onto the stand and hope the jacks don't kick out)... I will have fish in September when are you planning on having your first fish?
My "lighting system" is only 5'x2' there are lots of pendents that are 6' or 8'.

lastlight · #5 07-10-2010, 04:28 AM

Ok that is one hardcore heatsink! Are you plumbing water into the copper piping to draw heat out?

Tagging along. Your daughter is hilarious btw. They don't speed the process up but it's a lot of fun to see them get into it.

Greenmaster · #6 07-10-2010, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Ok that is one hardcore heatsink! Are you plumbing water into the copper piping to draw heat out?

Tagging along. Your daughter is hilarious btw. They don't speed the process up but it's a lot of fun to see them get into it.

Yes once I get my thermal compound I will be cutting the copper pipe to the proper size and attaching it to the aluminum plate. Plumbing water to run underground to dissipate the heat. The pump will be under the house so there will be no noise from the pump and best of all most of the time there will be no noisy fans blowing... (on hot days I may have a fan set up to help with cooling the tank... I may just install a solenoid to have the water cool off the sump.)

bauder1986 · #7 07-10-2010, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Greenmaster

You have your lights and most of your equipment (my LED's are at least 3-4 weeks away plus I have to wire them... I expect that to take 2 weeks)... your tank is on the stand (I still need to put some of my rock in first... finish my stand... Drill 2 more holes in my tank... convince 4 people that they want to help me slide my tank onto the stand and hope the jacks don't kick out)... I will have fish in September when are you planning on having your first fish?
My "lighting system" is only 5'x2' there are lots of pendents that are 6' or 8'.

Oh you misunderstood my thread! That is my planning list for my tank. I have none of that yet. I have a sump on hold for me though but the equipment is still on my want list

But yah, my tank is on the stand though

. I do want my tank running by August though at the latest with its first fish.

Greenmaster · #8 07-10-2010, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by bauder1986

Oh you misunderstood my thread! That is my planning list for my tank. I have none of that yet. I have a sump on hold for me though but the equipment is still on my want list

But yah, my tank is on the stand though

LOL okay... but when do you "plan" on having fish?

bauder1986 · #9 07-10-2010, 04:38 AM

By the end of august hopefully, probably sept like yourself.