T8 lighting solutions

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Originally Posted by chakup

AP will cut the channel for you for $5 fyi.

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Unless they lowered the cost for cutting the light channel it's $10/cage. I had them do that for me last May. Well worth it to have a larger range of options with my own color changing LEDs


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I use an LED RGBW light strip fastened to the entire top perimeter, with a programmable controller. I like that I can set the white and red LEDs to each be on for 12 hours with a sunrise and sunset (brightening and dimming over the course of an hour). you need the plastic clips that screw into the PVC (ask me how I know). They are super bright. I have the white lights at 7% at the height of the day and the red at 3% in the beginning of the evening and going to 2% after Midnight. Even with the red LEDs at 2%, I can see the entire inside of the enclosure.http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/...pskkkvjwfm.png
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Thats a gorgeous set up. Nice job :)

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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr

thanks for the advice; this is probably how i'll go about it. should be fairly simple: a hole and some silicone "gluing." i probably have some silicone lying around the house, actually.

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It's easy enough to do and you can always peal it off if you wanted to change something. If your indecisive like me you'll like that option alone hahahahaha

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Originally Posted by Mr Sully

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Zcarlrbrugger

I use an LED RGBW light strip fastened to the entire top perimeter, with a programmable controller. I like that I can set the white and red LEDs to each be on for 12 hours with a sunrise and sunset (brightening and dimming over the course of an hour). you need the plastic clips that screw into the PVC (ask me how I know). They are super bright. I have the white lights at 7% at the height of the day and the red at 3% in the beginning of the evening and going to 2% after Midnight. Even with the red LEDs at 2%, I can see the entire inside of the enclosure.http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/...pskkkvjwfm.png
http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4sgqo9ap.png
http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/...psdbchfj6q.png
http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/...psfcngwsnl.jpg

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that is indeed a gorgeous set up. many options here for me. thanks for the input and ideas!

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Originally Posted by jmcrook

Unless they lowered the cost for cutting the light channel it's $10/cage. I had them do that for me last May. Well worth it to have a larger range of options with my own color changing LEDs


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Ordered in October and again two weeks ago, $5 for the channel, they're installing rhp from pro products (they do this for free) and also are cutting an additional cord channel for me to run t-stat probe. Truly one of the best companies have ever dealt with.

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Originally Posted by chakup

Ordered in October and again two weeks ago, $5 for the channel, they're installing rhp from pro products (they do this for free) and also are cutting an additional cord channel for me to run t-stat probe. Truly one of the best companies have ever dealt with.

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Where are they cutting the cord channel for the probe? I may have them do that the next time i order. Also free or no?


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No charge. I had them cut it as close to the rhp cord channel as they could as I use a hot spot. I'm sure they would wherever as long as no structural issues.

Nice to know but too much for me. I just go old school with flexwatt on all my cages and them installing the lights lol. I used to use RHPs but for my set ups, they couldn't maintain a low 90 hot spot without heating up the cool side to around 83F which imo is too hot. I like my cool spots around 78-80F. Here's my T10 stack. Going to do a 4 stack of T8s next to it and then 3 or 4 T25s next to that :) And you can see Caesar sitting there waiting for dinner like usual.
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