XSiVE's 120 in-wall

[Sir Patrick]

Sweet build!!!

[jolson10450]

Very nice! so you just used epoxy to attach your LEDS to the aluminum? What type of epoxy? i am planning a build soon but i have seen some people screw them down and others not tell what they did.

[XSiVE]

Very nice! so you just used epoxy to attach your LEDS to the aluminum? What type of epoxy? i am planning a build soon but i have seen some people screw them down and others not tell what they did.

It's arctic silver thermal epoxy, it acts as both a bond and a heat transfer agent... the only drawback is that if you are going to get one of the LEDs off.. you will be replacing it and most likely scratching the aluminum.

[XSiVE]

I spent all yesterday evening working on the small wiring details. My wrists and fingers are killing me.

here's how I placed the wiring container & fans overtop..



I was pretty damn tired but I hung them over the tank rag-tag using the hangars that I had supporting my halide setup. I will be getting some new roller track hangars to take care of this mess. It clearly needs some adjustment but its more than hard to do with the current setup. the fixtures are supposed to be about 8" from each other in the center, they are currently about 4 so my light spread is nowhere near what I want it to be.




then take a look at the before versus after.

I also need to dial in the color temp to something more my liking... I will probably do this while I wait for my roller track

Before: you can see how ambient the light is from the 2x250W 14k halides + actinic t5.


After: again, spread and color temp are not where I want them to be right now, so it looks "darker" at first glance, but pay particular attention to the orange monti cap. You can definitely see how much brighter the light actually is on this thing.

[BK's Reef]

pretty sick xsive! i love the coraline growth on the tank