Biocube 29 PC lighting to LED lighting... all done! (with pics)

Looks amazing! And yeah, I have noticed that such a massive site tends to lack interest in some topics/projects that should draw much more attention, yet is flooded with responses to items that honestly don't deserve the attention. That seems to be true of lots of world wide websites, though (my wife's artwork gets very little attention on one of her art websites, and then random items that truly suck get 10K views and 500 comments in one week, makes no sense... perfect illustration, if you check out For Sale there is a thread I started, there is a picture she drew of Marilyn Monroe that she posted roughly the same time someone else did of their own Monroe portrait, her's has a few hundred views nearly a year later, the other person's has 10K+ views... the other person's is HORRIBLE, but has several hundred comments telling the person how great it supposedly is.)

Nothing against ReefCentral, great site for information and have had some great conversations there, but it does tend to migrate towards multiple posts about how bad an idea is instead of recognizing a great idea.

 

I would be careful with this. DIY is one then, selling for profit is another, and you can get into licensing issues pretty quick. Look back into the LED debachle of a few years ago where companies were being shut down for producing led reef lighting without the proper permissions/patents. On such a small scale, I wouldn't suspect problems, though.
Just a friendly caution. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif

 

If I were you I would sell it as a service, not a product; put a price on the assembly process itself, and charge for that, not the finished product. So lets say it takes you 10 hours to build one, ask yourself how much you think your time is worth? Market wise, you could probably charge 20-25 an hour and that would be a fair price. The customer would be responsible for buying all the parts (you could provide a part list and supplier list to make it easier, or any other combo), but just keep it to you being paid only for the assembly itself, nothing more and nothing less.