MY DIY christmas LED lighting, project

[Muni]

Just a plain old white spray paint. gloss of course, would give you a decent relectivity. Cheap too.

Or you could try the Chrome or silver paint. less cheap but easy and would have 80ish % refection I think?

 

[ITHURTZ]

My lights came, so in the end I had 100 blue, and 500 white leds. To say the least I am disappointed and led lights for the 330gal project is a FAILURE.

It sucks because the lights look SOOOO cool, and give off this nice "soft" color. I beleive I would need 2,000 leds for the entire tank. And running 20 led strings is something I do NOT want to do. And I dunno if its correct but at 7watts per string, thats 140watts vs the 128 I run now.

Heres the pics anyway

Shop light on the left, 600led right

Just led's

Closer view of LED's

NOW I decided to test out the spiral bulbs. This test is with ONE 26watt spiral

Shop light on left, spiral on right

Just spiral

How I put it on haha

So I am saddened that one improperly mounted spiral completely blew out my 600leds in terms of brightness. In that sense I could just run 3 13 watt spirals get the same effect I have now and use 39watts instead of 128.

But iv been checking out those led flood light bulbs that say I can draw 5 watts and get the lighting effect of a 40watt bulb, so I "could" go that way and run 3 and have 15watts total draw. But if that idea failed id flip a lid.....

 

[JakeH]

There's really no such thing as an LED "flood light", despite the seller's claim. Its just a bunch of LED's facing different directions. It may work for you, though...

 

[mamapuff]

I ended up taking an old lightstrip that didn't work, stripped out the wires and backing, and hot glued blue LED's (icicle) around the perimeter of the light strip. It is only 140 lights, but they make the tank look great at night, giving off the moon feel. I noticed the fish like to come out and eat more now.