LED DIY with photos

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

While waiting for a couple fans and a heat sink here are couple photos of the 80% finished array

Here is what I am placing as lens on each LED as I had some laying around from a prior DIY with some phylips LED and must say these lens fit perfect.


All lens are on tight,last night I cut and bent an acrilic sheet for a cover I must say it turned out a perfect shield




and now its wired and ready



Plug is going into the wall and voila





Man its bright too bad the camera doesn't do it any justice.

[Stones]

Nice LED build. I imagine you were seeing spots after testing out the fixture.

[reefme]

Nice! One question, how do you get air evenly into here?

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

Originally Posted by reefme

Nice! One question, how do you get air evenly into here?

Because its a small array and not running at full blast,room temperature keep it cool with no added fans.
Although because I have 22 led and max at 700 ma it I was to run it at full shouldn' t br a problem in my case as it sits near 2 other arrays with high power fans to keep it cool.

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

In the next couple weeks I will have another build for my 220glns and another for the frag tank.Using similar design as above but their own fans

[reefme]

After looking at your array and Greg's DIY. I don't know which one should I go with.

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

These are 2 different arrays.mine is simply an addition to what I already have as for his is the main lighting for his tank.
If you are planning for an array over your tank as the main with good amount of LEDs I recomend having fans.the type of fans depends on how you pack the areay with the LEDs.