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Subject: LEDs with tropical aquarium
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Hi folks,

One of the fluorescent tubes in my fish-tank light is on the blink.
Blink-blink-blinkety-blink. Again. Seems this happens every few
months. It may be because they run 16 hours a day and it's warm and
humid a few centimetres above a water of tropical tank. The holder has
a pair, and each tube is rated to approx 7500 hours.

Can any of you see a reason _not_ to replace this setup with a strip
of RGB LEDs tuned to approximate the spectral output of the tubes?
(Note, colour of these tubes is a little different to regular
household/factory tubes.)

Look-up "LED RGB SMD 5050" on eBay. Comes as a roll of stick-on
waterproof tape embedded with LEDs (including a power
control/regulator unit) for half the cost of one replacement tube.
These LEDs have more than 8 times the lifespan, use a fair bit less
power, and don't flicker.

Anyone tried it?
How waterproof is "waterproof" for this LED tape?
What were your experiences?

Cheers,
Damien
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Damien.W...@gmail.com