Taking the Rapid Plunge! (Light mounted with FTS!)

Test Run

Well I got everything soldered up and wired this evening. Excuse the pics, they are crappy phone pics and they are kinda random. Anyways, I havent had the leds up past 50% yet and they are ridiculously bright. I still need to glue the optics on and set the current on the drivers.


12 Royal Blues on Driver 1




12 Cool Whites on Driver 2 (25%)




6 Royal Blues & 6 Neutral Whites on Driver 3



All Channels On



Drivers and Typhoon Controller

 

Dude looking great so far..how will you cover up the controller/drivers to look nice and clean..acrylic housing?..I like the led layout so far..

 

Insane,everything is looking great. I hope mine turns out half as good as that and I'll be happy.Last 12 LEDS should be in this week. I'll be watching for updates!

 

Thanks. I'm sure yours will turn out good, I'm thinking about adding 2 cool whites to the cool white circuit, but I think the 36 kit is going to be plenty for a 65g.

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amazing work, i really like that placement of the bulbs. How is the typhoon controller working out?

 

Congrats on the huge progress! Put it over the tank already! Youd like WW, huh? Im gonna have to re-plan the LED color mixture after I read about the first impression of the NWs..
(BTW, my LED rebuild is gonna be put off because Im getting iPhone 4S..)

 

Typhoon works pretty good. I haven't really messed with the auto timer and ramping yet, just been using it in manual mode. It can only do all 4 channels at the same intensity instead of letting me manually set each channel independently, which is kinda a bumer. Mite have to rewrite some code.

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Ahh come on, an apple product? Do yourself a favor and get an android phone But anyways, I haven't got the light over the tank and messed with it yet, but I feel like the NWs aren't warm enough. I wish I would've went with warm whites, or maybe went with 9nw and 9cw. Either way it still looks very nice the way it is, can't wait to get it over the tank.

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I might just add 12 WW and two kinds of 12 UVs (6 420nm and 6 395-405nm) to the existing 12 CW and 12 RB.

What are you talking about? Apple for life! (Ive been using the first gen DROID for 2 years.)

 

I had a first gen droid and it was awesome. Didn't like the droid 2, got the droid 3 and LOVE it. 5 row keyboard.

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