Retrofitting a Jebo R119 lighting hood

[Tom]

Hi guys
This is my second attempt at retrofitting the hood the first time the hood became to hot. So now I have cut two holes in and will fit dc boxer fans, one to blow the other to suck. Here is pic 1:

[Tom]

The drip tray is empty and needs to be removed and replaced by another lighting hood. It has to be as nice as the current one.
Edit: The fans are not in yet as well as the 5t`s, they will go in today.

[Copperband]

Tom looking nice! Have you tired to get a price on the a second hood from your LFS?

[DragonReef]

Nice one Tom

Can you take a pic of the actual lamps ?

[Tom]

I want to have a closed hood for the drip tray side as well. Just incase the Hawk fish wants to go flying . Today I will post pics of the t5`s going in, at the moment I will just use two t5`s and two t8`s (one atinic t8).
My tank is currently used to two white t8 and one atinic t8.

[Tom]

Top pic is the first try at using the t5`s. Thanks Rory.
The bottom is a closeup of the fan cover. It still does not have the fan in, I have a space issue that has to be sorted because I want to recess the fans.

[Hill]

I only see the first pic. Those are nice looking fans. It appears they are recessed. Is your tank on the tank tour? I would like to see it.

[Afsal]

Does this hood come with the perspex to cover the tubes ???

[Mekaeel]

some nice DIY work there tom,very neat!

[Tom]

Here is the open cover with the fans fitted:

[Tom]

LOL the main fans were too big so I pimped my hood with pc cooler fans with blue hi bright leds, here is the closed hood with lights on.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Afsal

Does this hood come with the perspex to cover the tubes ???

Yes I am trying to keep the perspex so I have added two spall pc fans in the tube area one blow other sucks.

[Tom]

This took the whole day! Eish I am getting slow anyway the small fans are noisy so one has a stuffed bearing will get pc led fans and pimp the hood full time haha!

[Mekaeel]

looks pretty good tom!

[Kanga]

hey timbob, ur brain is ready and waiting

[DragonReef]

Excellent work Tom. Love seeing how far apart something can be stripped
Bummer about the noisy fan.

[Tom]

Thanks Guys! Eish its been difficult working without my brain Kanga LOL
Anyway for the supply I am using a HP printer supply, finally a use for all these scrap printers. The volts were a tad high so i put the fans in series and the grumpy one has calmed down .
I ran the hood without fans for a hour and when I put the fans on the air temp was 35 deg C Aargh! so I need them fans.

[Tom]

The reaction of the corals has been immediate check out the one on the left and the frogspawn:

[Kanga]

your corals are going to love you

[Tom]

All I need now is for them Nitrates to come down still at 20 ppm.