Lights! BioCube 14 lighting upgrade

Well, I spent some quality time with my BioCube 14 hood, and installed the Nanotuners 3.24 lighting upgrade. I don’t consider my self very handy, but sometimes I surprise myself. I was able to confidently cut wires and remove things without too much hassle. In the end, it all works, and I was uninjured, except for a small cut on my thumb…a battle-scar, if you will.

Alright, here is photographic evidence. First, I assembled my weapons:

Here is the opponent, a stock BioCube 14 hood. It only has a wee 48 watts of light.

With a bit of a struggle, I gutted it. Here are its exposed entrails.

At long last, I was able to tame the beast. Here it sits, calmly with 72 watts of light

And just to prove that it works…