Profilux II plus aquarium controller

[Slick Fork]

2 quick questions...

Matthias are there any plans to have a full tank LED system along the lines of something like the solaris fixture that would be made by GHL and controllable with the profilux?

Secondly, can anyone confirm or deny if the "western" cables that we use to link the power bars together are telephone cables? The reason i ask is I'd love to hook my upstairs tank up to the controller as well and if it's telephone cable than I can just run 50 feet of cable upstairs and have it controlling that tank as well!

So far I've had my controller a month and absolutely love it!

[support@proline]

Aquacan you got a PM

[AquaCan]

Slick Fork, these are our standard telephone cables and jacks. I am using extensions on mine as well.

AquaCan

[SuperFudge]

Originally Posted by AquaCan

Slick Fork, these are our standard telephone cables and jacks. I am using extensions on mine as well.

AquaCan

Thats funny, i bought 3 different brands of standard 6 line extensions,and none worked...only the coupler did.

[AquaCan]

That's what i'm using, a seperate 6 line telephone coupler and seperate 6 line standard telephone extensions, all bought from a local dollar store. Works for me!

[SuperFudge]

Originally Posted by AquaCan

That's what i'm using, a seperate 6 line telephone coupler and seperate 6 line standard telephone extensions, all bought from a local dollar store. Works for me!

I remember now that i had just tried it on the remote display, not on the power bars.

[AquaCan]

Works just fine on my remote display.

[Matthias Gross]

AquaCan,

will i see you in september (Macna)?

Regarding extensions:
This is a 6pole 1:1 extension cable with western plugs (RJ12).
Keep in mind they should not be too long. I am not familiar with the unit "feet" but talking about meters the cable should not exceed about 12m.
Maybe longer distances can be achieved; that must be tested.
In any case make sure there is some distance between the extension cable and sources of interferences, a long cable is similar to an antenna.

[skylord]

50 feet is about 15.5 meters so attenuation could be a problem. The signal probably starts getting weaker well before 12 meters but its still just strong enough to work.

Scott

[AquaCan]

Matthias, I will on vacation in Aruba at the same time the Macna is on in September. And yes, I am still fighting with the WLAN connection.



SuperFudge,
What I am using is 6 wire modular line extension. It looks just like a regular telephone extension jack with a slightly wider wire but the difference is that it has 6 conductors as opposed to the two or three that telephones use for extensions. If you look at the clear jacks you can see this.