Bear's 90 gallon reef build

[Bear]

Alright, it's been a little while, I was waiting on my multichips and drivers to show up in the mail. I will be using 2 white and 2 blue 50 watt led multichips in a homemade hand fabricated fixture of 2024T3 and 6061T6 aluminum. Unfortunately, 2 of my drivers are not the correct ones. The wrong drivers are actually for RBG led multichips and come with a wireless remote control for dimming and adjusting the lighting spectrum. The original plan was to have the whites wired together and the blues together on a timer so that white goes off first then blue with some LEDs recycled from old children's toy as the moonlights. My power wires are all be recycled from old computer wires, fans and adapters.

Here are the 90 degree lens that came with the multichips

Pre-drilled heat sinks. The multichip that is attached is my blue 460-470nm, the sink next to it has the threaded lens space/retainer

Example of fans and ac/dc adapters

 

[Bear]

Forgot to show the fixture.

 

[Bear]

Led being assembled.

Putting the reflector in place

The lens and retainer in place

 

[Bear]

Got power to the chips, I am still seeing spots. Just the blue hooked up.

It turned the entire ceiling in the garage blue.

Blue and white next to each other.

 

[Bear]

I machined out the top of the fixture to house the LEDs and heat sinks. I made it so that I can add more of these if I need too in the future. I am not sure how much light I will need or if it will be too much light, but I am thinking of adding the RBG chips since I already have the drivers for it and they are dimmable drivers and can help balance put the spectrum.