Doahh
05/28/2012, 04:20 PM
So I have a 90 gallon tank, 36x30 footprint and 19" deep.
I'm looking at doing another LED DIY like I did a couple years back with my Dads office tank. It is an 8 gallon Biocube and we used 16 LED's over it, Cree white, and Royal Blue. I know that that was overkill but hey, it grows SPS like crazy.
My main focus on the 90 will be SPS.
I am trying to plan an LED setup for my 90, and I am kinda stuck in a few places. As far as number of LED's I'm pretty set at 48 because that's in my price point. I want to set it up in two pendants each 6x9 or so because that's what Rapid LED sells now. I want to lay it out like an AI SOL fixture with sets of pods, 8 3LED Pods on each pendant.
Is the 6x9 long enough for me to do this and get my 30" required front to back coverage or should I step up to the 6x20?
Should I use 60 or 80 degree optics?
My next question regards the mixture of LEDs. I would like to get a nice full spectrum with a more crisp white look.
I have planned
(1:1):1:1
(Neutral White : Cool White) : Royal Blue : Blue
4,4,8,8 per pendant
I have 3 drivers per pendant, so white, blue, and royal blue are all controlled separately by my Profilux.
In addition to all this I will have 2 cool whites per pendant as moonlights, with no lenses, run off of rapidleds moonlight driver.
How does this all look? Am I missing anything? I would also like to build a third pendant identical to the above for my Dads 30 gallon oceanic, it's something like 20 wide x 18 deep x 21 high. I could probably cut down the heatsink to 18" so it'll fit better, but this depends on what you guys think of it needing as far as optics and if it's enough/too much light. If this is all good to go I'll make sure to document everything as I build my pendants and take a bunch of pictures of my tank before/after.
Thanks!
I'm looking at doing another LED DIY like I did a couple years back with my Dads office tank. It is an 8 gallon Biocube and we used 16 LED's over it, Cree white, and Royal Blue. I know that that was overkill but hey, it grows SPS like crazy.
My main focus on the 90 will be SPS.
I am trying to plan an LED setup for my 90, and I am kinda stuck in a few places. As far as number of LED's I'm pretty set at 48 because that's in my price point. I want to set it up in two pendants each 6x9 or so because that's what Rapid LED sells now. I want to lay it out like an AI SOL fixture with sets of pods, 8 3LED Pods on each pendant.
Is the 6x9 long enough for me to do this and get my 30" required front to back coverage or should I step up to the 6x20?
Should I use 60 or 80 degree optics?
My next question regards the mixture of LEDs. I would like to get a nice full spectrum with a more crisp white look.
I have planned
(1:1):1:1
(Neutral White : Cool White) : Royal Blue : Blue
4,4,8,8 per pendant
I have 3 drivers per pendant, so white, blue, and royal blue are all controlled separately by my Profilux.
In addition to all this I will have 2 cool whites per pendant as moonlights, with no lenses, run off of rapidleds moonlight driver.
How does this all look? Am I missing anything? I would also like to build a third pendant identical to the above for my Dads 30 gallon oceanic, it's something like 20 wide x 18 deep x 21 high. I could probably cut down the heatsink to 18" so it'll fit better, but this depends on what you guys think of it needing as far as optics and if it's enough/too much light. If this is all good to go I'll make sure to document everything as I build my pendants and take a bunch of pictures of my tank before/after.
Thanks!