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I think you can , but these only create a "glow" rather than light up your tank. Perhaps a row of these would be ok, but may make your tank look like a karaoke "with bright bright lights".
Hi everyone,
It seems that a lot of the LED projects involve expensive LEDs. Since I'm cheap, I'm wondering if anyone has tried to use these flexible waterproof LED for a DIY lighting project (http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_BIN=1...4&gbr=1&_pgn=5) - they appear to be similar to some LED sets being marketed as underwater aquarium lighting.
Does anyone have any experience with them?
I think you can , but these only create a "glow" rather than light up your tank. Perhaps a row of these would be ok, but may make your tank look like a karaoke "with bright bright lights".
I had it in my tank, diy myselfOriginally Posted by snarl
Hi everyone,
It seems that a lot of the LED projects involve expensive LEDs
Does anyone have any experience with them?
How was the effect?
My intention is to put it directly into the aquarium water, perhaps angled slightly or under a acrylic ledge that I have placed inside. That should have the leds pointing downwards, rather than towards us, to reduce the KTV effect.
It seems that there are several different types of these flexible water-proof LEDs - which type did you use. I am thinking of getting the SMDs - Q&As from some vendors appear to suggest that the SMDs are brighter/more efficient.
Also, how did you connect it to the 12v power supply (without electrocuting all the fishes!)?
maybe the master of diy, unclerobin can do a guide for all the bros~How was the effect?
My intention is to put it directly into the aquarium water, perhaps angled slightly or under a acrylic ledge that I have placed inside. That should have the leds pointing downwards, rather than towards us, to reduce the KTV effect.
It seems that there are several different types of these flexible water-proof LEDs - which type did you use. I am thinking of getting the SMDs - Q&As from some vendors appear to suggest that the SMDs are brighter/more efficient.
Also, how did you connect it to the 12v power supply (without electrocuting all the fishes!)
haha his in water LED light is beautiful!
Wow! Please share some of that knowledge - Ebay looks like a good place to buy these LEDs cheap.
u can find similar stuff at sim lim towers.
No need to diy, just buy the leds strips and plug in adaptor and switch on power!.
Any ideas what the prices are like at Sim Lim Towers? Ebay is about S$3 per 30cm/15 LEDs.
Haha bro. thanks for the compliment many bros give the same comments too.
Hi bro. depending on how many LED light you want in your tank, anyway is cheap.How was the effect?
My intention is to put it directly into the aquarium water, perhaps angled slightly or under a acrylic ledge that I have placed inside. That should have the leds pointing downwards, rather than towards us, to reduce the KTV effect.
It seems that there are several different types of these flexible water-proof LEDs - which type did you use. I am thinking of getting the SMDs - Q&As from some vendors appear to suggest that the SMDs are brighter/more efficient.
Also, how did you connect it to the 12v power supply (without electrocuting all the fishes!)
Btw can i know what is your intention of putting those LED light in your tank for? ( if you are using the LED to brighten up your whole tank i suggest you use those overhead light) I had it in my tank is to create a silhoutte effect on certian parts of my scape together with moonlighting effect during lights off at night.
If your going to DIY for lighting effect, the cost will not be as high.How was the effect?
My intention is to put it directly into the aquarium water, perhaps angled slightly or under a acrylic ledge that I have placed inside. That should have the leds pointing downwards, rather than towards us, to reduce the KTV effect.
It seems that there are several different types of these flexible water-proof LEDs - which type did you use. I am thinking of getting the SMDs - Q&As from some vendors appear to suggest that the SMDs are brighter/more efficient.
Also, how did you connect it to the 12v power supply (without electrocuting all the fishes!)
CREE lighting cost so much more as the intensity is much greater.
robin's new 3footer is nice. i went over last week to preview.
Loved the amber light hiding behind the plants.
For moonlight perhaps try requesting for his method of making, really good idea for cabinet tank owners.
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I have a cheap overhead, 9w florescent light, but the surface has frogbits and water lettuce, so not a lot of light is getting into the tank.
So I decided that having the light inside the tank itself would be better, as I placed an acrylic terrace inside as well. Also, placing the light inside/along, closer to the plants should eliminate/reduce the problem of penetration, and lower the amount of lighting/intensity required - it's closer to where the light is required after all.
I have played with the waterproof light strips before, and they are pretty bright.
I bought the S$32/metre strips from SLT, with like 60LEDs on it. Used it to DIY a make-up light for the girlfriend, but it blinded her so need to find a diffuser lol.. the $32/m strips are the BRIGHTEST I have found so far in SLT.
Anyway, you can get a 2.1mm barrel plug connector, and a 12V wall adaptor with a 2.1mm plug from SLT for $20 also.
Then, simply solder two wires to the LED strip contacts, and cover the whole area with aquarium silicone. Then connect the other end to the 2.1mm connector.
This way, you can simply plug the 12v wall adaptor to the light. If you want you can straight away splice the wires from the LED to the 12v adaptor, but I don't like it cause you cannot really re-use the 12v adaptor next time.
Here's a photo post on my blog, hopefully it'll be useful on how I did the connections:
http://edward.19thsc.com/?p=618
Wow, it looks quite bright in the picture(s)
Ok, so it means that to connect 2 strips, we'll need solder them together, and then cover the soldered area with aquarium silicone. I'm guessing that if we use heat shrink tubing, it'll look neater as well.
Looks like it'll be cheaper to buy from eBay the parts that I need - savings likely to be at least 30% - 50%.
I'm looking at this now, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...Q:US:1123#shId , which the seller has indicated are 6030 SMD leds. I can't find much information on these 6030 SMD leds though - does anyone know how bright they are?
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