My poor first attempt at acrylic

[lildingy]

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[BBQHILLBILLY]

looks good to me. congrats. especially for 1st attempt.

[hobogato]

looks like it fits well. good job!

[lildingy]

Its killin me waitin for my lights and drivers to arive!! Still have to figure out a shelf or somthing to mount everything in it.

[lildingy]

http://img.tapatalk.com/6c6600a3-9d1c-5900.jpg
Whoot!!
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[rrasco]

Looks like you got some SMD LEDs there :D

[lildingy]

no one told me i would have to learn to solder and machine plastic to keep a saltwater fish tank.

[Scutterborn]

no one told me i would have to learn to solder and machine plastic to keep a saltwater fish tank.

I thought it was a given... Lol.


- Ben -

[Scutterborn]

Can you power them up and use a volt meter?


- Ben -

[lildingy]

i removed the post cause i just found the answer.... i was about to blow up the drivers ugh

[Scutterborn]

That woul been fun for 0.000001 seconds!!


- Ben -

[lildingy]

Oh how do i relish those moments :P

[Scutterborn]

After that fun you would start yelling "insert appropriate curse"


- Ben -

[lildingy]

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well just about wired up, waitin on heat sinks now. Ohhh tha agony

[rrasco]

Euro blocks FTW. What dimmer is that?

[lildingy]

no that was earlier changin out the harmonic ballencer on the wifys infinity. Worst thing was the belt was harder to get on then the freakin pully.

[lildingy]

No dimmer unfortunatly this is a test bed for the bigger tank. the "chip?" is a powersupply for the cooling fans :)

[lildingy]

http://img.tapatalk.com/4602e967-2cf2-e460.jpg

It's alive, and now i can't see

[lildingy]

cost for everything including acrylic was $64.50. I didn't think i did too bad, but then again i did see a coralife 8" t5 fixture for about the same price the other day. If anyone wants a breakdown of what all is in it holler and i can post one up.

[lildingy]

http://img.tapatalk.com/ad8b8c99-403e-dd17.jpg

On the 44 just 20w :)
Hope it wont cook the 2gal its supposed to go on :(

[lildingy]

Anyone with a lot more technical knowledge on electronics? I was wanting to add a little 3v led for a moon light, but i dunno if there is some kinda resistor i can add in line with my 12v feed to drop it down?

[lildingy]

http://img.tapatalk.com/ad835242-245b-312f.jpg before

http://img.tapatalk.com/ad8b6621-f608-81db.jpg
aftee

[lildingy]

Ok, What I would give to talk to an EE right now. Does anyone with a good bit of electrical knowledge care to help with this experiment?

My leds are too bright hehe <insert Tim Taylor joke here> but my drivers are not dimmable, so the theory is to install a resistor in parallel. What kinda resistor i asked myself.

here is my math using my horrible memory of ohms law and some wiki.

my actual voltage is 8.95 measured with a multimeter. The driver current is 900ma. So here is my understanding of the math (which could be totally off)

8.95/900=.00994
8.95/700=.01278

difference being .00264

I believe that means i need 2.6k resistance to drop my current to 700ma

can I buy a 2k resistor and plug it in to "dim" the lights?