Wow ace, that does a really good job of showing the difference.
I am not sure how this screen is going to do because it will have light contamination when the LED's are off, it may need to get...
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Wow ace, that does a really good job of showing the difference.
I am not sure how this screen is going to do because it will have light contamination when the LED's are off, it may need to get...
I plan on writing an article analizing the dry weight and protein content of different cubes if nobody beets me to it. I think it is time for a more universal unit lof measure for food. (Grams...
That's to bad. Do you think you could use a very tight optic on the LED and shine it through air at an angled mirror? It would still loose some light but at least it would not be going through...
I am definately going to use LED's for this one instead of cfl's. This will be a 15(food unit) screen on display in a LFS for customers. I am going to build it so that you can see the screen from...
Henk,
What kind of scrubber are you going to build, waterfall or UAS? Either way you will want to light the screen from both sides. If you are building a waterfall scrubber with air injection...
I would encourage you to build a seperate inline scrubber if it is an option. By building a discrete scrubber you will not need to compromise and you could end up saving yourself a lot of headache. I...
Iron may be helpfull.
Snoopy, you are also going to need to build a switching power supply and ideally PWM circuits to power those LED's. Please give us a detailed build thread when you do this because there are not a lot...
I think that is what people imagine when they say "I wanna start a reef tank!". looks great.
LOL I think you just reinvented the UAS garf. I want to see somebody try this with a 20mm wide acrylic box like Floyd but with the water backed up all the way to the top. IE: no air exposure besides...
Many leaves on that plant will die of light starvation and require pruning to avoid air stagnation and powdery mildew, and I am sure it has seen pruning already. Looks a little stretchy but I am sure...
What are the specs for your tank? looks like a decent start.
"algae turf scrubber" contains the keywords "algae scrubber" but it also gets the attention of people searching for the long tail keyword. I think it is best to have a variety of keywords though so...
I hope this is appreciated and not amiss but I would like to tell everyone that I have posted a link to this forum from my website. Links are the "currency" of the web as they are a major part of how...
Pictures please? I have not read anything like this yet.
I do not actually own an ATS right now, because I am am renting a single room where I cannot have an aquarium, but I am setting up an ATS in an LFS soon. Count me in as one who will try the bubbles...
looks pretty empty to me!
This is a great subject. I wonder if bubbles help screens mature faster in systems with new scrubbers? Has anyone tried this with a brand new scrubber yet?
Plants position their leaves to use sunlight as efficiently as possible.
I will admit the stuff in the image above left me a bit hazy though.
Have you seen the light diffusers used for laptops etc? They are basically prisms that distribute light from the edge evenly across one surface. Is it just me or does this sound perfect for creating ...
Cast sheets of borosilicate can absolutely be cut with a tool. Its not easy, but you can get pretty consistent results if you tap the back of the glass a lot then use a straight edge to snap it...
Floyd, I think you should consider using glass for the lenses on either side of your screen. Good (borosilicate) glass will be more clear than acrylic and more importantly it is 100% UV resistant and...
I figure I am getting a lot out of this board so I might as well contribute something if I can. I think glass is under utilised in DIY setups due to perceived difficulty or danger of fabricating...
I want to build a tank featuring a display scrubber but I don't want it to be red. Are there any good led's for a scrubber that look relatively normal and still give good growth?
Can the reef angel power the lights directly throught the controller with added pwm circuit, or would you have to controll a seperate pwm circuit with a signal voltage?
A tank that big with just some mushrooms and 2 small fish could go a LONG time without food, especially if there where a lot of nutrients in the tank to start with.
Integrating the Reef Angel would add to much cost and difficulty to this project, but you could easily program the reef angel to communicate with the arduino board in the scrubber.
My plan is to build my own power supplies, which will be cheaper and more flexible than meanwells. Since I am building power supplies I will need custom made PCB's, and I figure while I am designing...
The set-up I had in mind would probably have an alphanumeric LCD display and some buttons that could be used to set basic parameters such as light timing, intensity, and fade. It would also have...
To get rid of copper? Don't get it in there in the first place, otherwise remove the source and then massive water changes.
Kerry: Correct me if I am wrong but I highly doubt that respiration occurs between the flashes when using
PWM.
WannaRace: Based on absulutely no scintific evidence, it seems like you ought to...
The future will definately see the reef controller based out of the scrubber.
Try a 6:6 schedule so it will align with the 24 hr. schedule that you live on. Lighting cycles for ATS are one area that need a lot more research. Check out this blog for some interesting circadian...
I have been considering building scrubbers commercially for a while now and it seems like the way to go is to jump straight to the chase and build programmable scrubbers that can control their own...
What sized screen do you have and how large is your tank? Impressive build.
Look at 660nm phillips LED's on rapidled.com. You will have to build the fixture yourself but is is pretty simple and not unknown ground anymore. I would give you a build thread link but I am at work...
Very Interesting...
The surge generator I had in mind would cost about $40-$100 for a unit that could theoretically go up to several hundred GPH in surges. The unit would be powered by an air...
I have some questions before building my first turf scrubber prototype. Hopefully I can get some good answers here because I do not have a lot of free time for research.
I am wondering if anyone...