Soothing Shrimp Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Really? Then it's velcro. Thanks for the tip! ctaylor3737 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Really? Then it's velcro. Thanks for the tip! Yea it comes in a square. I just chopped it up to 1 inch squares. Worked awesome, light comes with 3m tape surprised it didn't hold well. I did remove it once so that was probably the reason. I want to make a light on one and see how they do on top of the tank. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 They work well for me on 2.5g, but I think they are not bright enough for me on a standard 10g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Some of the guys around here use the 6500k strips to grow plants I would personally not do it would rather buy the individual leds and solder them that way if one breaks you can replace it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Some of the guys around here use the 6500k strips to grow plants I would personally not do it would rather buy the individual leds and solder them that way if one breaks you can replace it. Here though it is much cheaper to buy these lights, I can buy 16ft for 10-15$. Inidividual led cost about the same each. If these go out you can just snip off the bad and resolder if needed. You can cut every third LED. I am thinking of ordering the 6500k ones just for decent light on top of my tanks. I only grow moss and need something cheap to run a few strips across the top of the tanks. I think it would light them up well. The ones i am using now work good but they are to high off the tanks, it lights the tanks up just not to the point that I need. They are really just for light over there at this point, I plan on making the light on top of the tanks and keeping this up for when I am doing water changes or just work and need to move the light out of the way. This way I will always have it light up under there when I am doing cleaning and things like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Just watch for the growth of algae GSA etc with lights that strong they are really very bright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Did a little 're working and made a homemade light out of egg crate I put about 3 strips across 4 tanks and it works great. Makes the tanks very bright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Which ones did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 I used the one I had, it didn't seem that blue now. Looks pretty good, I ordered the daylight one and will try the same thing and make a brighter light. I can see n all the tanks now and clearly to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumpsmasher Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 It looks pretty bright - how does it compare to standard LED fixtures from Finnex? I been looking to do the same with my new rack and after researching I found there was 3 types of LED commonly found on ebay: This is taken from one of the the ads on there: LED Type: 5050 300leds 5630 300leds 3528 300leds Color: Warm Cool White Warm Cool White Warm Cool White LED Quantity 300leds / 5M 300leds / 5M 300leds / 5M Protection Waterproof or Non-Waterproof Waterproof or Non-Waterproof Waterproof or Non-Waterproof View angle 120° 120° 120° Working input Voltage 12VDC , 6A 12VDC , 6A 1 2VDC , 2A Working power 72W/5M 75W/5M 24W/5M Working Current / M 0.35-1.2A 0.35-1.2A 0.35-0.4A Working Temperature -20 to 50°C -20 to 50°C -20 to 50°C Luminous Flux 540-600 Lumens/M 1200-1320 Lumens/M 390-450 Lumens/M Size L500cm (5M) xw1CM Xt0.20cm L500cm (5M) xw1.0CM Xt0.25cm L500cm (5M) xw0.8CM Xt0.30cm I believe the 3528 also comes in 600 LEDs / 5m, I decided to order in the 5630 based on the above specs. Do you know which ones your is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elo500 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I've been looking at these as well. I found this youtube of someone using the 5630 to grow emmersed plants. Looks plenty bright. There are so many sellers, I'm trying to find the best price with transformer that has a dimmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allicat Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Taylor, what did you get to plug these into? And how long are the connecting cables? I just got some of the LED waterproof tape lights in the 16ft. And I didn't realize it didn't come with the plug Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ctaylor3737 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted September 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2014 Taylor, what did you get to plug these into? And how long are the connecting cables? I just got some of the LED waterproof tape lights in the 16ft. And I didn't realize it didn't come with the plug Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Here is a few power supplies that can be used. They are pretty simple 12v supplies, best to get the ones with the adapter to connect the wires to. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_16?url=search-alias%3Dtools&field-keywords=led%20strip%20light%20power%20supply&sprefix=led+strip+light+%2Ctools%2C329 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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