Originally Posted by itzrulez
Cor yeah! That's a good one isn't it!
Cor yeah! That's a good one isn't it!
ow, sorry...
I didnt see that was uploaded by you like the other...
LOL :lol:
No worries mate. Easily done. :mrgreen:
Lights on
Bulbs are 20w each. The whole thing can slide back & forth to adjust the distance to the screen.
Ordered some acrylic mirror to make reflectors.
Looks good, Ive just ordered a box of 40 of those.
Are you going to light the other side too?
reef addict by night
By the wat the acrylic mirror bends really easily if you heat it up...
reef addict by night
No, the design doesn't really allow for that so it'll have to be one sided.
Thanks for that. I've not used it before.
Will being a couple of inches from the bulbs make it warp do you think?
I'll stick it to some backing if that's the case.
Chiller and scrubber/sump in carcass of new cabinet built to house them.
Made some reflectors from polished aluminium (some old T8 reflectors cut into shorter lengths) - Didn't bother with the acrylic mirror in the end
Lights with reflectors installed on scrubber
Thoughts?
Looks pretty good to me! That's a great idea on the reflectors. One step better could be to find reflectors for T12 lamps. The thought being that since the reflector is made based on a lineal source, the reflector would be larger for a T12 versus a T5 for instance, since the source is wider (lamp diameter). Taking that to the extreme, for a triple-tube lamp, you have a source that is roughly 2x the diameter of a T12, so then you would want a reflector that is about 5 or 6 inches wide, but I think you would have a harder time finding one like this. And this would work for the tubular CFL, not sure how such a reflector would work for the spiral CFLs.
Plus, you would probably only see a slight (10% maybe) increase in the light power added by using a 'perfect' reflector versus the one that you are using, but I just figured I would comment about it for anyone else looking to do the same thing. If I had the time, I'd search online for various reflectors using the same principle.
Installed and running. A bit untidy, have to sort out the cables and pipes and the rock in the sump is going in the display when it settles down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TOQ4EpdJag
A few more bubbles than I was counting on, I will need to make a splash guard to stop the bulbs & reflectors from salting up.
Rubbed the screen on the old screen from my stop-gap scrubber. Some algae has attached to it and seems to be sticking to it so far. Dunno if that will speed up the growth process.
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