BeamsWork 6500K 48" LED fixture.

[FreshyFresh]

Got the light yesterday. Real nice fit on my 75g and is intensely bright w/ a great color tone. The power converter on mine is labeled as having a 15VDC output. It's a remote transformer setup w/ a blue indicator LED, much like a laptop or ink jet printer power cord, etc. It does feel hot, as does the aluminum chassis on the light. The top side of the light housing feels as hot as my Odyssea T5HO, where the Odyssea's transformer is cool as a cucumber. Not the best pic, but here's the tank lit up with the new 48" BeamsWorks 6500K LED, in an otherwise completely dark room.

 

[TL1000RSquid]

Looks good, do the beamworks come with a fan or is that optional? Might be worth picking up or DIY.

 

[FreshyFresh]

TL- the fixture is so thin, You'd have to get real creative on installing a fan. It would have to be some type of surface mount deal.

 

[Fish_Bone]

Looks just as bright as my led light I got from buildmyled. And from the picture, you are right about the coloration, looks good.

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[Hr0th9ar]

TL- the fixture is so thin, You'd have to get real creative on installing a fan. It would have to be some type of surface mount deal.

You should start looking here. http://www.newegg.com/Case-Fans/SubCategory/ID-573 Most fans are 25mm thick but they have a few 10mm and thinner fans like this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835119098

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[FreshyFresh]

Thanks. I just don't see where you'd cut a fan into one of these:

 

[Hr0th9ar]

Wow those are thin... It's it possible to remove the housing without wrecking it? If yes I'd find the hottest spot and cut my circle there. If not then screw it. You could also try using a cpu heatsink and fan but that would probably look pretty fugly.

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[ktrom13]

Or you could use a desktop fan and blow air over the whole surface area of the fixture.

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[FishFanMan]

can you leave your hand on it for 10 seconds and not be uncomfortably hot? if so, you probably don't need a fan. but if it's too hot, them these are what you need.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/111101858131?lpid=82

 

[ZorroNet]

Or you could use a desktop fan and blow air over the whole surface area of the fixture.

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I was just about to suggest the same thing... a little clip on fan just to blow across the top like a CPU fan blows across a heatsink would do the trick and extend the life of the LEDs.