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    LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Here are some pics of my LED scrubber on my 10g horizontal that I have been working with and talking about in a couple other posts. Its made with (4) 3W 660nm LED's, the screen is 2.75"x6.75" horizontal mounted. The growth is much more dense with the LED's and faster as well. The pic of the growth is 4 days worth. I hope to get better pics this weekend maybe. That red algae stuff is tough!!!! (edit: the LED's are 2" away from the screen)
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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Hello!

    Thats look great, looks as it grows very well with algae in just 4 days to be an horisontal scrubber.

    Is the screen totally submerged under water?

    jnad

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Its not submerged so to speak but the flow is so heavy that it is under water technically. Seeing I have so much flow I thought about making the LED's closer. They are at 2" now and I thought about cutting that in half.
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    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Impressive growth for just four days. Would take me a week to get that kind of growth. :lol:

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    What LEDs are you using Kerry? That is good growth for a few days

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Ebay, this is the place: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3W-High-Power-R ... 1c1f93e81b . I also got the 4-7 LED driver as well but it needs more then 4 LED's or it blinks so I put 4 12,000k's over my display as well. It runs 8 just fine. I got the adhesive heat sink stickers and heat sink from rapidled.com. One note on the heat sink. I was at Lowes and got a piece of channeled aluminum and it works great for a heat sink. About 8 bucks for 3 or 4 foot. So I would suggest Lowes for the heat sink (in the hardware section, aluminum channel), this Ebay place for the LED's and driver, then rapidled.com for the adhesive heat sink stickers.
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    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
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    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Ooh, didn't realise you made them yourself ops: , but they seem to work really well. A bit too difficult for me I think.

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    I hope to get some pics this weekend or the next on how they are assembled. Its really very simple if you can solder wires and tell the difference between positive (+) and negative (-) wiring. You can get adhesive thermal stickers for the LED's so mounting them to the heat sink is easy. I am going to mount the ones for my display area in a eves trough (gutter) since its the same basic shape already.
    150G. Reef/Mix
    125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
    10G. SW Fish/Reef.
    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Do you think these would do the trick Kerry?

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    Re: LED conversion on 10g horizontal scrubber

    Those should work just fine, you may not want to use the three lens covers. I tried lens's and it burned the algae. Those are basically the same specs as mine. The price is right for them to.
    150G. Reef/Mix
    125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
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    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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