Jakedoza

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hey guys..

many of you know that things in my life have been rough over the past month.

I am in the middle of a divorce, thank you Chris, you have been a great help in this process. With that, I am looking for a place to live. I would like to buy, but I don't have the work history to do that, so I am going to have to rent something. I don't want to sell the tank, so I am looking for something that I can move the tank into with me. I have to live within the Leander ISD, so I am pretty limited to where I can move. If anyone knows of anything it would be greatly appreciated. I have Ty looking for me as well, thanks Ty!

There are some household items that I will be looking for as well..

washer and dryer

Bed for me and my son

Dresser for me and my son

Refrigerator maybe..

microwave maybe..

and a hot girlfriend that is into reefing or at least enjoys it...

I started a new job at the beginning of this week. I am working at Shades of Texas doing window tint. The first steps of my new life are coming together slowly. Thanks for your continued support.

-Jake

As the title states.. Cube has been running empty for about a year.. pump works, lights work, but need changing.

Sorry this is late guys..

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I think o0zarkawater has a spare bedroom.

I think this is a joke..

I'm pretty sure I'll be looking for a room mate here in the near future. I would love to be able to bring my tank along, but I know that it isn't always a possibility. I will have my son for part of the time though. I'd rather live in the north Austin area, Cedar park, Leander. I'm also not opposed to Round Rock or Pflugerville.

how'd I miss this?? happy belated birthday dude.. We need to go get a beer sometime..

I meant to say the 15th.. well... the 15th will be the date of the club meeting... BAHHHHHH... or at least it should be since it is the 3rd sat of the month.

sorry guys... I have not even sat down to figure out a date. Things have been pretty busy around here. I know the next two weekends are packed for us. We could shoot for the 8th or the 16th if that works.

Cool, Thanks for the info. The second link is a dead link, but I did a search on that page for apogee and I think I found the article that was intended. I'm going to clean the tank this weekend sometime and then break out the camera and take some high res images. Will be posting those in the photo section, but I'll put a link in here to them.

I was planning on making it until I was given a free ticket to the v8 supercar race on Sat. I had to make a really tough decision and have decided to go to the race. Can someone take pictures for me?

There are spectrums of light that these put out that the PAR meter cannot measure, but I'm not sure on the amount. Nick at BML would be qualified to answer that question.

Here is the link to the LED build thread that these replaced.

http://www.austinreefclub.com/topic/22439-its-time-to-go-from-10-48-t-5s-to-led-pic-update/

no, from a DIY LED setup... I'll have to look for the DIY thread I started.

Thanks for the light profile!
right now I have all of them wired together with a potetiometer wired to them, but I'm going to build an ardiuno to handle the dimming in the near future. I'm still kicking around adding the LEDs that I pulled out.

I have 4 of the 14K and 2 of them are custom.. I need to get the specs from either Mike (mframe) or from Nick at BML since I used Mike's custom config for those two.

ok.. now for the juicy stuff...

Tim (timfish) came over with his trusty rusty PAR meter to take some measurements on my new BML lights on the tank.

We were both pretty shocked at the results, but in a way that you wouldn't think.

So here is the configuration of the lights in the canopy and they are sitting ~3" from the surface of the water.

The shocking results of this configuration were that the PAR measurements were lower than expected, but more shocking was how evenly the light was distributed. We didn't measure the entire tank before Tim suggested on adjusting the lights. Here are the results before we moved the lights.

Now a pic of how we reconfigured them.. Note that we did not move them much, yet the results were astonishing.

Here is are the measurements after moving the lights.

I am not done moving them and have an idea of more angles for them.

I would... But I was given a free ticket to the v8 supercar race on sat... I can't turn that down.

I got my new LED setup from BML last week.. I got it installed, but will be building an arduino to handle the lighting schedule.

I first tore apart my old canopy and made it shorter.. I also painted it black to match the bottom..

I decided on 2ft fixtures in the event that I ever get a larger tank I can keep the lighting and just add a strip or two if needed.

Here is the configuration.

...and here is how they are mounted..

I mounted the drivers on a piece of plywood that I will later mount to the wall. I wired all of the drivers together so they can all be controlled with one pot to dim them. I will later mount this to the wall behind the tank once I get the arduino built.

Here is the tank..

That photo is with them turned all the way up. I have them turned back to about 50% at the moment and will slowly over the period of a month or so ramp them up.

Thanks to Nick, Randy, and all the BML Crew! The lights are great and look awesome!

o0zarkawater is looking to rehome his giant RBTA.. You definitely have a tank that will home it. I think it is like 14" across or something like that.

Yes.. I take one!

I would love to come take some pictures..

What?!? Nooooooo<br /><br />Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

I have decided that the one tank is enough and have decided to sell my 29 Biocube..

included is the tank and the stand.. The lights work but probably need replacing.

and I'm not sure why the photo is sideways..