My first DIY led jobby (dont laugh) lol

[Bradlowes]

:thumbsup:Hi all :hurray:

so had another boring day but my leds arrived off ebay :) yey - was gonna have a go at sticking a few blues in the Nano tank but thought i best try out pro's and con's first and give it a little blast before i go ahead drilling my deltec 24g..

anyway i bought a cheap "fish box" that i was curing for the rear chamber of my nano - so i thought may aswell pop a few lights in and do a bit of a scape lol just for the hell of it...

anyway this is my build: (im not a novice at all so was my first time)


Bought LED's from ebay

Calculated the LED array online

Bought 220ohm Resistors

Series of 4 -


Here we are:

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Lid With wires for thought ;)

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Blank canvas!

I also took out a load of vent holes but cant find the pics :/

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Testing the leds with the power supply (15v) and resistors in series of 4

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In go the LEDS!

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Leds all in! starting to wire...

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Decent...

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Side View!

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Front View

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With a scaping :) of the spare rock...

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Pretty bright for 1/4 watt leds :) - altho they obvs wont grow any softies or anything still cool to give it a go :)

Gonna put some blues in my nano tank (probs about 40)

Thanks :)

[reefergeek]

did this with my old tropical tank but used 10mm leds the blue ones, used 20 of them looked quite nice until the daughter decided to turn the psu up to 12v and blew then all lol

[Mark J]

did this with my old tropical tank but used 10mm leds the blue ones, used 20 of them looked quite nice until the daughter decided to turn the psu up to 12v and blew then all lol

LOL!!! thats why its always worth sticking a 5V regulator on whenever you have a variable voltage psu ;) as LED's get scared to death when they get a bolt of extra juice up thier backsides hehehe......