DIY LED Bio-Orb fixture

[Jeff.:P]

Here's a LED fixture that I rebuilt for my parents Bio-orb's that has some shrimp's, softies,GSP,clown. The original fixture crapped out and after seeing PVH's build I figured that LED's would fit the need. Man these things are bright :: It kinda looks like the arc reactor from Iron Man
Pretty fun project. I gutted the existing fixture and just used the plastic shield.


large heatsink w/fan with chip heatsinks.

guts

 

[Jeff.:P]

LED's on with low exposure setting

Tank with stock Halogen light..

Tank with new LED fixture..

 

[dp28688]

nice setup good job on light.

 

[Jeff.:P]

Replacing the light with another stock fixture was $110, and this LED fixture cost ~$130 to put together. Plus the stock fixture would never meet this intensity. This fixture is close to ~500 lumens. The xenia, gsp, shrooms, all definitely perked up and look great. I love the color that LED's produce somewhere between 12-14k. I would've loved to put the blue and whites on separate ballast like PVH did, but that would have involved more wiring, and making it messier.

 

[Jeff.:P]

Thanks Damien nice meeting you yesterday.

 

[Jeff.:P]

With all the heat sinks and fan these guys stay very cool. Next fixture I'll use the tri-emiters twice the lumens of these guys. ::

 

[pvh]

Looks good there Jeff. I see you wired it up without killing yourself.

 

[Jeff.:P]

lol, it took a couple tries but I got it, and learned a little more about wiring. I think designing it was the most difficult issue; making sure everything will fit, powerful enough, and be able to cool it. thanks again, couldn't of done it without ya.

 

[Jeff.:P]

I love the shimmer it makes..

 

[Jeff.:P]

Here's the what the stock fixture looked like..

 

[pvh]

Nice. I'll be doing a light for a 20L later.

 

[JackTheReefer]

That looks pretty GD awesome, great job!

 

[Jeff.:P]

Thanks Jack!
I'm thinking about building a frag tank using these..

 

[unearth617]

why more led

why did you add more leds the stock led are good for softy and work great i have them on a bio tube for a year now

 

[Jeff.:P]

The salt corroded the wires, and made the fixture inoperable. Plus I wanted something stronger, always seemed like everything was reaching for the light.

 

[unearth617]

got you

you mean the led right

 

[Jeff.:P]

Right.

 

[Jeff.:P]

Some Updated shots

Here some updated pics with my wife's canon elf camera.
welcome to Xenia world..

 

[Jeff.:P]

Xenia w/ mini-anem, pink sponge

 

[Jeff.:P]

Uncle Kaz