Kessil

Using Acrylic for T5/LED Canopy

Hello,

I am thinking about using Acrylic to build a canopy for my aquatic life 48" T5/LED Hybrid

Do you think the acrylic would be okay with the heat from the lights?
 
Turn it on for a while, then touch various parts, if it's hot to the touch I wouldn't directly have acrylic touching that part. Whatever you do I wouldn't completely enclose it though, let your lights breathe. If you're just doing a trim around it that's fine, if you're sealing it up, I would put some sort of active cooling in.
 
Would just be a trim around it and the top of the canopy would still be open.

I'd have to get the canopy custom ordered so I don't know if it would work unless I actually ordered it and took the plunge
 
And this physically attaches to your lighting fixture? Again do the touch test, if memory serves those fixtures have a framing around the whole thing, so shouldn't get that hot, so probably would work just fine.
 
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