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Cheap RGB Light for 45P

Tim Harrison

Tim Harrison

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Anyone recommend a cheap as chips controllable (dimmable) RGB LED for an ADA Cube Garden 45P. It's for my new scape, my old Superfish fluorescent is a bit undersized and isn't quite up to the job.

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Dry start scape

Finally got around to creating a scape, the first in a long while. It'll be dry start, and likely stay that way for a few months or more whilst home renovations are undertaken. I've been on a bit of a journey over the last 20 months or so, and I've still yet to arrive. But it's good to be...
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Superfish Scape LED 64, sells for £59.99 most places. Got one over a 45cm scape in work.

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The dimmer/timer is separate Tim:

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£29.99

Someone else may be able to verify this, but think the Twinstar inline controller works on these units. If you have one of them laying about you should be able to use that as the timer/dimmer.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I like the look of the Twinstar, RGB, cheap, dimmable etc, and comes with a controller.
One of our sponsors Riverwood Aquatics has two, version II.

P.S. Now only 1 left
 
Really pleased with this little light. It's amazing value for money, the quality is pretty good. Also, the colour rendition is just as appealing as the Twinstar S range. The builtin controllability is a great bonus.

I've read some reviews were folk criticise it for not being bright enough, but It has more than enough lumens to grow pretty much anything, even demanding plants. Either way, I'm sure Clive @ceg4048 would have something to say about Klingons and photon torpedos:p I can't really understand why similar lights have such a huge price tag. Well I can actually. . .

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It had a European type plug with a UK type adapter plug. Couldn’t see how both went together at first. There were lugs in the way and the opening in the UK plug adaptor was slightly too small.

I figured it out eventually with the help of brute force and a Stanley knife. The transformer gets quite hot though. Maybe I should buy a new one. Any suggestions Graham?
 

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