Profilux II plus aquarium controller

[MNSPS]

Matthias,

Will the firmware 3.00 be available by February? Also, could you give me any more details in regards to the new dosing funtionality included in the 3.00 release?

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Chris

[bullit67]

Jason

If it was the programing the LED indicator would not go out it would stay on to indicate that the outlet still has power I dont know about every one else but on mine the LED goes out. am sure we will come up with a solution sooner or later

Doug

[niloc16]

the led goes out on mine as well even though the lighting is still on. so it cant be a programming issue because the controller has sent a signal to the powerbar which opens the relay and turns off the led. when i do fix it, i can hear the relay close again. it has happened with metal halides and t5's. i've heard today that when other controllers first came out and released in north america there was similiar issues with the power bars. i'm assuming it has something to do with the conversion to 110v

[Matthias Gross]

let's summarize:
bullit67: the LED and socket work simultanesly, but they don't do what you expected. Maybe the wrong settings. If you can't solve this you can send me your configuration files (save Profilux's config with ProfiLuxControl), tell me what exactly you want to do and what the problem is. I'll have a look onto your settings and find the problem.
niloc16: LED and socket don't work simultanesly - we have an inrush current problem.
I had a discussion with an engineer of the manufacturer of the relays. He told me that the relays have the best available contact material for switching high currents. The limit is 120A for 20ms. If this is exceeded the contacts become to hot while switching, the contacts glue together. Because USA/CD only have 110V the currents are usually 2 times higher than in Europe, so an overload condition can be reached faster.
Devices with high inrush-currents are: Transformers, ballasts, switching power supplies, large electro motors. Good devices usuallay have an inrush-limiter included to protect switches or fuses of the power supply. But some of them do not - and they could cause this trouble.
Solution:
1. if possible use inrush current limiters (so called ILC) for your application when there are problems
2. I decided to ship the next generation of powerbars (the digital ones) with buil-in ICLs. Four channels will be protected (disadvantage of them: 8A permanent current), 2 channels will have full 15A and are not protected.
The powerbars have been redesigned, production starts today.

[Matthias Gross]

@mnsps:
The firmware will be available this month, the new ProfiLux shipped to Proline will allready have the 3.00

Firmware 3.00 will have some new controlling features.
Besides the standard controlling mode (switching with hysteresis) we added new modes. Now are proportional controllers available with adjustable pulse/pause times.
It is too much and too complicated to explain this detailled here so please have a look to the new manual - we added some pages in it! The translation will be available soon, i will post when the download is possible.

[niloc16]

so can we trade in our old power bars for the new ones? i apologize for not knowing electrical theory well but if these new bars with ILC will only carry 8A each continous will that still power 400w halides? why is it a disadvantage to only have 8A per outlet?

[Matthias Gross]

Colin, the 400W halide has a current of app. 400W/110V = 3.7A, let's say 4A.
->That is no problem.
I am not sure if it is a disadvantage, maybe someone wants to connect heaters with 10A or more? But for this purpose there are still the 15A non-protected outputs.

[support@proline]

Well
I just got off the phone with Matthias,We have a solution everyone will be extremly happy with.
For all the existing Profilux owners we will exchange one of their bars to the new 6 socket powerbars you will get a full credit for the powerbar you are returning ,The only cost to you will be the price difference of the the 6D & 4D powerbars .
What this will do for you
1- you will have the digital bar that enables you to chain more bars to it
2- ICL in the bar will fix the current issue with the use of MH on curent bars
3- More features
All the new units sold will come with a 4d & a 6d bar instead of 2x 4d bars
Once again thanks to matthias for great service .
Please visit the store you purchased your unit from for details.
I will make a post here as soon as the new shipment lands ,I was told it be in 3 weeks (Hi Matthias )
Also more to come soon ,Leak detector ,Disolved oxygen card ,
Disolved oxygen & Ph combo card ,disolved oxygen Probe
Of course we are working on the Dimmable ballast as we speak ,this will be offered in DIY kits & fixtures very soon.
Jason

[niloc16]

thank you very much matthias and jason. that is customer service if i do say so myself.

[support@proline]

You are still up colin
hay leave the tank alone ,I know you are fiddling with something in there right now .
That's what happens when you set up a new tank ,hand in water all the time syndrome ,at least for me for the first 6 months of each tank until I can't think of changing anything or a new piece of equipment comes out that I can use.
Good night bud