I'm probably going to run my system at 12 or 24V, and use adjustable (1.5-36V) buck converters to drop the voltages where needed (so I don't dump a ton of heat through a high power resistor). I ordered a variety of 3W and 5W LEDs last week based on your post, and have been testing them out in comparison to the LED strips I used for my current lights. The idea is simple through group things together in a way that would avoid color hot spots and make groups that are as close to white when averaged out as possible. And obviously if you get something more complex like this LED you have to think about how those colors would best be placed. Whereas the former style will have a disco effect sometimes pretty deep into the vivarium. The reason is that the 3 RGB diodes next to each other will more quickly mix to look roughly white and look more even on the vivarium. WWWWYWWRGBWWYWWWWYWWWWYWWRGBWWYWWWWYWWWWYWWRGBWWYWWWW WWRWWYWWGWWYWWBWWYWWRWWYWWGWWYWWBWWYWWRWWYWWGWWYWWBWW The first is how most people normally space out diodes. W=White, R= red G=Green, B=Blue Y=Warm white For some reason we make the sort of mistake of thinking well we should spread them out, to make them more even right? But what that does is create more of a disco effect where you can see color hot spots. Put RGB LEDs in clusters near each other. I can now firmly say I made one major mistake I wish I would have fixed. I dont build any but I did do some custom orders from buildmyled years ago. Since this is a build thread I will throw in my opinion on something. 6 Channels: UV, Blue, Green, Red, Warm white, Daylight white.The light fixture is 12" x 10" x 3/4" and uses a 1/4 plate of aluminum as the backbone of the fixture. All questions and comments are more than welcome!! So with that little bit, heres the build! One thing to note is that all the fancy stuff this light will do is not necessary for a thriving environment by any means. This one can do all of those things using a bluefish controller. Anyway, one big part of mimicking a biome is the lighting such as the weather, moon cycles, and amount of light at a certain part of the year/season. I'm a techy person and like to implement tech into my aquariums, vivariums, etc. Hello all, I wanted to share my lighting that I use on my tanks for inspiration for others that would like to do the same thing.
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