My little 10W led build (a lot of pics)

[ugn]

Hi there, just wanted to share with you my little build.

Startet out with reading page up and page down on this forum and asking a lot of noob questions :p
Bought ~10 pcs 10W led of ebay, some 120mm fans and got some heat sinks locally to start a first prototype:

Heatsink:




Don't have a lot of pics in this early stage, but i pre drilled some holes and mounted the leds on this heat sink and installed the 120mm (19db, can't hear it) on the back side:





This will then put out about 80 watt of LED light in a 200L tank.
And in a -totally- dark room they performed like this:



About 2-2,5 meters to the wall there.

After running the lights a couple of hours i measured the temp to ~23 degrees C, witch where about 4-5 degrees over the room temp, not bad at all.



Have been running this prototype setup for 1-2 months now, can't complain at all, very bright!



The tank on the top to the left.
All the other is 2 x 30W T8 (no reflector's).

So i started to make a more final design, one that is a little more safe and have a higher WAF :p

Ripped out the internal stuff and started measuring



Drilled holes and started to figure out on how to fasten things







(the one in the middle is just to illustrate)







Driver:






Backside:




Final:




Now we're just waiting for the some more LED's to arrive
Then I'll wire and solider things up.

If this works out, i'll make 4-5 more of these, but the number of bolts used here is totaly overkill, just like the amount of light.. as we like it

The original reason why I started reading up on LED's was to lower my power bill.. now I have gone from 2*30W to ~80W .. o'well.


Feedback, both positive and negative, are appreciated!

[DishyFishy]

Nice!

[Sethjohnson30]

Any updates on growth? Im curious what color temperature bulbs you
Have and what sort of driver youre using