My Living Room Tank

[himyick]

Finally got my own house and fortunately wife is supportive of my hobby and agreed to have a planted tank as part of the living room. Designed a 6ft tank within the living room carpentry to achieve the enclosed look.

Tank Specs:
Dimensions: 180cm x 45cm x 50cm (LBH)
Substrate: 5 packs of ADA Amazonia
Lighting: 32 DIY Cree XML-U2 LED array with electronic controller, 8 hours ON
Filters: 1 x EJet 3388 and 1 x EJet 3368
Chiller: Hailea HS-90 set @ 27°C
Tank: Custom made by N30







The tanks appears blueish due to the camera's colour compensation.





FTS:




DIY LED Lighting
Consist of 4 banks of XML leds, with 8 leds in each bank.
1 x Meanwell driver powers 2 banks each, and both drivers are controlled by the rapidled controller for 8hr sunrise-sunset cycle. Currently the leds are running at half their full brightness to achieve balanced growth vs brightness vs heat load. No lens were used for this setup as I wanted to have the ripple effect.






XML emitters on round 16mm base

[marle]

the whole concept looks fantastic! you can make a living doing this.

Planting this must have been back breaking

[himyick]

Thanks Marle!
Have to plant them over a few days, age is catching up.

[limz_777]

the picture taken is when xm-l is at half powered ?

[Shadow]

nice 6ft tank

[felix_fx2]

well planned. kudos

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[soltari007]

Very nice!

[himyick]

Thanks guys for liking it.

the picture taken is when xm-l is at half powered ?

Limz_777,
I would say its slightly less than half the full brightness. Each driver delivers 2.3A of current, split equally between 2 banks (in parallel), thus each bank receives 1.15A. And 1.15A is further throttled down to 60% using PWM, finally each led is driven at approx 600-700mA. XMLs can take up to 3000mA for full brightness at around 709 luminus flux each.

[hiisoka]

This is awesome!!!! i love it!!
Alot of effort too!!

[bluebubbles]

6 feet, very panoramic scape. Who say we can't have nature inside a home. I am so envious and jealous.

[sammajor]

Good one. Envy you

[TS168]

Beautiful setup. very peaceful feel. well done himyick

[limz_777]

nice , quite bright , also take only 96 watt to light up a 6 feet

a rgb led at the backdrop will be nice too

[tiintinn]

Great layout and does add that nature touch to the living room

Kudos to your wife for her support

[HeMan]

Very very nice . Can have meals there and enjoy the nice scaping .

Well planned.

[tongyang]

Who will object such a beautiful setup. Very professionally done. Congrats!

[leehyeok]

Beautiful. .. my dream setup as well..

[leehyeok]

By the way, where do u get those driver n leds?
What is the costing like?

[David Moses Heng]

DIY LED Lighting
Consist of 4 banks of XML leds, with 8 leds in each bank.
1 x Meanwell driver powers 2 banks each, and both drivers are controlled by the rapidled controller for 8hr sunrise-sunset cycle. Currently the leds are running at half their full brightness to achieve balanced growth vs brightness vs heat load. No lens were used for this setup as I wanted to have the ripple effect.

HI Sir, mind sharing the cost for these components and also if they are available at SLT?

[|squee|]

That Japonica looks fantastic. Congrats on your new home!