Moon LED setup for under $10

Hey guys, just made a cheap moon LED setup for me nano tank. Here it is!

Firstly I found this little gem from Jaycar

Its basically sticky tape with blue surface mount LEDs on it. Runs off 12V DC, about 200mA would do the trick.

A bit of soldering required but once its done you can stick it where you want the "moon" to be and plug it in!

I put mine on the light fixture bracket, it angles down slightly and creates some areas with shadows and some lighter areas in the tank. You also get a nice ripple effect from the surface movement!


And here it is in action!



If your not comfortable with soldering and and chopping up plug packs etc then I suggest you dont try this, as you are dealing with water and mains voltage!

A strip of 3 LEDs will set you back $7 AUD. I have plug packs comming out my ears and was able to find a suitable one that had been retired.

 

The picture shows just 3 LEDs - have you got a strip of 3 on both sides or just the one side
that looks very bright on the photo- was any other lighting on ?

cool looking, well done

Steve

 

Sorry i should have explained better, you buy the LEDs in groups of 3, the picture is from the Jaycar website. The picture does look bright only because of the phone i used to take the photo. I'll try and get a better photo of it using the SLR but judging the brightness is hard

They are surface mount LEDs, about 1mm square on the tape so you can imagine they do not put out too much light. I like the way half the tank stays in shadows, gives an awsome look in real life.