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Old December 18, 2012   #14
checkerkitty
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Thanks for all the info everyone! I pulled out my light fixtures yesterday and only one is working. Off to the Habitat Home store and Lowes I go today. For those of you interested in LEDs, look at ebay if you like DIY. We have saltwater fish tanks at home. My tank is lit by LEDs only. DH built the fixture himself. Emitters and drivers are readily available. We just got a shipment of replacement emitters in about a week ago. I will say this about LEDs. Don't let them get too hot! When DH built my light fixture, we asked our local guy we bought our first emitters from about cooling them with a fan. He told us we didn't need one, just the heat sink was enough. Not true. We lost several emitters. We put a small computer fan in the back of the fixture to blow across the emitters and heat sinks and haven't had a problem since. Maybe someday I'll get him to build me an LED plant fixture.
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