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72" plant lighting
- Thread starter Werwa
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Not off hand depending on your definition of quality.
Beamswork makes/made one. Some like small brands made some.
Keep in mind some report that at that length the lights bow a bit.
One of the problems is shipping I believe. I'm pretty sure in the US when you get like over 48" is gets disproportionately expense
Then of course is the # of 72' tanks sold compared to 48" or less.
If reefbreeders still sold freshwater models their 50" size would roughly cover the 72" area.
Photon 50-V2 Pro LED Light Fixture
Why do you have to avoid two 36 inch strip led. Is it because your tank has no central brace, and you want to hang the light on open top. My 125 gal came with glass top, central brace and double 36 inch fluorescent light hood, and I am glad to replace with double 36 inch led strips that are much brighter and last much longer..
Hello. I am in such a case with my 200x70 cm. I made my own lighting as I wasn't Ok with commercial ones that are even too expensive or not enough powerfull for me. Maybe you could do the same way ?
With that size of tank there is not much choice... ! Or have to put 4 or 6 chihiros or other... Definitely too expensive.
My tank is 200x70 cm so even in the width I have to put several ranks of led lights to cover all the surface. Finally I came with home made and I am pretty happy of the result. I made 3 bars with 3 ranks of led strips in each.
The benefit is that you can exactly tune the color temperature to fit your needs, or also add some RGB strips to allow you tuning from day to day.
I used mainly 5730 led strips, 12V, with a good lm/w ratio (100 to 150), 18w per meter and about 2700lm / meter of strip. 6000K. A bit green so I added some horticol strips (pink color, made from red and blue LEDs) to enhanced red colored plants.
I think I have more or less 36000 to 40000 lm. It's bright, but not too much !
Sorry for my poor English ...
HTH
A couple of photographs would be nice!
Hello
I don't want to pollute Werwa's thread. If some mod wanna split the thread to another, feel free to do so 🙂
Here is a picture of my tank but the picture is more than a year old. Tank was itself about 3 monthes old. Just to show you the light flow, it was at 85% at this time. Now the tank is about 1 year and a half.
I'm not at home so I just have that for the moment but will send you some recent pics of the tank and the lightings I made.
Bye
I don't want to pollute Werwa's thread. If some mod wanna split the thread to another, feel free to do so 🙂
Here is a picture of my tank but the picture is more than a year old. Tank was itself about 3 monthes old. Just to show you the light flow, it was at 85% at this time. Now the tank is about 1 year and a half.
I'm not at home so I just have that for the moment but will send you some recent pics of the tank and the lightings I made.
Bye
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Yes DIY can be quite rewarding.. This is a build for a 200gal tank. Technically way overbuilt actually.
Do not believe the cost exceeded $400 US at the time (I designed, someone else built)
3W class emitters. Driver mA listed in diagram.
Survived the test of time with the only failure was the fan on the Meanwell power supply after a few years..
8 channels but the whites were on 2 each so really 6 channels.. One thing the cyan was left out due to a shipment error.. So 5 channels.
At the present time and a bit of hindsight the 1000mA may have been a bit aggressive. Today I'd probably not do more than 750mA. It was ran dimmed so it sort of didn't matter.
Oh and it was reduced to 14 x2 for each of the whites 6500k and 3000k So 56 whites on the side bars total. The ones in the center bar were used as filler on the blue channel.
Cyan (skipped), 660nm red and a violet channel.Those 3 were 500mA
Somewhere around 220 total wattage..
The hyper violets ere probably around 420nm. Viosys's were available by that time.
Last minor correction..it was 15x4 so 60 whites total.
Diodes are rarely the major cost btw.
Edit: Just quickly priced the leds for this at todays prices.. About $2.40 each on average. This is for luxeon Rebel leds and the Viosys hyperviolets.
Sorry current prices are err pricy.. sigh.
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