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My 4ft MakersLED Part 3 (final)

September 23, 2012January 15, 2013 NoGiAquarium

Finally found some time to finish off this project. Pretty happy with the results. 😎 The daylight controller in action

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My 4ft MakersLED Part 2

September 13, 2012January 15, 2013 NoGiAquarium

A little more progress tonight. The LEDs are all wired up into 4 segments. The lenses are attached and a test run was done with power.

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Quick change of colours in the nano LED

September 13, 2012January 15, 2013 NoGiAquarium

I was finding the nano LED a little too blue so I swapped the blues out for some cool whites. Before: After:

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My 4ft MakersLED Part 1

September 9, 2012January 15, 2013 NoGiAquarium

I finally got around to ordering from RapidLED last week and my parcel arrived on Friday. As I found time over the weekend, I did a little work on the system. My order from Rapid was a solderless 48 LED dimmable kit with daylight controller. It’s a good thing I took my time with ordering […]

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DIY Nano LED

May 7, 2012November 26, 2012 NoGiAquarium

The LED components I chose for this nano tank were: Cool White Cree XP-G R5 LED + 80 degree lens x 4 Royal Blue Cree XT-E LED + 80 degree lens x 2 Osram 660nm 3W Red LED x2 Mean Well LPC-35-700 driver Sheet of finned aluminium PC fan + DC power supply I was […]

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DIY Light Stand

April 17, 2012January 15, 2013 NoGiAquarium

Firstly some materials from Bunnings:   These bottom 2 pieces I will join to make a lip for a splash back cover and also a lip for the LED plate to sit on. The top sheet was a thin flat piece of aluminium with fins that I noticed while looking at the stand frame. Thought […]

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Introducing NoGi’s Yellow Nano Fun Park

April 17, 2012August 24, 2015 NoGiAquarium

This is going to be my first serious attempt at a shrimp breeding tank. I am calling this my Yellow Nano Fun Park: Yellow – colour of the shrimp I will keep Nano – nano cube Fun – hopefully they will have so much fun that they will breed Park – lots of low growing […]

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DIY LED Lighting for a Freshwater Planted Aquarium

March 7, 2012May 23, 2012 NoGiAquarium

I’ve been on the hunt for some good lighting for my tank and some of the prices for a good LED system simply blew me away. For what I want it’s costing somewhere between $2k – $3.5k. Instead, I’ve opted to investigate the DIY option from RapidLED: Cree XM-L (Neutral) x 18 Cree XM-L (Cool […]

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