Well after setting up the new red sea tank a couple months ago I keep getting some crap from my wife with the lighting situation. We just built a new house which has a very modern look and apparently, I screwed up because "the lights I choose look terrible"......
now I can't complain and say Shes wrong...... Ecotech's hanging solutions are not the best and the lighting kit that actually sits on the aquarium has the worst engineering. I have many complaints about the kit, but my number one complaint is the dang things bows pretty bad in the middle from the weight.
picture from this morning
So then I was told "you're and engineer can you not figure out a better way to hang the lights?"
two beers and a few hours later I found a better way to hang the lights.
So here is my design for the assembly. It's going to be machined from billet aluminum and attach to a consolidated canopy. It will give a very modern feel and the anchor arms are like 1" thick aluminum by 4" so it would be able to hold my entire family lol. The fact that it's so strong I can put the arms super close together and walking from all angles except directly 90 degrees it will still appear as its floating and the wire holes in the plate will run between the arms hiding those also.
I plan on getting one of those HDMI wall kits at Lowes and putting it behind the plate and fishing (no pun intended) the wires down the wall
I am going to update this all week to show the machining process and the instillation.
CHEERS!
now I can't complain and say Shes wrong...... Ecotech's hanging solutions are not the best and the lighting kit that actually sits on the aquarium has the worst engineering. I have many complaints about the kit, but my number one complaint is the dang things bows pretty bad in the middle from the weight.
picture from this morning
So then I was told "you're and engineer can you not figure out a better way to hang the lights?"
two beers and a few hours later I found a better way to hang the lights.
So here is my design for the assembly. It's going to be machined from billet aluminum and attach to a consolidated canopy. It will give a very modern feel and the anchor arms are like 1" thick aluminum by 4" so it would be able to hold my entire family lol. The fact that it's so strong I can put the arms super close together and walking from all angles except directly 90 degrees it will still appear as its floating and the wire holes in the plate will run between the arms hiding those also.
I plan on getting one of those HDMI wall kits at Lowes and putting it behind the plate and fishing (no pun intended) the wires down the wall
I am going to update this all week to show the machining process and the instillation.
CHEERS!