How to hang a led on my 45 corner bow

[phillipj2]

So i got my new led's from another reefer and relized 1 is plenty. My tank is a little unusual so making stuff work is a pain. here's a pic so you can get the idea. I'm not creative enough to make this work. Any ideas i would like it to look neat.Its a 12" chinese fixture.

 

[cdrewferd]

Either a hanging kit from the ceiling, a bracket coming out from the wall, or some type of pipe hanger attached to the stand. Depends on the look you are going for.


Drew

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[phillipj2]

Oh yea let me add i have 25' ceilings. Were would i get a pipe hanger. Bracket off the wall can u explain.

 

[Boogie]

easiest would be a piece of conduit from home depot. Can connect it to the stand with some u brackets, have it come up and then bend at a 90 degree angle. spray paint it black or leave it unfinished imo.

 

[phillipj2]

Conduit u can bend that?

 

[Boogie]

yup. i made home depot do it for me with one of their manual bender tools so I didn't have to buy it. I have some pics of it on here somewhere and I know Gabe (denvercherub) did he same on his recent build.

 

[cdrewferd]

Yep, could even have them bend it I believe. Get a 10' piece and have them bend a 90 about 3' from on end. Then you can trim to fit.


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[phillipj2]

Mark seems like you know what your doing want to give a hand. i supply beer.

 

[Boogie]

http://www.marinecolorado.org/forum...-custom-stand-heater-circ-pump-and-hob-100.00

found the pic of mine.

Yup. I can. (don't drink though) but will gladly lend a hand if needed.

BUT don't ever accuse me of knowing what I'm doing....I fumble my way through, sometimes to a point of completion even.

 

[phillipj2]

looks good i think my tank is a little tougher to figure out because of the shape. Mark text me when your available. 7203439227

 

[Cherub]

just look at my build, use those poles

 

[phillipj2]

Thats conduit too? looks good and not that difficult.

 

[Cake_Boss]

You can get HD to bend for you? How did you swing that? I'm struggling with connectors and pre-bent pieces because Lowes and HD said no. Can I just use a bender in the store?

 

[Boogie]

it is and its not. lol. i measured from my floor to how high i wanted the pole to be. Then i measured how far over the tank I wanted to go. Had them bend the pole to equal height, then had them trim the end to length. I then went over and bought a rubber end from their hardware section (same thing you would slide over the end of a chair to keep it from scratching the floor) to cover the cut ends.

 

[Bajamike]

Throwing this out there for you this is how I did mine Got my LED's and time for a canopy build and light hanger.

 

[phillipj2]

Looks awesome if only my ceilings weren't 25' high.

 

[Bajamike]

Looks awesome if only my ceilings weren't 25' high.

Ah come on 18' of pipe and your kids can swing from it.

 

[projectx]

you can get one of those shelf mounting brackets, use the inter locking arms and have it adjustable. Something like this
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-25e...helf mount&storeId=10051&superSkuId=203147695

 

[Cherub]

Thats conduit too? looks good and not that difficult.

sorry for the late reply, it's just some pole I got out of the closet section. on straight pole then one curved corner piece. bolted it to the stand with a U shaped thing. forget the name, one on the bottom and one on the top. easy pie

 

[Cherub]

you can get one of those shelf mounting brackets, use the inter locking arms and have it adjustable. Something like this
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-25e...helf mount&storeId=10051&superSkuId=203147695

i did this and it ripped out of the wall lol. gotta get a pretty long one I guess. the closet pole bit was the easiest/cheapest I could find