LED lighting

[froggsong]

This gets me thinking... There are lots of LED lights out there now (the ones for cars and whatnot, as well as christmas lights and rope lights), could we simply remove the bulbs from something and wire them up in a panel and get the same effect? Would we have to look for specific colors? I'm sure this is what Gold was talking about...

[Gold3nku5h]

yeah, really blue and red are the ones used for real commercial LED growlights. Thats what the plants use more, but in white light, there is a little blue and red, plus the rest of the spectrum, combining to make white. Like a prism, white light goes in, a rainbow comes out. You would want to look for white blue and red colored, and do a ratio of like 3:1 red to blue. I forget exactly why more red is used, but its got to be because of the plants. The white would be used just to bring it out of the purplish effect that the two will give. I have a nice T5 lighting system, and want to have a moonlight for night time viewing. It will be just enough to tell they are on, but hopefully wont interfere with plant growth, and normal nighttime behavior of the animals. I am going to start working on that in about 2 weeks or as soon as i get some money to get the supplies. Im planning on getting a set of LED christmas light bulbs because there are like 5 of them, and thats probably more than enough to cover it. Also there are alot of different angled beams the LEDS project, and 90 degree's is what you want, if not more. just no less than 90, sorry i type alot usually.

[froggsong]

How about a string of the LED christmas lights? I think I could wire those pretty easily, I've done it before with traditional lights. I think they come in multicolored with like 50 or 100 bulbs. I'll have to check them out when we go to the store next. I'll need something to keep my occupied while my hubby is out to sea since I'm not getting any hours at work.

[Chopstick]

I used the car interior lighting ONLY because I all ready had it aroud the house for over a year. But any LED lights will work they only need about 1~6 volts DC to work,

The main problem you'll need to think about is the Solar panel it needs to have the 4 thing part of the package

1) Solar plate
2) sun-light sensor
3) on/off circuit
4) batteys

All the outdoor light kits I fond with the panel separate from the light housing work this way.

At the back of my panel there are 3 small plugs of the wires to plug into, I just cut the wire wearever and soldered in the wire for the LED's.

As for the "real LED growlights" Red just dis not seam right to me as a moon light color ?

[froggsong]

I was thinking about just doing it so I can plug it in if I use the christmas lights.