Top Fin LED hood.

[FreshyFresh]

I just opened and assembled the LED hood that came with my Petsmart Top Fin 29 gal kit. Ugh.. I dunno. It's about as substantial as a soda bottle.

The strand of 7 LED pods snaps into pockets on the underside of the hood and the kit comes with a plug in power adapter with an on/off rocker switch.

It is blindingly bright when I fired it up though..

Joel

 

[cpetrosky]

leds apear brighter because its point source light. any idea on the total wattage in there?

 

[TL1000RSquid]

Yeah try to find the wattage if you can. As far as flimsiness Top Fin isn't exactly high quality, there glass aquariums are good enough quality but I don't much care for most of their other products. Looks like they really limit you on the size of a filter you can stick on the tank too with that cover.

 

[Rbishop]

:clap: another reason to stay away from Top Fin...

 

[FreshyFresh]

:clap: another reason to stay away from Top Fin...

True dat!

I knew going into it that it wasn't going to be high-end stuff at ~$100 for all. It gives me a starting point. Least expensive for piecing together those components would be more like $150ish

IMO, after stopping at Petco today, their low end and kit stuff looked better than Petsmart's :irked:

Joel

 

[FreshyFresh]

leds apear brighter because its point source light. any idea on the total wattage in there?

The only wattage rating I see on the whole rig is on the box for the power supply. Along with the 120/240V, a fraction of an Amp, it says 6 Watts. Dunno if my math is anywhere near correct, but if it was 6 watts total, each of the 21 LEDs would be less than 1/3 of a watt (0.28).

Joel

 

[TL1000RSquid]

The only wattage rating I see on the whole rig is on the box for the power supply. Along with the 120/240V, a fraction of an Amp, it says 6 Watts. Dunno if my math is anywhere near correct, but if it was 6 watts total, each of the 21 LEDs would be less than 1/3 of a watt (0.28).

Joel

Sounds about right the lower end marineland led's are like 0.3 each as well. Fine for keeping fish but you'll have trouble with live plants.

 

[dbosman]

Each emitter is .3 watts. Each small strip is just under 1 watt. Great fish tank light.