I'm going to piece it together, only to match what I want to hook up.

Thanks for input. It pretty much matched what I was thinking. I work with electronics everyday and it will be a piece of cake to connect this controller :)

As for all the cables I need, that answered it pretty well. So it looks like (1)Tunze 1 and (1) Tunze 2 cables, (2) YL2-1 Spliters, and (1) EVG-AP-2F.

Since I still have a bunch of other expenses in order to get the tank running, these items will take me a long ways. Once I get the equipment withdrawl, I may take a stab at getting some more goodies for it. Thanks for the help! I hope this will help others when researching the Profilux II.

-Michael

Well To answer everyones question ,Yes we did get our first batch of the DIMMABLE T5 2X 54W BALLAST in last week ,they do work great with the controller ,we have been testing the same ballast for almost 4 months here being dimmed with profilux using different bulbs & no problems ,runs great & good PF as well.
OF COURSE THEY EVAPORATED OUT OF OUR WAREHOUSE BEFORE THE SHIPMENT WAS RECEIVED:twised: :twised:
The next shipment will be next friday ,probably in stores the following week.
So please check with your LFS if you really like to have one from this shipment ,we will be a bit short on supply because of all the exsisting Back orders ,till 3rd week of september when we are expecting a major shipment & all back orders will be fullfilled before then.
We are working to bring in some fixtures with dimming capabilities using the same ballast as well in the near future.
Regards
Proline

Already got our Pre order in with you jason :lol: :lol: :biggrin: :biggrin:

If the UK is anything to go by our experience is these babies grow running legs fast!!!

Look forward to getting my stock soon!

Michael - Glad i could help, and in your case I would advise just ordering what you want and not one of the kits it will give you the flexibility you require.

Let us know if you need more help.

Michael
www.aqua-digital.com

Which ballast's are these? Direct from GHL? I would be interested in how much they cost :mrgreen:

Also, I had another question:

What is the difference between the EVG-AP2 and the PLM-2L4S? :wink:

Hi

I am waiting for pricing right now, until landed we do not know the full cost of the units. Yes direct from GHL I believe.

The PLM card is an expansion card for the interface to plug into, this just gives you an extra L port and S port. You still require the EVG card

Cheers
Michael

Hi Mathias,

Can the GHL-Profilux Splitter For Two Level Sensors be used with a Float level sensor and a Optical level sensor ?

Or is it only for the 2 Float level sensors ?

Thanks,
Ginzo

I am trying to program my controller without my new tank . i use to have AQ and this is something new for me, i hope i will not sound silly
i got a seconf PH module to control my CA RX. In my old AQ I use to have settings :
If PH<6.4 then CO2 ON
If PH>6,5 then CO2 OFF
How can I program something like this in Profilux?

thankx,Mike

Hiya

You will find this in the pH control screen of the profilux pc software, i am assuming you are accessing the ProfiLux from your pc?

You then set the corresponding modes in this screen

For example you would set the maintained reading to 6.5 with a hysterix of 0.1 and set to switch on when the reading goes high.

I will try and find some screen shots for you, but please can you confirm you are viewing the settings via a pc, this will help in giving you advise.

Regards
Michael
www.aqua-digital.com

Hi MIchael.
thankx for your respond. I do control it from my PC via rs cable. I am trying to use LAN module but i canot conected .
Wireless comp----router-----profilux....this conection dosnot work.



mike

What firmware version are you running? You should be running V3.03 - Do you have an rs232 port on the back of your pc?

Regards
Michael
ww.aqua-digital.com

yes, i am
I did upgrade last nite..I went thrue LAn-tutorial step by step. No problem with RS cable connection,but LAn is the problem..

If you send a pm to matthias he will have you up and running in no time with LAN, this is one area I am still learning myself but will be fully clued up in the next week.

In the meantime drop matthias a pm and i am sure all will connect. You will find his posts here if you scroll back

Regards
Michael
www.aqua-digital.com

Thankx Michael
i will do so......
i am going to work on it a litlle more...This is still very new for me:))


mike

Hi Matthias,

Ok, I need your help, I don't understand the following:

I have both the float sensor and the optical sensor. Both of them are connected to the Y-splitter. Both of them are positioned in my sump and my desire if to switch off Water 1 (Eheim pump) if one of them registers that the nominal level is attained.

If I set the Profilux to the Operation Mode: 2 independent adjustment cycles, I see that both sensors work, since the optical sensor = Water 1 and the float sensor = Water 2 and when I trigger either one of them (nominal value attained), they both do what they should do: cut the power to the associated socket.

Only problem, is that I want both of them to control the socket outlet Water 1. How can I do this ???? It's pretty much useless if I can only control Water 1 and Water 2..since how am I going to turn off my Eheim pump (that is on outlet Water1) ???

Can you please help !

Thanks !
Ginzo

This is not possible with this firmware.

But: We will have programmable logic in ProfiLux very soon!
That means anyone can create his own logical expressions with AND, OR, NOT and so on -> any function can be realized.
Please wait some days.

Boolian logic is a GREAT addition.

Thanks, Matthias. :biggrin:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2...ngprofilux.jpg

I have a couple of questions regarding the diagram.

Does U-shape drawing on the lamp mean I should use a jumper wire or why do 4-5, 6-7, etc. cross-over at the bulb they way it's shown?

And for connection 2, see how it goes off to the left and form a dot - does that just mean I should splice it with wire # 1?

Last question, while the dimmable interface has a grounding wire slot that requires a grounding wire from the ballast - the ballast itself has no slot for a ground wire connection. Should I just leave it empty?

Terminal 1 needs to be bugged together as indicated by the black dot from bulb one to bulb two. Look at the picture two dimentional, those black lines go into the stand offs as you would be looking at them from the top down.

4.5.6.7 go to the respective areas in the standoff

By All means Ground the Ballast, run the ground from the ballast to ground on the to the ground for the Power. In Other words you need to ground the ballasts at the anchor point where you fasten them. Pay attention to your local electrical codes. you may not be allowed to do it this way. When In Doubt, Contact a Local electritian.

New firmware & ProfiLuxControl 3.04
 

Hi all,

here it is: new version 3.04
- supports automatic IPs
- new modes for levelcontrol
- supports card PLM-Oxygen

these are the links:
http://www.ghl-kl.de/Produkte/Aquari...rolII_V304.exe
http://www.ghl-kl.de/Produkte/Aquari...I_V304BETA.zip

Don't forget to save your settings before updating.
Please keep in mind: This is still a beta version! If you have problems after the update:
Please inform us; if neccessary make a downgrade to 3.03

Let's test

Next update is coming soon.

Matthias,

FYI, After the firmware and Program Update evrything shuts off, all Data saved is not compatible and you get errors trying to load, anyways, you can force the data upload , but now all my light are out , and now i am reverting back to 3.03

3.04
 

I udated to 3.04. Yes, everything shuts off and it reverts back to the factory defaults. You have to save your settings and then upload them into the controller. If you didn't -- I didn't, so I know -- you have to reprogram all your settings into the 3.04.

Not bad; it's like checking everything for no reason -- LOL.

So far it's working fine. Although I still can't get my WLAN online. I'll keep pluggin'

Fishie

Well, My Lan was working flawless, Now the 3.04 will see the Profilux, but will not connect to it, reverting back to 3.03 does not help either, everything was backed up before the upgrade. Hope that Upgrade did not blow out the Lan card..., I have seen that happen before.

Thank Heavens for a Serial port connection yet, that seems to be OK, Going to have to figure this out, Got to love the Remeber this is a Beta version Disclaimer :)

Amp,

thank you for your feedback. After the update ProfiLux restores the factory settings. This is normal and no problem. After that you have to load the sensor data and the settings you saved before the update back to ProfiLux.
A warning occurs before you load the settings back to ProfiLux because the firmware changed - that can be ignored.
I updated here all ProfiLux without any problem.

Matthias,

Yes that would be correct, I was able to re establish a connection after stopping the profilux, then re booting, For some odd reason the IP search was seeing the unit but refused to connect.

After a hard restart it connected with no problems, I was always one to beta programs, always kept an original on my Lap top just in case :)

Thanks for all your hard work on a very cost effective unit.

Tony_P

I am not able to connect via WLAN to my Profilux. I just upgraded software/firmware to 3.04, the network sees it, the Control software sees it ... but it won't complete the connection. I have rebooted both my PC and the Profilux Comp and it isn't coming online.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Are you running VISTA by any chance?

good luck getting WLAN to work. its a major pain in the @#$

This pain in the @@@ is about to end, a birdie tels me V5 will have plug and play capabilites, mainly due to Vista and its hidden securities!!

maybe Matthias can grace us with a bit more info on here after the weekend

no .... but here is the story...

I got profilux months ago and hooked up wireless from my XP desktop no problem at all...

then I bought a laptop with Visa... tried to connect ... no problem! Awesome....

BUT suddenly I came home one day and none of my machines had internet and I couldn't connect to the profilux. I checked router and all of the security was put on (I have it off).... so I redid all that. I think Vista may have reconfigured the router? Anyway....

Still using 3.02 at this time, I put everything back to normal, I made an ad hoc connection and redid everything. Again I could get in to the WLAN card and make changes no problem. The control software would not connect though. Port 10001.....

So I decided to upgrade to the new software and new firmware. No problem. Now the control software see's the controller but won't make the connection...

Please advise,

but for the average person hooking up WLAN is next to impossible. it seems easy to developers and people who are good at computers but for the basic hobbyist good bloody luck. i have had it for a year and still no luck, i gave up wasting my time months ago and until i start hearing on here that people are having huge success with doing so i'm not trying again. just my 2 bits

oh ... i'm sorry I was only saying "no" to running Windows Vista....

I am fairly handy with computers and I STILL feel that it is way to difficult to setup. You can see that GHL agrees by the changes they have made to the software and the firmware. This is something very good to see though!

Hopefully you will get yours up and running soon.

Regards,

Vista - no thanks!

At Macna i setup some PCs and ProfiLux. Usually it was done in 2-3 minutes.
Under Vista it was about 10 minutes. All the settings you need are hidden in some confusing menus of Vista. And Vista restores old settings or changes settings you have done some seconds before. It's unbelievable with Vista. I removed Vista on all our PCs here, we only use XP Professional until Vista works in an expectable way.

@mediaone:
Maybe Vista made some security updates or changed the firewall settings?
For testing: Deactivate the firewall (if Vista allows you to do this)
Another idea: If you selected "obtain IP automatically" you must have activated something like "DHCP-server" in your router.

@Niloc: I know at least 5 persons got their WLAN running (in this and the other forum)...

We want to improve the ProfiLuxControl again in some weeks. We can't do much more than we did recently but there are still some things we could make easier for the user.
But to be honest: Without a minimum knowledge about the network and the PCs at home (firewall, WLAN-security) it is not an easy job.

Matthias,

I have the router DHCP correctly setup and the WLan card in the profilux is set to obtain the IP automatically. I can see that the Profilux is able to acquire an IP from the router by watching the client list inside the router. The control software even finds the IP address, but it will not connect.

I have Windows Vista on my laptop (which worked last week with no settings changes!) and I have Win XP Pro on my desktop. I am unable to connect with either at this time despite all security turned off (both machines!) - even the firewall in my router is disconnected at this time.

I have knowledge about all of the attributes/settings required to complete this connection - it simply is not working! I'm not saying i'm perfect or not missing anything ... but I should be able to get this running! I don't get why it won't work now ... any other ideas?

I had this setup no problem in the past so it can't be that my hardware isn't compatible or anything like that. The rest of my network is functioning normally.

Please advise,

If ProfiLuxControl finds the card but isn't able to communicate with ProfiLux these are possible reasons:
- port 10001 is blocked (in windows or in the router) - for searching the card another port is used!
- an other port than 10001 is selected in WLAN card or ProfiLuxControl
- the baudrate in ProfiLux (only adjustable over the frontpanel of ProfiLux) is different to the baudrate in the WLAN card (only adjustable over the lantronix web configuration site) (recommendation: 9600 on both sides)
- the WLAN is not plugged in completely
- worst case: card and/or ProfiLux is defective - but this never happened until now

Thank you for the reply.

1) My router security is off including all port blocking.
2) The port information is interesting. How can I change the port that the WLAN card is using. I never set it to use port 10001. I never saw that in the tutorial guide or anything like that (or I read over it). Where can I change it?
3) I double checked that the WLAN is plugged in securely.

Regards,

Tunze 6055
 

Hi there,

I've got a Tunze 6055 hooked up to my profilux and was wondering who else had Tunze's connected? I am curious as to "safe" settings on the current page. I'm worried about things like too short duration or if the "right angled wave" setting will damage the pump.

Thanks

Great thread. I nearly has read all thing and it seems to be the best Aquarium computer now

The GHL definately covers all things that the modern fish keeper requires and reliably for sure.

Wrang did you email us? As we received an email from Sweden asking for advise but no email was left on the contact form to get back to you.

Yes it was from me :lol: :redface:
It wonder if you sending to Sweden. I haved looked around and find you have the best price just now