Retrofitting a Jebo R119 lighting hood

Tom

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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:
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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.
 
Nice one Tom :D

Can you take a pic of the actual lamps ?
 
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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
Does this hood come with the perspex to cover the tubes ???
 
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.
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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!
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hey timbob, ur brain is ready and waiting
 
Excellent work Tom. Love seeing how far apart something can be stripped :lol:
Bummer about the noisy fan.
 
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.
 
The reaction of the corals has been immediate :) check out the one on the left and the frogspawn:
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your corals are going to love you
 
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