Diy Led

[Paultimate]

Hey everyone, I am a first time poster, longtime reader and love making as much stuff for my tank as possible.

I have been looking into the LED setups withtheir tremendous price tags and thought to myself "wouldn't it be easyer to buy these bulbs in bulk, like from Phillips, or zleds, and solder them together myself?"

I am not very experience with this type of electronics but if anybody out there is I would really appreciate some advice, or just their thoughts on this

Thanks

[hahnmeister]

Im considering the same thing, but I would wait. The LED's just arent quite there yet...

[MikeFellows]

Ive been looking into this for the last few weeks

I think the LED's are there but there expensive @ £30 / $60 per led (philips luxeon, lumileds, dragon LEDs)

obvioulsy you dont need those for actnic/blue/UV LED's so costs would be cheap for those (£1 / $2)

I'm pretty sure it would work and pay for itself in the first year, with the massively reduced running costs

is anyone using LED's to light there tank, or even tried.

I would be very interested to see peoples results

Mike

[hyewiz]

while i was surfing the forums came across this LED Project.
it made out of 900 LED's
I wanted to share this 2 pictures with u





Materials : 50,000mcd white LED, 13,000mcd blue LED & UV LED, pre-drilled PCB board, copper wire, power supply
each PCB consist of 100x50,000mcd white LED, 100x13,000mcd blue LED & 25xUV LED.
There are no current-limiting resistor on the four PCB. Each PCB consist of 45 parallel x 5 series LED that drive by a 15VDC power supply. Each LED consume 3VDC at a low forward current or you can say I am under-drive those LED.
Total consumption of the 4 PCB is listed below and measured by FLUKE 79 Series II Multimeter:
DC: 15V 1.1A
AC: 223V 0.11A (~24W)
From calculation, 4 PCB x 45 parallel array in 15VDC, forward current on each array consume ~6mA.

The Original Post

[ActinopteryGuy]

Im debating a 10 gal w/ luxon 3 or 5