Scott26's 30 Rimless Cube

Thanks, going simple this time.

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My DIY dimmable LED kit is on it way from Aquastyle. It is a China cheaper version but from what I have read they are capable of everything I need them to do. It will be a 24 LED kit 12 Blue, 12 White, on a 7"x12" black heatsink.

 

Nice! Looking forward to the LED build as well!

 

nice build! following

 

Looks like it is going to be an awesome build. What are your plans for this tank?

 

Should be pretty fun to DIY LED.

Nice to have you along.

Mixed reef, a few fish like; a pair of clowns, and a six line wrasse, and a goby.

 

Well I got my LED from Aquastyle and they are pretty great I have to say especially for the price. Another great thing to mention was it only took 5 days for me to get them from Hong Kong.

So here is the package I got from Fedex with all the goodies.







It came with everything I needed basically besides some addtional wire I wanted and a soldering gun. All for $136 after shipping and all.

So I started out by tinning my LEDs first before placing them on the heatsink since I had heard that if you try to tin them on the heatsink it is harder for the pad to heat up and take the solder.



First two tinned 24 to go.



So then I decided to start my placement of the LEDs I wanted to go with a cluster style since I have heard of people having issues with a sort of disco effect if it is not set up just right with the row spacing.



Here they are all on the heatsink and the two in the middle are two moonlights for night time.





Then I attached the whites in one string going in a + to - order until I reached the other end of the driver wire, and same with the blues.

Here is the semi finished product with some extra lead wire to funnel it through my light hanging rod.



I also wanted to keep my drivers and controls in a nice neat box so I got a project box from a local electronics store.

Here it is above the tank I still needed to finish up the project box and wire everything but I couldn't resist just getting it set up to see how it looked.



I used some wire loom to make the power cords look neater.



Here is the underside.





So I had to get my project box all together to make it look good and run.



One knob for white control and one for blue, I also have the moonlight driver in here.



Here are some various light pictures it is hard to get the real effect of the blues since they are so bright using my camera phone.


Max white:


Min white:


Min Blue:


Max Blue:


Full power both:


Lowest setting both.


I am really happy with this build and for the cost I don't think it can be beat. I had priced out my other options for this same build using CREE's and it would have been almost $200 more.

 

Looks good bud

 

Look at that black heatsink.. so sexy..

Great execution, cant wait till it gets wet!!