Ifarmer's DIY LED project

ifarmer · Oct 9, 2013

Although I went back to using T5 2 years ago but here is the DIY LED project that I did about 2 years ago, so just wanted to share the works that I did with every body.

I have not tried this light on a 4 ft tank but it was capable of growing sps on a 3ft tank at 65% intensity

Thanks for looking

All LED parts were bought from RAPIDLED, Resistors, Fuses & misc were from Radio Shack

4 CREE Blue LEDs
16 CREE Royal Blue LEDS
12 CREE Cool White LEDs
2 CREE RED
2 CREE Green

2 Mean Well ELN-60-48D dimmable driver (using just two drivers because the wiring was done in parallel as oppose to serial)

2 ft heat sink with 36 drilled & tapped

These cheap Radio Shack quick disconnectors were later get replaced with the Anderson Powerpoles quick disconnectors

Fuses for protection

Anderson Powerpoles quick disconnectors

35g mixed reef

57g mixed reef

cdness · Oct 9, 2013

Looks nice. I like the color.

You must be a tech person too. I like the recycled Cisco rack brackets

ifarmer · Oct 9, 2013

No I was not a tech person... I did not even have a clue on how LED work and how to do even the soldering.

Did most of the learning from online and from a friend at work.

Mike at RapidLED was helping me out a lot as well.

cdness said:
Looks nice. I like the color.

You must be a tech person too. I like the recycled Cisco rack brackets

cdness · Oct 9, 2013

ifarmer said:
No I was not a tech person...

Ha! The first thing I noticed was the angle brackets holding the heatsink to the wood. They are identical to the ones we use on our networking equipment. I have salvaged and recycled the same brackets many times.

I would have never known this was your first ump into LED. You did a great job.

ifarmer · Oct 9, 2013

yes took those brackets from the old Cisco network switches from my work

cdness said:
Ha! The first thing I noticed was the angle brackets holding the heatsink to the wood. They are identical to the ones we use on our networking equipment. I have salvaged and recycled the same brackets many times.

I would have never known this was your first ump into LED. You did a great job.