The $110 LED Upgrade for my 150!
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yes but Arrytfish only unleashed these to the pirranha community, you let the rest of us know about them. Thaks to both of you. The daylight 10w's I received I loved the color but the 30w's are too cool. I don't have any lids' on the tank right know so I'm going to play with the glass and see if I can adjust the color a bit. I have some old thick walled 55's that I cut up for lids on my 180 and noticed the light was shinning through a bit yellower. I'm going to give those a try. If anyone has any ideas...jcardona1;4955465; said:Sweet! Glad to see more folks jumping on the LED bandwagon. But I gotta give the credit to Arttyfish, I found out about these lights from him.
I actually received the cool whites and didn't like it, seems to wash out the colors of my fish, so I left the warm white on my tank. Looks more natural to me, girlfriend said the same thing.
I'm actually working on a DIY fixture using Cree LEDs for my 190g. I'll be using a mixture of neutral white and warm white LEDs, cool whites aren't my cup of tea
I was thinking the same thing! great minds think alike!Danger_Chicken;4955452; said:I've found a 24" deep tank needs one 10w every foot, but like you said it's personal taste. The nice thing is if two isn't enough you can always get more.
With two, If you can mount them 4-5" above the tank you should get a nice even spread without the dark areas at the top.
Joeygee - it's scary how much our tanks are aquascaped a like. I'd never seen you tank and just redid mine over the past two weeks. This is a 30" deep 220 with three 30w's
I was thinking of replacing glass tops with acrylic. Anyone have experience with these? Obviously they let mor light through...but will they bow out?
In my experience acrylic lids always bow over time. You'd need really really thick acrylic to avoid that, which would cost some nice cash!Joeygee23;4955582;4955582 said:
How about using some clear plastic as a color filter? Like food wrapping, or gift wrapping, like for wrapping gift baskets? I know those come in different colors. Maybe experimenting with a few colors would give you the result you like.Danger_Chicken;4955494;4955494 said:
Me personally, I love warmer lighting on freshwater tanks. The white/blue/purple lights just don't do it for me anymore. I really like the look of this tank. My LED fixture will be similar to this. He's using warm whites, white just 2 cool white LEDs
It gives the fish a real natural look. My fixture will have each color controlled separately, so I could brighten or dim each color channel to get the look I want.
My 10w's look exactly like that and I love it. Is it the chip or the driver that determines color?jcardona1;4955688; said:How about using some clear plastic as a color filter? Like food wrapping, or gift wrapping, like for wrapping gift baskets? I know those come in different colors. Maybe experimenting with a few colors would give you the result you like.
Me personally, I love warmer lighting on freshwater tanks. The white/blue/purple lights just don't do it for me anymore. I really like the look of this tank. My LED fixture will be similar to this. He's using warm whites, white just 2 cool white LEDs
It gives the fish a real natural look. My fixture will have each color controlled separately, so I could brighten or dim each color channel to get the look I want.
I used three on a 125 and got great coverage, so if you want dark edges two will work. I'll post a pic later.aclockworkorange;4955751; said:
For the DIY version, it's the LED that determines the color. I'll have them on separate channels, which means I could dim each color individually. I could dim the warm whites and crank up the neutral whites, and vice versa to give me the color mixture I like. I'm sure these microcontrollers are capable of a lot more as far as color tuning, but I have no idea on that part!Danger_Chicken;4955908;4955908 said:
Mine will be pretty simple; 4 channels, 6 LEDs per channel, all hooked up to a microcontroller with sunrise to sunset lighting (the lights will slowly fade on and off throughtout the day
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Here's an example of the code that will be uploaded to the Arduino controller. You have a lot of flexiblity with the lighting when you go with a microcontroller!
