Black Box Mount

Dakoda · Mar 28, 2020

I built this today off another forum member's plan - Sanjeet - it turned out pretty well. Holding up two 165W Viparspectra LED black box.

35ppt · Mar 28, 2020

Looks good! I made a similar hanger out of extruded aluminum t-slot on my first tank and it worked well. The brackets and hardware used are aluminum or stainless right? The bolts that came with the t-slot ended up rusting on mine, they were coated but not good enough apparently.

TriggerFinger · Mar 28, 2020

Looks very nice! I have the same lights and used wall mounts for a TV. Don’t think I could build something like this.

Dakoda · Mar 28, 2020

35ppt said:
Looks good! I made a similar hanger out of extruded aluminum t-slot on my first tank and it worked well. The brackets and hardware used are aluminum or stainless right? The bolts that came with the t-slot ended up rusting on mine, they were coated but not good enough apparently.

Yeah, the brackets are all zinc coated aluminum, same as all the hardware; I hope that it holds up, but only time will tell!

Dakoda · Mar 28, 2020

TriggerFinger said:
Looks very nice! I have the same lights and used wall mounts for a TV. Don’t think I could build something like this.

Thank-you! It wasn't that difficult to build, the hardest part was lining everything up square.

cvrle1 · Mar 29, 2020

Nicely done. By Sanjeet, you may mean Sandeep, as that is user name of person that came up with this idea back in 2017 on RC.

I used his idea and made something similar for my lights as well

Dakoda · Mar 29, 2020

cvrle1 said:
Nicely done. By Sanjeet, you may mean Sandeep, as that is user name of person that came up with this idea back in 2017 on RC.

I used his idea and made something similar for my lights as well

I like what you've built there, and yes, that is what I meant. Wrote down the wrong name, my bad.