Profilux II plus aquarium controller

Matthias Gross · #1 06-09-2007, 09:19 AM

Regarding our dimmable LED-light bars:
They have blue and white LEDs for moonlight (great effect in combination with the moon phase program of ProfiLux), red LEDs to simulate sunset (the light is more red at morning and evening) and white high-power LEDs to create flashes. The LED-groups can be dimmed independently.
The length is about 60cm, diameter is 20mm. They have only a small wattage (2.5W) because they are only designed for effect-lighting and not for replacement of the MH or fluorescents.
One bar is usually ok to illuminate a tank of about 1.5m, for longer tanks i recommend to use more of them.
I don't want to tell some pseudo-scientific arguments for this light (as maybe some other manufacturers do for their products). I am not sure if there are confirmable benefits for the fishes or corals, but it just looks really good. Maybe someone will now complain that thunderstroms my drive the fishes crazy - but in nature they have them also.

Dimmable sockets
They can be used to supply dimmable devices (eg some pumps, heater, conventional lamps) with a variable voltage. Coming soon.

Giesemann
I don't know this lamp but they usually don't equip non dimmable lamps with dimmable ballasts. That means: The ballast must be replaced in the case you want dimm the fluorescents.

scoobyupnorth · #2 07-16-2007, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matthias Gross

Regarding our dimmable LED-light bars:
They have blue and white LEDs for moonlight (great effect in combination with the moon phase program of ProfiLux), red LEDs to simulate sunset (the light is more red at morning and evening) and white high-power LEDs to create flashes. The LED-groups can be dimmed independently.
The length is about 60cm, diameter is 20mm. They have only a small wattage (2.5W) because they are only designed for effect-lighting and not for replacement of the MH or fluorescents.
One bar is usually ok to illuminate a tank of about 1.5m, for longer tanks i recommend to use more of them.
I don't want to tell some pseudo-scientific arguments for this light (as maybe some other manufacturers do for their products). I am not sure if there are confirmable benefits for the fishes or corals, but it just looks really good. Maybe someone will now complain that thunderstroms my drive the fishes crazy - but in nature they have them also.

Dimmable sockets
They can be used to supply dimmable devices (eg some pumps, heater, conventional lamps) with a variable voltage. Coming soon.

Giesemann
I don't know this lamp but they usually don't equip non dimmable lamps with dimmable ballasts. That means: The ballast must be replaced in the case you want dimm the fluorescents.

Matthias a question please this is driving me & the fish mad. I have the LED spot-light attached to the Profilux, when all was first started all was OK, blue led dimming according to the moon phase but now for the last few weeks it is now a the red leds' that are dimming according to the moon phase. What have I programmed wrong please?

monitors_direct · #3 07-16-2007, 12:23 PM

If you can send your data files across to either myself or Matthias we can load them up and see what you have set up that is causing this for you

monitors_direct · #4 07-16-2007, 12:28 PM

Hi Gordon.

Hope this helps.

I as yet have not come across the wall bracket but can easily find out for you

The data charts are addressed I believe in the next firmware version, matthias should be able to answer this better. just drop him a pm

The combined salinity/redox card is a dual use expansion card. It gives you control and monitoring of salinity readings of your tank and also redox potential or otherwise known as ORP. The beauty of this card is that it only utilises one slot instead of two if your pruchased the two cards seperatly. it is also cheaper doing this way. You will need to purchase the probes as an addition. You do not need to run both though, the card comes with a blanking plug so you can run only one of its functions if required.

If you ant one let me know

Aqua-Digital · #5 07-16-2007, 04:51 PM

Hi all

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Matthias Gross · #6 07-17-2007, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scoobyupnorth

Matthias a question please this is driving me & the fish mad. I have the LED spot-light attached to the Profilux, when all was first started all was OK, blue led dimming according to the moon phase but now for the last few weeks it is now a the red leds' that are dimming according to the moon phase. What have I programmed wrong please?

I guess the channels are swapped. You can program the assignment of the channels to the LED groups. Just swap it again, see manual "program LED".
Important hint: Don't try to change the moon-color of -BW or -DB types, there color is not adjustable! If you do so this might cause a channel swap.

scoobyupnorth · #7 07-19-2007, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matthias Gross

I guess the channels are swapped. You can program the assignment of the channels to the LED groups. Just swap it again, see manual "program LED".
Important hint: Don't try to change the moon-color of -BW or -DB types, there color is not adjustable! If you do so this might cause a channel swap.

The LED is type Profilux-Simu-DB and I have tried to swap the channels with no luck, thinking back the swap happened when I updated to the latest version. What are the differences of the LED types because I am thinking of buying a second LED.

Aqua-Digital · #8 07-19-2007, 09:11 PM

Hi

the differences are in the colour and effect each produce.

If you have a marine tank and you want to recreate moonrise and moon phase and nothing else then the Simu-DB is just perfect.

Then you have the opposite, the sunrise spot or stick will simulate sunrise and sunset.

Moving on from there you then have what I call the full effect spot and sticks, these will do sunrise/sunset and moonphase and also produce simulated lightening effects, which of course can be fully programmed with duration and intensity.

it all comes down to what effect you are trying to achieve in your own system.

Hope this helps

Michael

"just click the crab"

scoobyupnorth · #9 07-20-2007, 07:16 AM

Hi Michael - Any idea how to change the channel back to blue? The LED lamp you mention is that the Profilux-Simu? Regards Paul

Aqua-Digital · #10 07-20-2007, 12:32 PM

Hi

Sounds like you may have moonphase set up, I am assuming you have a simuDB i.e it ony has a blue colour.

Other than moonphase or the simulation being set to cloudy days you will need to look at your set up graph. As there as so many setting for the simu's it is hard to diagnose by guess work, but if you can send me a copy of your profilux data file I can tehn upload it to mine and see where you are going wrong.

This can be done in file menu, you cn then save you settings to your pc and email them to me at sales@aqua-digital.com

Please give me 72 hours to look at it for you.

Not all the LED lights from profilux are simu's only the ones that flash, if you have a quick glance at my site you will see the difference as to what they do.

Regards
Michael