sciencefiction
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Hi all again.
I have a set of custom made LED lights. Unfortunately the brackets that came with them can't be installed on my tank at the moment. They are brackets that are supposed to be attached at the back of the cabinet, but the cabinet is narrower than the tank itself so I can't screw them back without increasing the tickness of the cabinet somehow. And even if I do, the way they are designed it means that first they'll be too low, because the lights are supposed to be directly mounted on them, no hanging option, and if installed, they'll be too low, so I can't even access the tank properly.
I am considering some other type of mounting option instead
The problem is I can't suspend the lights from the ceiling or use the back wall.
My only options are to use brackets installed at the back somehow but hold the light suspended with adjustable height, but that's still difficult because of the design of the cabinet.
The other more appealing option is to attach them via some sort of brackets, frame on the sides of the tank.
The tank is rimless 10mm glass, open top. I have no hood.
I have 3 bars of the LEDs as visible on the pictures below. I am only going to use 2 I think as that seems/looks more than enough for a low tech(each bar holds about 15 CREE XM-L's)
I totally have no idea what type of brackets will be suitable. I googled and googled and came up with nothing.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank in advance.
Here are the LED strips. They have screw holes on top so I can possibly attach them to each other to create one unit, if needs be.
Lenght-150cm(about)
Width-5cm
Depth-2.5cm
And, don't laugh at this one....
I have a set of custom made LED lights. Unfortunately the brackets that came with them can't be installed on my tank at the moment. They are brackets that are supposed to be attached at the back of the cabinet, but the cabinet is narrower than the tank itself so I can't screw them back without increasing the tickness of the cabinet somehow. And even if I do, the way they are designed it means that first they'll be too low, because the lights are supposed to be directly mounted on them, no hanging option, and if installed, they'll be too low, so I can't even access the tank properly.
I am considering some other type of mounting option instead
The problem is I can't suspend the lights from the ceiling or use the back wall.
My only options are to use brackets installed at the back somehow but hold the light suspended with adjustable height, but that's still difficult because of the design of the cabinet.
The other more appealing option is to attach them via some sort of brackets, frame on the sides of the tank.
The tank is rimless 10mm glass, open top. I have no hood.
I have 3 bars of the LEDs as visible on the pictures below. I am only going to use 2 I think as that seems/looks more than enough for a low tech(each bar holds about 15 CREE XM-L's)
I totally have no idea what type of brackets will be suitable. I googled and googled and came up with nothing.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank in advance.
Here are the LED strips. They have screw holes on top so I can possibly attach them to each other to create one unit, if needs be.
Lenght-150cm(about)
Width-5cm
Depth-2.5cm
And, don't laugh at this one....