Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
D.I.Y lighting unit
would you not consider adding in some LED bars..? I think you would have to dismantle your Juwel T5 light bar to add in a second switch for independant control of the 2 bulbs which could look unsightly and also be dangerous,have a look on ebay for ledstrips,which you can have on a seperate timer for moonlight phases ect.I've got some my self which I plan to use but the light bars are about 1mtr long and may need some work on them to get them to fit in I'll let you know how I get on with it all...
Lar
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As its Juwel I believe the switch will currently be between the mains plug and the light housing.
As the electricity is coming from the mains there needs to be a transformer to change it to the correct voltage and current. The transformer is in the light housing. So you've got something like this;
/-------- Bulb
main ----- switch ----- transformer
\-------- BulbTo control the bulbs individually you'd need the switchs for the bulbs to be between the transformer and the bulbs.
Entirely possible but you'll need to be comfortable with hacking your light unit apart and cutting cables and maybe soldering things together.
If you're comfortable with that I'd say give it a go
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