Baroness Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Hi, Ive been absent a while and my tank has been packed away. Now Ive set it up again, and the light hood is blown. The tank is a Juwel Rio 180. I bought light hood and it stopped working, returrned it, got a replacement which also stopped working.... I faffed around too much and now the light hood is outside of warranty, so it cant be replaced. Im looking at buying another lighthood ($240 + shipping) OR replacing the ballast in my lighthood... seems to be a common problem in the Juwels...theres a tutorial online how to replace....The light is a sealed unit and cant be taken apart easily, needs to be cut open and glued back up....I havent costed the price of replacement ballast yet, but replacement tubes are $60 each. sigh. OR using the existing unit and running LED strip lights inside....again I havent costed, but have read you need to spend more for a better result OR retrofitting the existing lighthood to run T5 LED tubes.... initial cost might be around $120? from a quick search, but tubes are cheaper, cheaper to run and need less replacement....I dont know what type of light tube I need to run either??? Im running the Rio 180 on the standard filter it came with as a coldwater setup. I want to have a planted tank with a school of WCMM. My husband is Mr. Fix it and is quite happy to build, wire up whatever is the best solution. Basically I want the cheapest, easiest solution, haha.... my hubby is not happy about the $$$ spent on the original light hood for it to cark it after 3 months and the same for the second one. Another option I was contemplating was a different light hood made to fit on the Juwel lid. Any help appreciated.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroness Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Well scratch that post and the hours of research I did into different light systems... I found an article on Juwel lights saying how they wont work if one tube is blown, so I took the bulbs out, and the endcaps off, and decided to interchange all my bulbs ( I have 4) to see if it was just a blown bulb. replacing the 2 bulbs I had first to try them, and bugga me, the friggen thing just lit up!!!! I have tryed and tryed to get that blimmen thing to go with no luck.....and then it just starts. I very carefully removed the bulbs - to put the end caps back on, reassembled it all and BINGO!!! a Juwel lighthood that works. YAY!! Hubby will be pleased, now I only have to buy expensive replacement Juwel tubes LOL. Sorry to waste your time if you read all this. :facepalm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 A bit of light entertainment on a rainy afternoon :smln: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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