Need some feedback.

[linx]

I agree, this is much better.
thanks for your advice!

but i need to work on the plumbing a bit, the ats will be in my livingroom so i want it to be quiet.

very nice

just waiting to see actual pics

thanks
but you will have to wait a bit for that, i'm not building it yet, maybe this summer if i'm lucky.

[mikepao13]

Cool

[SantaMonica]

No no... the regular drain has to be at the bottom; only the backup drain can be up high.

[linx]

No no... the regular drain has to be at the bottom; only the backup drain can be up high.

ok gotcha, i'll fix it

theoretically if i would like to take this design and enlarge it (stack it side by side but still as one piece)
to fit on a 2000 gallon aquarium how many stacks would i need? :roll:
10?

[SantaMonica]

Start with 3 or 4 and expand from there.

[linx]

did some changes, but now i need some nice looking cable fixture.
i was thinking of something like on a computer, but i have no idea of what can be done and what not in this.
what do you think of it so far?

[Floyd R Turbo]

Very interesting build. Where are you going to get the split reflectors? Or is that just a concept? I haven't seen any T5HO reflector designed to split a lamp signature like that.

[SantaMonica]

Yep looks good.

Keep in mind though, that one-sided screens are not as efficient as two-sided screens, for the same area and wattage.

[linx]

Keep in mind though, that one-sided screens are not as efficient as two-sided screens, for the same area and wattage.

Thanks for the feedback and quick reply´s
About that, my reflectors should maximise the bulbs output and ther for minimise the performance drop "to what degree i dont know"
but i was guessing it would have at least 70% of a scrubber that is two-sided.
I would realy like your opinion on this because it's my understanding that you can serves both screens with this kind of lighting
but you need to double the pump to serves both screens.

Very interesting build. Where are you going to get the split reflectors? Or is that just a concept? I haven't seen any T5HO reflector designed to split a lamp signature like that.

Thanks! yep the reflectors are a bit different, i'm a thick plate craftsman
(currently studying mechanical engineering) so i'm going to make them my self.

[Floyd R Turbo]

Interesting...

What SM is saying though is that you cannot get more power out of available light. The reflectors will add to the efficiency, but what it comes down to is that 4 x 24W of lighting = 96W and that's only enough for a 100 gallon system (full capacity). So if you take your setup and put a single- sided screen on either side of it, you would still only have 100 gallons of filtering capacity, because normally a single sided scrubber uses reflectors to utilize the light from the back of the lamp, so you get the full intensity on one side, and then with 4 lights on one side in such a configuration you end up with the same coverage/capacity as 2 light with reflectors on both sides.

With your design, the reflectors are only re-directing the light that travels away from the screen, and between the lamps, to the screen on either side. Effectively, you are halving the light intensity to each side of the lamp. So while it may appear that you can squeeze something out of this arrangement of lamps, you are effectively making 2 single-sided screens lit by half the power of a normal single-sided screen (lamp & reflectors) so it's like 1/4 power screens, so you're only going to get 100 gallons of filtering capacity out of it, no matter how you slice it.

I hope that explanation makes sense. The only way to make it a 200g scrubber with the configuration (center-lit) is to have 8 lamps on individual reflectors, alternating direction.