How high are your LEDs?

[Blob-79]

Negatory..they are 3w

 

[Zakk]

I have some reg blues on my setup and it covers the gap above rb pretty well,  with the numbers I used and everything 100percent I get a nice crisp white , not yellow at all.  Both strings run at 700ma cause that's the drivers I used.  Have thought about upping to 1 amp drivers


Watch the red LEDs, usually only rated up 700 ma max.

The royal blues are low watt as well.  I burned out a few blues on my main banks before I turned the drivers back.  The blues and reds and UV's are only 700ma I think.  Only the whites can run full out. 

 

[Krazykarl]

All LEDs are 3 watt. I have 156 total. So here's the update and I'm in love. I built a lovely mounting rail out of aluminum corner bead for dry wall. Sort of a bridge if you will over my tank. It holds the leds perfectly and roughly 3" off the water line. I took off the optics and powered it up. I must say I am thoroughly pleased. The colour blended so well as u get no spot light effect whatsoever. I have the whites dimmed completely down and the blues at about 30%. I get a nice 14k look and it's BRIGHT! I think that if I turned up the whites at all I would bleach everything out. Gonna let it Rock for a week with whites dimmed. Slowly bring it up. Overall pretty happy

 

[teebone110]

cool! any pics?

 

[Zakk]

I agree that the Whites are the ones that can bleach out the corals.  You can run a ton of Blues with no effect on the corals, but those whites...

 

[Blob-79]

All LEDs are 3 watt. I have 156 total. So here's the update and I'm in love. I built a lovely mounting rail out of aluminum corner bead for dry wall. Sort of a bridge if you will over my tank. It holds the leds perfectly and roughly 3\" off the water line. I took off the optics and powered it up. I must say I am thoroughly pleased. The colour blended so well as u get no spot light effect whatsoever. I have the whites dimmed completely down and the blues at about 30%. I get a nice 14k look and it's BRIGHT! I think that if I turned up the whites at all I would bleach everything out. Gonna let it Rock for a week with whites dimmed. Slowly bring it up. Overall pretty happy

Awsome.

Do you have a splash guard on your leds?

 

[Krazykarl]

I will be going to get acrylic tomorrow.

 

[daleomilla]

I took the splash off mine and moved them to 4 in from water line  so I dont have to clean the splash every day.

 

[Krazykarl]

Not really an option for me. Between my wave maker and my spray bar my hallides that were almost 15" off my water line had salt creep and splash dots all over the reflectors somehow. Not that I have a tidal wave going on or crazy surface splashing, but somehow it still manages to coat my reflectors. Even my rb strip that is 6" off water gets a little splash