FEELER: LED group buy

[Triggler]

Getting 48 LEDs from ecoxotic comes out to $453 shipped dude, at this rate you coould just get 4xPanorama Modules and save yourself the trouble of the build! lol, but these probably don't put out the same amount of light as the ones you're planning on getting

[superman858mm]

yea, it wont put out as much light plus it's a little bit cheaper plus the bulbs that i use will be better then the Panorama...

[Triggler]

yea, it wont put out as much light plus it's a little bit cheaper plus the bulbs that i use will be better then the Panorama...

How much do you estimate it would cost to build a 24 led unit with 12xwhite and 12xblue according to your specifications?

[superman858mm]

http://www.rapidled.com/servlet/the-...ium-LED/Detail
the total came out for 2 modulars to be roughly around $560...

[superman858mm]

without the heat sink....67.50 per heat sink 18 inch in lenght...

[superman858mm]

so it came out to be around $700 for 2 modulars...

[Triggler]

so it came out to be around $700 for 2 modulars...

Dang! I think I'll stick to an Odyssea MH for now! ahaha

[jcal]

Dang! I think I'll stick to an Odyssea MH for now! ahaha

I would to. I'll wait till LEDs come down a few notches.

[superman858mm]

when can we start the group buy from rapidled.com n heatsinkusa.com....?

[surfer85]

I checked out rapidled and from what I saw they don't carry the XP-Es royal blues, they do carry the XP-Gs though. I think I'm going to get my leds from the links scubajay posted. The lights are around $5 for the same ones that rapidled.com has for $7. As far as the heatsinks go I'm going to do some hunting and see if there are cheaper ones around.

when can we start the group buy from rapidled.com n heatsinkusa.com....?

[surfer85]

These are the lights I am going to get from cutter.com

XPGWHT-L1-1B0-R5-0-01
http://www.cutter.com.au/proddetail.php?prod=cut937

Price=6.46ea mounted to PCB
10 (-1.19)
50 (-1.49)
100 (-1.78)
250 (-2.08)

XP-E ROYAL BLUE
http://www.cutter.com.au/proddetail.php?prod=cut902

Price=5.91ea mounted to PCB
6-10 (-0.35)
11-24 (-0.50)
25-49 (-0.70)
50-100 (-0.95)

Shipping is free if the order is over $100. So with what I'm already getting shipping is already free.

Will post prices for the drivers I will be getting and also the dimmers.

[superman858mm]

is it cheaper to get at cutter for everything? such as heatsink, driver, n bulbs? let me know so we can start the group buy soon...thanks

[surfer85]

The Meanwell ELN-60-48D are about the same price as rapidled.com so it'd probably be easier to get the leds and dimmable drivers from cutter.com. I'll be getting 4 of them and it'll come out to just under $180 for them. For the lights and drivers together so far I've got $450 easily qualifying for free shipping. There is no price break for the drivers just the LEDs. The heatsinks they have are not large enough for our use. I'm going to be making my heatsinks out of some scraps I've got at work. I'm still searching for some cheap dimmers.

[Triggler]

How many of these LEDs do you think will roughly equal the light of a 150MH?

[surfer85]

was actually going to get a few of those to replace one of my 175w MHs. After doing a bunch of research I realized that if I just built my own I could get way more power for less money over all. From what the guy said at MAX it'll probably do pretty well on your tank. What do you have in it?

Do you guys think 2 of these "50/50" strips would be enough for a 29 gal nano (30" long) ?

http://www.ecoxotic.com/products/mod...d-modules.html