Actually I was looking at hero-led.com and they had a 100 watt driver and Complimentary white bulbs. If you did that got a good heat sink and supplemented with like 3 blue rails and one of each red and green that light make a good spot for a nano. Than you won't have to limit yourself on your photosynthetic animals. I think the grand total in wattage at least would go up to 250 ish so you could run at half power, get amazing shimmer, and have happy clams. Everyone knows happyclams make a happy aquarist lol.
I could swear fleshy or nonstophoops where discussing an led build. The bad thing about this lighting is the uncharted territory. That and the nonuniforminarianism of our illustrious hobby. What works for one might crash another. I really want to incorporate LEDs into my 75 gallon build (which should be up in the next couple of weeks.) but I don't want to have a million 3 wattbulbs that will punch the first 5" with par and starve the rest. That's why I brought up the high wattage option because that will punch and the others can supplement spectrum. In theory at least...
http://www.hero-ledstore.com/
I don't have any feed back for the customer service here but hey have a boatload of stuff for diy LEDs.
Yes the AIs arent full spectrum like Ecotech Radion. But they are much cheaper and if you look at the spectrum spread from the radion wavelengths longer than 550nm are pretty low. I do think full spectrum are important but I run AIs and I build/setup custom reef tanks for many clients and most have used AIs with great feedback all around. DIY are great for the fact that you can custom build them the way you want but I RARELY meet anyone who is happy with them long term. To actually save money on them you lose much of what makes a professional products great in the long term and thats low maintenance. Just my .02
Over the ai sol yes but I have heard questions regarding the spectrum output and over emphasis on pur over a broad spectrum which has had negative results in some reef tanks. But this hobby is very disestablishmentarian.
Yes the AIs arent full spectrum like Ecotech Radion. But they are much cheaper and if you look at the spectrum spread from the radion wavelengths longer than 550nm are pretty low. I do think full spectrum are important but I run AIs and I build/setup custom reef tanks for many clients and most have used AIs with great feedback all around. DIY are great for the fact that you can custom build them the way you want but I RARELY meet anyone who is happy with them long term. Just my .02
I agree 100%, bang for the buck the AI Sol is a steal. Would I rather have the radion? Of course, if I had a few grand to drop into lights. The only know two people who have done DIY LED's, both of them scrapped their projects and bought a professional setup.
To actually save money on them you lose much of what makes a professional products great in the long term and thats low maintenance
