I need help building custom leds for my reef tank, I want them to be kind of like radions with all those colors and I want it to be possible to adjust

[Jeremy Lain]

Hello,

I want to build custom lights for my reef tank, I want to make them like radions with all of those colors.

I have some of the parts already. The heat sinks, drivers, fans, and I put them in boxes for a while when I
was taking a break from those lights using different ones for a while, but now I think I am ready to try again.

When I tried again I tried to do it with less lights in smaller sections of heat sinks and I fried the lights.

So now, I would like to go over everything I need for the lights and the instructions to make custom lights, so when I purchase more led
bulbs I don't fry them.

I will post pictures of what I have so yall know what I am talking about.

I want everything to be on timers so they come on and off everyday at the same time, and I want each plug to be hooked up to a wifi outlet so I can turn them on and
off from my phone if possible.

So what I am asking is what colors do I need to make them like radions, how many of each bulb, what kind of dimmer switch do I need, and how do I find out if I am over powering them or not so I don't fry them again with the drivers or just putting a 12 volt wire to them for testing? Something went wrong but I am not sure what.

 

[Silent]

Pretty sure rapidled has pucks for sale and the round heatsinks. There are many controllers you can make and use.

 

[Jeremy Lain]

This is the colors I would like my tank to be I want to see every coral I put in there looking like this.
I have no lights right now so its just the heat sinks, but I will order the lights I need.

Right now I have 3 small heat sinks that I wanted to try to put over my 20 gallon, but I fried the lights.

This time I want to build them to work for my 20 gallon while I am getting the parts together to upgrade
to a 55 gallon tank.

When I have the 55 gallon tank setup I would like to move the lights over to that reef tank, and at more if I
need to heatsinks; so with that being said I can either add the large heat sink and a couple of other ones, or what ever is
needed to correctly light my reef tank.

I would like to hang the lights some how above my reef tank a distance needed to get the right par.

So if you can please answer my questions above.

 

[Jeremy Lain]

I will also mention, that before I did have the lights working, but I didn't really like the color that it was in my reef tank
with just the blues and whites.