JBJ 28Gal Nanocub LED DIY Rebuild

OK, So I have figured out that the original DIY Led of 16 3w led's was just not cutting it.


Correct lighting:


12" Makerled dimmable drives and 8 royal blue and 8 Natural whites.


Upgrade too


JBJ Hood bought from Shayna (Thanks much)


I am going to add 3 more Blues and 1 more blue to this build, but for now its just 12 royal blue and 9 Whites. 2 royal blues as Moon lights powered by a 5v power supply.


Here are some pictures they are worth a 1000 words


Had to tare apart the JBJ guts to get my conversion kit to work. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif








Tare out complete:





The lay out. I am going to add 3 more blues and 1 more White somewhere. lol


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This is my conversion kit I came up with.





Test complete





Ok the Challenge was to get all this into JBJ Stock hood and mounted some how. This is how I did it. I am very excited about how it came out.


11 3/8 x 16 3/8 1/8 acrylic from Menards this was cut to fit old plastic that held in glass for MH. I cut 4x .75 plastic dowel spacers and put them on all four corners of DIY LED Heat sink to space the glass away from LED's. Then I used old mounting holes for the plastic that keeps MH glass in to mount the new heat sink into place.


This is how it turned out.





OK so I have it completed and on tank ,but my phone died so I could not get more pictures. I will post some more tomorrow on how I did wiring and I am going to add dimming Drivers two.


Thanks and hope you enjoy my project! All this was down with parts I had laying around the house other then the Acrylic.





I will take all suggestion on where to put my skimmer now. lol Oh well one always for gets something. lol





KP








UPDATE:





This is the incoming wires to the hood!








This is what it looked like when I first put the old DIY light up and just put it on top with some Boards.

 

Yes this is the one I was working on when you stopped by. The skimmer is a Hydor and I am not good about doing water changes. lol

 

Yes I agree. I will be ordering some. Thus was what I had laying around.