Profilux II plus aquarium controller

[bullit67]

Thanks for the reply Jason Dont get me wrong this unit is top quality just giving you some feed back. I already have a prototype made up for a rack to hold all the probes I understand they are very high quality but if someone that isant a do it yourselfer might have a hard time making something. Nice to hear that they are coming out with a power bar that can be dasiy chained instead of taking up a slot if they are looking at doing bluetooth for sensors in the future then we wont need any more slots

Doug

[niloc16]

i agree with doug, i'm not putting the unit down, just stating some issues i've seen so far so people have a heads up. one thing that i absolutely love is the amount of back up safety features there is in this unit. for example overheating, you can setup the unit for parameters of your heaters to turn off at a certain temperature, if that temp is breached then you can program dimmable lighting to be reduced a certain percentage per .5 degrees increase that the temperature climbs and then eventually turn all lighting off to further reduce heat or without dimmable lighting you can have it turn halides off one a time. i mean if you had a chiller the unit would also turn it on to reduce temperature but if you dont this are just a few of options you have, in addition they have fans that can be controlled by this unit that are variable speed and depending on the temperature increase the controller will increase the fan speed. i seen these fan units and they are gorgeous, and the most quiet fans i've ever heard. i'll be getting a 4 fan unit in a couple months i think once i get the controller setup. this unit can also to an extent control the ph of tank. if the ph decreases to much it will cut of co2 to your reactor if you have an electric solenoid attached to your co2 regulator.

question though jason, will one powerbar handle 2 400w metal halide or will a fuse blow in the powerbar, i heard that it will only handle one halide unit each. i'm going to run 3 400w and i was thinking of splitting them up onto seperate circuits but if i dont have to then i will run 2 off one powerbar. until i get another powerbar.

[SuperFudge]

Merry Christmas you reefgeeks !

Colin, yes the power bar will run as many halides as you have sockets, but just cant exceed the 1500 w rating in total.

You cant however, exceed 400w of halide per outlet, this will blow the internal fuse for that individual socket.
In my case i had 6 halides, 4 PC`s, and Led`s...so i had run a powerbar off of one of the outlets from the profilux, and tried to have more than one halide kick on with the use of one outlet...this was popping the fuses, this confused me becuase i wasnt running more than the 1500w total.

I asked Mattias (profilux designer) at Macna about this, and he said on any other type of light it is ok to exceed the 400w per outlet, such as t-5 or pc...but since the coil in halides actually draw way more than that on startup, its too hard on the internal fuse todeal with that power draw all at once.

Marc.

[niloc16]

merry xmas to you to marc,

thanks for the info. i've been trying to get the computer to communicate with the controller wirelessly for about 5 hours last night, and i must say it almost turned into a frizbee. i cant get it to work. when i use the serial cable it came with it works great, but with the WLAN, no chance. the computer states there is no device found. i'm going to attempt to try it again today but there may be a cheap controller for sale tonight. just kidding. i just hate fighting with computers.

[SuperFudge]

Originally Posted by niloc16

merry xmas to you to marc,

thanks for the info. i've been trying to get the computer to communicate with the controller wirelessly for about 5 hours last night, and i must say it almost turned into a frizbee. i cant get it to work. when i use the serial cable it came with it works great, but with the WLAN, no chance. the computer states there is no device found. i'm going to attempt to try it again today but there may be a cheap controller for sale tonight. just kidding. i just hate fighting with computers.

Wouldnt happen to be a Linksis wireless router would it ?

[bullit67]

Colin

You do have a wireless network set up in your house From what I understand you need to have a wireless network up and running it wont go directly to your wireless computer it needs a router to work.

Just incase you didnt know

Then again I could be wrong as I have a LAN card and I beleive it needs to be conected to a router

Merry Christmas

Doug

[niloc16]

it is not a linksys router. i have a wireless network going already. i was trying again for about an hour, and no luck again. thanks though