Today I present my dubious effect dexterity:) All images, unfortunately, made a cell: (you must forgive me, but I'm not out anything better. Normally, could use a sponsor of the cameras: D
To make the cover I used a white foamed PVC 3mm. I could not afford the small thickness of the material, because the cover was supposed to be tiny, hence resistant to warping caused by the weight of the lighting. To help I bought a plastic square, plain adhesive for bonding cyano-acrylate (a blob) and the cutting blade has provided a wallpaper.
First I cut out and glued a small enclosure for lighting. I invented myself, it will be a "lamp" smaller than the fish tank, large enough to accommodate power-Compacta and which will be "hanging" over the aquarium. Dimensions are 30x20x5cm (the aquarium is 40x25x25). I secretly hope that thanks to the fact that the aquarium will be partly exposed, avoid problems with the high temperature caused by heating the tubes. Of course, something for something - perhaps I'll have to think about automatic refilling evaporated water.
That looks like from the outside. Parts of the same docinałem knife and I warn you that hard to make it perfectly flush. And make it look really cool, it must be równiuteńko.
And so from the inside. Here you can see what a handy plastic kątowniczek.
Then it came time to mount the light in the lid. As you can see the faint image below, I used to run the two fluorescent different ballasts. To run a 11W compact fluorescent lamp cap G23 used the conventional (heavy) ballast 13W, because this type of fluorescent starter is already built in, so it is the only option. In turn, the actinic fluorescent 18W 2G11 shank decided to cut costs and used the ballast from used ordinary fluorescent lamps (light bulbs) shank e14 compact power 18W. For this handy soldering iron:) For those interested in how to do it, I recommend this excellent article .
also began to wonder (at the time soon!) As the cover at all mounted on the tank. I considered different from the apt lines from the ceiling:) by the different legs and handles. I was still a lot of pvc so I thought to myself that it might try to hide such a cascade filter housing and connect immediately with the lamp. What I have is already on the head, which is why I left the back side of the lamp face, as shown in previous photographs. The cutting and gluing This contraption was a lot of fun, it took me almost all weekend. The end result, unfortunately, is poorly satisfactory. Number of plastic a bit overwhelming to a small aquarium - optically is more plastic than glass, and the equality of edges and joints of tiles leaves much to be desired. Well, but, well, took me so much that the event must remain that way:) In the future, probably think of replacing the lamp into something finished. Maybe I should try even taped a PVC veneer which bit mask edges.
following sample illumination. First, white fluorescent.
Then aktynika.
I call 10000K + aktynika. In the next step I need to glue the background on the posterior wall of the aquarium (I plan to black) and paste something from the center of the lid, because PVC by a thin light shines.
And here an attempt to water, yet sweet :)
to the next:)
0 comments:
Post a Comment