Mystical Lady February 10, 2007 February 10, 2007 I am a computer person and I have a tower that takes LED light strips so it wil glow in the dark:) I never used them soooooo....... I had the brainac Idea to hook them up on my tank for 'moon lights' ....I read on another SW forum that this was achieved at some point so I figured I would try it .... I had to go to the EXPO center last weekend to get several computers for 'the business' so I bought a little 200W ATX Power Supply... once I had it all connected at the tank I found out the PS won't work without a Motherboard hooked up to it....DUH!!..... hhmmm.... googled abit and found this site...... http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/196/1 I now have 2 looonnnngggg blue light strips on my tank and can't wait till tonight for the 'moon to come out' ......
jason the filter freak February 22, 2007 February 22, 2007 Link seems to be broken, or i'm just dumb...
lanman February 24, 2007 February 24, 2007 still works .... for me Cool! I have several old computers laying around with perfectly good power supplies. Now I just have to find some packages of LED's that run at the right voltage. The article obviously wasn't written by an electronics engineer "SPDT - Single Pull Double Throw" The switch shown is actually a SPST - Single POLE, Single Throw. But he's right about some older power supplies not having an on/off switch - I just looked at two of mine, and neither has a switch. If the power supply you want to use has a switch, you can just jumper those two pins on the plug, and use the switch on the power supply, instead of wiring in a switch. Sounds like a little single-pole push-button switch would work just fine instead of the SPST - and I'll bet you could find one of those on an old computer, too Good find! bob
Mystical Lady February 24, 2007 Author February 24, 2007 I have a Full Moon shining every night now at my house......
lanman February 24, 2007 February 24, 2007 I have a Full Moon shining every night now at my house...... Well pull your pants back up before the neighbors notice! bob
Guest beatle February 25, 2007 February 25, 2007 Well pull your pants back up before the neighbors notice! bob (Tank) pics! Did you just take the LEDs out of the case or did you use an add-on LED module?
Guest Oldfrontier March 27, 2007 March 27, 2007 There is another way of making moonlights (for the non-computer person) it seems to be much simpler than all the talk about motherboards, cpu cases, and all that. I have a link that you can use to take LED's, wire, and a 12volt power supply and make beautiful moonlights! http://www.r6messagenet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83613 I can go in to much more detail on how to make these if anyone wants me to. I have made several sets of buddy's of mine. You can retro them of put them in you existing reflector if you want to. Kenny
alan mcilvried April 21, 2007 April 21, 2007 Some other DIY Moonlight sites I've found: www.kaotica.com/frag/diy/moonlight www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_moonlight.php Hopefully these links will work for you. Al
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