Led newbie?

[gmubeach]

I've been reading about leds not sure if the start up price is the worth benifits?

 

Also not sure how much the start up price should be?

 

 

Trying to find a 24 g nano cube without any lighting

Going to mount leds on said nano cube.

 

Need to know how much its going to cost?

How many leds I need

 

I want to grow clams/anomeies/softies/ and lps.

 

My room gets very hot in the summer trying to avoid the chiller expense.

 

Before I had 250watt metal halide and 2 65 power compacts... this did the job, but I needed a chiller

 

 

Anyway let me know your thoughts.. I'm new to the whole led so I won't take anything personal... ps I got a job start tomorow!

[zygote2k]

you can probably use 2) nanotuners PAR 38 bulbs. They'll cost you about $100 each and you'll need to make or find a fixture. clamp lamps are an easy fix, but you'll probably want something nicer.

[Brian Ward]

Look at chucelli's build thread on his LED pendants. I believe it's in the DIY forum.

[gmubeach]

I did and I pm'd him directly is there anyone else in the club that uses led's it seems like a neat idea!

[gmubeach]

xygote I can't find what your talking about can you pm me or write in a link? Anyway I'm super excited by the leds trying to figure out how to hold them in place with out hanging them from the roof.

[dtfleming]

nanotuners.com, look on nano-reef.com in the lighting forum. A lot of DIY led stuff there.

[Brian Ward]

I did and I pm'd him directly is there anyone else in the club that uses led's it seems like a neat idea!

 

143Gadgets' actinic lights are all LED. I believe several other people do as well. chucelli's post should give you enough info to build your own if you wanted to go for it. Hopefully he'll get back to you soon.

 

~Brian

[gmubeach]

Yes hes been very helpful I'm just very weary about burning my house down! I'm not a very good wire guy.. my dad is though so maybe he could help... hes a engineer or was... anyway I'm looking at options now!