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DIY Moonlight
For this I guess I need:
About 5 or so Super Blue LED lights: http://www.lc-led.com/View.jsp?idProduct=64 (smallest amount you can order is 15 - for 21 bucks)
A soldering iron of Less than 30 watts
A transformer of some sort
Some resistors?
some sort of wire (speaker?)
Something to solder with (iron? lead?)
Never done this sort of thing before but would love to try. Marla, I know you are handy with a soldering iron and I know a few of you others like Steelsack are pretty darn good with your hands and such, I would love to try doing this but need some guidance in this totally un-herp related arena. Any advice or guidance would be very much appreciated! If I can get it to work and am happy with the finished product I will definately turn this into at DIY with photos etc. That'll probably get us some crazy hits - I think we'd be the first herp forum to do it, at least I've never read about it anywhere else
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How To: Make your text look cool!
here is a place I found http://www.theledlight.com/catalog.html I am still tinkering with a few ideas with leds for no heat lighting in some of my enclosures I keep alot of arboreal snakes and use heat panels for heating and just dont like useing cheap flourecent fixtures for lighting since most of them give off quite a bit of heat themselves , which makes it a bit harder to keep a good temperature gradient the led lights should help quite a bit once I get it all figured out
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thanks for the link! And Welcome! good to see you around here!
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I guess my main question now is where can I get casings or fixtures or whatever? Some place to install the lights into? Are there places that just make that sort of thing or would I need to get some plastic and fasion some sort of casing... I'd like to if possible do something similar to that tube pictured above perhaps I could just build a plastic box and have the holes drilled in the bottom so I could angle them the same way....
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here is the light I am working with currently
I just want to create accent lighting within my cages
I dont know if that is what your looking for or not it can be found on this page http://www.theledlight.com/specialtyleds.html if not there are many other ways on the site to mount the lights you just have to search since it isnt that well organized I will say they are very very fast on getting stuff shipped
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wow thanks a lot!
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Re: DIY Moonlight
Thank you for the link.. very interesting thread... Buy the way. can someone tell me where I can get Led lights?
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Re: DIY Moonlight
Originally Posted by RobertCoombs
here is the light I am working with currently
I just want to create accent lighting within my cages
I dont know if that is what your looking for or not it can be found on this page http://www.niceledlights.com if not tere are many other ways on the site to mount the lights you just have to search since it isnt that well organized I will say they are very very fast on getting stuff shipped
Correct, you can do a simple search in google or ebay,you can find plenty of leds.
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