Picture from today. I cleaned it Thursday, 4 days ago, and the screen was near "new" looking when I cleaned it. This screen is maturing much faster than my first ATS screens did. 
Ace's ATS Build
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Todays picture, day 16 and cleaned 5 days ago.
My next big project, replacing my controller and LED drivers.
My next big project, replacing my controller and LED drivers.
Day 18, 3rd cleaning, last cleaned 7 days ago. After cleaning there was a really good base of green algae left on the screen, first time for that on this screen. First 2 cleanings wiped off all the slime and it looked near new again.
Side 1
Side 2
Side 1
Side 2
You reached the second phase fairly soon. Should start seeing brown turf shortly, if it is anywhere in the system.
When I designed my main LED light I bought 2 sets of drivers, 4 of the D models and 4 of the PWM models. This was because I knew I wasn't going to get the PWM part setup as quickly as the LED light itself and I wanted to use the LED light.. now that I am finally getting back to my PWM controller I can swap out my D drivers for P drivers. I don't think I will be selling my D drivers though.. they are still good drivers and I have more LED projects in mind where I can use the D drivers. I would like to do 2 D drivers on my sump LED light instead of 1 constant current driver so I can add more LEDs, some colored blue and red ones, to see how those do on an ATS. My design now with the LEDs on the ATS was to get a good baseline so I knew what white LEDs could do. With the D drivers I can bump up the total # of LEDs up to 12 per side, multiple colors, and dimmer control because I think 12 LEDs per side at full power on my screen would be way overkill, but I think I may need 12 LEDs overall if I go with multiple colors in order to get good coverage with the colors.
Here is the screen at day 34 right before cleaning. Next week I plan on adding 4 more LEDs to each side in between the whites, 2 royal blue and 2 660nm reds, and running each side off their own 700ma driver. Right now it is running on a 1050ma driver. I am thinking by adding 4 more good LEDs to each side I can drop the current down to 700 to give the LEDs more life.
And here is a picture of the covers/fans for my LED lights.
And here is a picture of the covers/fans for my LED lights.
I ordered some 660nm Red LEDs from RapidLED and got my them in today.. I decided to put 2 royal blues on one side to see if it makes any difference. So one side is 3 Warm white, 3 neutral white, and 4 660nm reds, other side is 2 warm, 2 neutral, 2 royal blue, and 4 reds. Running 10 LEDs per side now, 2 drivers, both 700mA constant current meanwell drivers.
Thought this pic looked cool, camera couldn't focus good on the lights and this is how one picture came out
Thought this pic looked cool, camera couldn't focus good on the lights and this is how one picture came out
