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LED Lighting solution for 90x45x45?

Thought they may be abit cheaper than that.
The only experiance i have with tmc tiles is i had 2 400 tiles when i had a hood on the tank to light the forground when i was growing pygmy chain swords. I had them both on a controller as they are single channel tiles. Ran them around 80%. They where well bright.
With no controller i think you may find at 100% you will find the 1500 tiles to bright on tank start up and they will give you problems. Unless you can find a way to hang them higher and then lower them as your tank matures.
 
Daveslaney said:
Thought they may be abit cheaper than that.
The only experiance i have with tmc tiles is i had 2 400 tiles when i had a hood on the tank to light the forground when i was growing pygmy chain swords. I had them both on a controller as they are single channel tiles. Ran them around 80%. They where well bright.
With no controller i think you may find at 100% you will find the 1500 tiles to bright on tank start up and they will give you problems. Unless you can find a way to hang them higher and then lower them as your tank matures.
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I think hanging them is the way to go, for now anyways. I won't be able to hang them from the ceiling but I can mount some sort of angle brackets from the wall. Just need to find some that will look good and do the job.
 
I used retail shopping rail. There's all kinds of fitting can be used as arms for over the tank. They can be put into different slots to higher lower. I brought ones like a shelf with rubber feet on top so I can rest my glass lid on it while I'm in the tank so it doesn't break. It's a bit diy looking but I didn't want to drill onto the wall/ceiling. I did see someone made a rail out of an Ikea clothes hanging rail. About 10quid I think. Chopped in half and used led panel hanging wires about 4quid instead of tmc made ones that are 30quid

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Iain mlaren said:
I used retail shopping rail. There's all kinds of fitting can be used as arms for over the tank. They can be put into different slots to higher lower. I brought ones like a shelf with rubber feet on top so I can rest my glass lid on it while I'm in the tank so it doesn't break. It's a bit diy looking but I didn't want to drill onto the wall/ceiling. I did see someone made a rail out of an Ikea clothes hanging rail. About 10quid I think. Chopped in half and used led panel hanging wires about 4quid instead of tmc made ones that are 30quid

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Great idea. Just had a look on the Ikea site. This one could be customized quite easily I think. Plus it has a system for raising and lowering the top bar built in. http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/...stands/rigga-clothes-rack-white-art-50231630/
BTW, what hanging wires where used?
 
Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301804139262

I used these. I mounted them to the rail using the tmc mounting screws but this was very tricky and included soldering the screw into the fixing. You can just drill a hole in mounting rail and put a bolt threw.

The clothes rail the guy used was this one

://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/small-storage-organisers/racks-stands/mulig-clothes-rack-white-art-60179434/

Sure his was chrome thought. The rails are flattened and looked quite good. It all depends on fit skills I suppose

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Iain mlaren said:
Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301804139262

I used these. I mounted them to the rail using the tmc mounting screws but this was very tricky and included soldering the screw into the fixing. You can just drill a hole in mounting rail and put a bolt threw.

The clothes rail the guy used was this one

://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/small-storage-organisers/racks-stands/mulig-clothes-rack-white-art-60179434/

Sure his was chrome thought. The rails are flattened and looked quite good. It all depends on fit skills I suppose

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The reason i was looking at the other rail was that the height can be adjusted using the built-in system.
 
Oh. Don't no why. Possibly because it's the same supplier. They are quite adaptable in what can be added to them. Easy to screw to cabinet. Also as I said the hanging shelf I got was for a glass shelf so I put glass lid on top while doing maintenance. But it's not as clean as something like the clothes rail.

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That's a similar one. I see a guy that used both half to create I. This guy just uses one go. I'm sure all the rest would be pretty much the same though

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Yeah. The one had seen originally had cut the rail in half so had 2 half with a mms rail suspended between them. He had 2 1000 tiles which have got to be the same weight as 1500 if not heavier.

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