Sludig
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I have a big 300gallon salt tank up and running. Ended up with a hood when I wasn't going to. Basically enclosed except for a 8 inch strip along the back wall of it. (Thing is 6x3x1 roughly) Then theres 2 strips of open air along the top but are only 2 or 2.5 inches wide roughly.
I dont really have heat issues with the water, it's more for keeping the 8bulb T5 and ballasts cooler. Cutting big squares in the side and mounting big fans there is not a possibility. (That and some reefers seem to have found the cooling peters out by the middle of the bulb creating uneven aging of the specialty reef bulbs phosphor coating) Currently I just have a big tall/narrow floor fan on top blowing and it's really loud, jiggles the aluminum reflectors etc, and more importantly I have to manually turn on since on a timer, it needs a button press to turn on, no rocker switch)
Electricity is devil voodoo to me. Without having to twist a bunch of wiring together with a million wire nuts. would it be easy to make a long row of PC fans that runs on preferably one power supply and possibly on a potentiometer? Since gap so small though I assume a 120mm fan would be too big right? be blowing against the hood it's sitting on basically? Also, I'm trying to maintain the fans as quiet as possible, so I was looking at Noctua's, but at $20/per 120mm fan and trying to span 6 feet......
Know any quiet but still more than a mouse fart output fans that are daisy chainable easily ideally with basically plug and play going to a power source and dimmer for speed? I figured just the center strip to run them across. Not sure if I'll need them edge to edge, or really if say like 6-8 spaced out would be plenty.
I dont really have heat issues with the water, it's more for keeping the 8bulb T5 and ballasts cooler. Cutting big squares in the side and mounting big fans there is not a possibility. (That and some reefers seem to have found the cooling peters out by the middle of the bulb creating uneven aging of the specialty reef bulbs phosphor coating) Currently I just have a big tall/narrow floor fan on top blowing and it's really loud, jiggles the aluminum reflectors etc, and more importantly I have to manually turn on since on a timer, it needs a button press to turn on, no rocker switch)
Electricity is devil voodoo to me. Without having to twist a bunch of wiring together with a million wire nuts. would it be easy to make a long row of PC fans that runs on preferably one power supply and possibly on a potentiometer? Since gap so small though I assume a 120mm fan would be too big right? be blowing against the hood it's sitting on basically? Also, I'm trying to maintain the fans as quiet as possible, so I was looking at Noctua's, but at $20/per 120mm fan and trying to span 6 feet......
Know any quiet but still more than a mouse fart output fans that are daisy chainable easily ideally with basically plug and play going to a power source and dimmer for speed? I figured just the center strip to run them across. Not sure if I'll need them edge to edge, or really if say like 6-8 spaced out would be plenty.
The MH's would give ya amazing light shimmer and coral growth.
