@Jolly Green Giant - Some more tech savvy friends who don't have experience with lighting but lots with computers have said similar. My brain just really wants to be sure I know how far I can safely push it. @majorana - Exactly! I'm surprised they were being thrown away. Copper heatsinks are hard to...

A few months back I lucked into some old CPU heatsinks. I found them in the proverbial University Science department hallway box. I think they are the old iteration of the Cooler Master X Dream K640. I say old because they're copper not aluminum. IMG_20171230_152918.jpg The heatsinks in question The...

Hello LEDGardners! I've grown a wide array of photosynthetic critters (coral/algae/plants) using LEDs/T5HOs/MH/HPS over the years and have always wanted to get more into building my own fixtures rather than simply utilizing prefabs. Being biology focused in my education has meant I've never quite ha...