Schnitzels Shallow 250 Leemar
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. This build is soooo awesome
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All glued down
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Time to start soldering
These go hand in hand
These go hand in hand
inkedsparkster
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subscribed...............awesome build so far man!
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All tinned up and ready for wire
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Done!!
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I want to see a pic with all those bad boys running!
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Thanks
It will be running this weekend. My old tank is sold and the guy wants to pick it up this weekend. So I don't have much of a choice.
inkedsparkster
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I like to solder, but dam! That is a lot of connections my friend. Awesome job! I really want to see the finished product for sure!
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U know what, it actually didn't take me as long as I thought it would. I pre tinned all the stars, and it was a breeze soldering star to star. The worst part was cutting and stripping all the wire, that part sucked. Back when I first started researching DIY LEDs a few years ago, nobody ever said whether to use stranded or solid. I've always liked stranded wire better, so I went with that. On my first 2 led builds, it was a pain cutting the stranded wire and trying to twist it before I soldered. After using my brain a little bit, I figured solid wire would be much easier to solder with. Well I was 100% correct. Going with solid wire probably cut an hour+ of time off this build. I used 22g solid wire for all the stars, and I'm using 20g stranded to connect the drivers.
Hopefully someone reading this, that's planning on doing a DIY led can learn from my mistakes.
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Got a new stand for my skimmer. What a difference. In just an hour, the skimmer had a huge head of foam. For the past month, I haven't been able to dial in this skimmer. I Realized the skimmer stand was built too short. Simple fix, just took me awhile to get the stand from my sump builder.
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More full tank shots man! And yeah, as an electrician I am not a fan of solid wire at all. However, in some situations it has its purpose.
Swine
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This is awesome, finally caught up with the thread.
I have a sort of strange question... Do you have any pictures of the overflow/grate teeth? I would like to get a lemar tank with external overflow much like yours. Thanks!
I have a sort of strange question... Do you have any pictures of the overflow/grate teeth? I would like to get a lemar tank with external overflow much like yours. Thanks!
