Dave's next upgrade(man cave)

[dave_C]

Originally Posted by NanoN00b

Well, his drywaller might hate him... I'm glad I don't have to hang any in there.

Dave, that power issue, did you get an electrician to install all those circuits?

There are devices like this:

http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-d...ger_x2-61.html

That can monitor power and your can track them (SNMP traps, emails, etc) and with a UPS and small server, you can log everything and even get power usage stats. What gets measured gets managed.

To run everything on a UPS, you're going to need to think big, like home genset big - if your power goes out for 12 hours on account of ENMAX (not impossible), all the emails in the world won't prevent an issue. You'd have to get a pretty big portable generator to keep everything running for any extended period of time.

If you get any UPS to run the motors for your pumps, you might want to check out how they run on the step-approximated UPS's... I have to use a true sine UPS otherwise the motor on my pumps just shudders for 5 minutes.

i was looking at getting one of these on a switching sub-panel
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/eco-...closure/934334

from what i understand, if the house losts power the sub-panel will switch over to the generator with in 10 seconds.

it will only power the pumps and heater

the generator runs on natural gas so it should be able to run extend period of time

[reefwars]

huh not sure how i missed this build but i have been drinking apparently lol soooo almost a bucket of salt a week eh lol and your powerbill is gonna be through the roof the cops are gonna be at your door thinking your running a grow op lol......is there a wifey????

wow 1100g is 9,185 lbs in water alone lol......this is great now when someone says im nuts i can just show them this thread

steallar job and quite the imoressive build if this doesnt get totm on some site in the years to come ill quit reefing and buy a lizard lol

cheers!!!!!

[NanoN00b]

Originally Posted by dave@conceptaquatics

i was looking at getting one of these on a switching sub-panel
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/eco-...closure/934334

from what i understand, if the house losts power the sub-panel will switch over to the generator with in 10 seconds.

it will only power the pumps and heater

the generator runs on natural gas so it should be able to run extend period of time

Yeah, those ng units are perfect for a self-sustaining home because it has to be a major disaster before NG goes down... And honestly, if that came to pass - the fish won't be on your mind.

6kw should do a fair amount. You might want to put a couple light circuit on it too and your furnace, so lights and climate stay on if you can afford based on the draw. What does an tank that size take to heat it you imagine?

I presume you will get a hrv to just keep it dry.

I must say, I'm jealous of the look, but it would be more mantainence than I can do.

[BlueTang<3]

How is this coming along? We are looking forward to seeing this up and running.

[lastlight]

Yeah I've been eating my wheaties dave when's lift day?

[dave_C]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Yeah I've been eating my wheaties dave when's lift day?

once we catch up on some project's than we will start working on this again

from my last count we are only 28 projects behind


but we do have some really cool tanks we are finishing off

one is design around 1 inch external overflow and a couple of one-piece eurobraces tanks, they will be nicessssss!

thanks Dave

[kam]

Do you guys have a website with customer's tank pics? That would be really nice to give the rest of us an idea of what you guys can do.

[dave_C]

Originally Posted by kam

Do you guys have a website with customer's tank pics? That would be really nice to give the rest of us an idea of what you guys can do.

this is some of the tanks we have done in the past
http://www.conceptaquatics.ca/gallery

one of these days i will start a thread that will high light some of out current projects

Dave

[dave_C]

so it's been a while but finally have an update to post

couldn't get motivated enough to go into work today, so i figure i would call one of my staff to help me work on the electrical today.

who would have thought running nine circuits takes so long to do

so this is the new sub-panel we installed with 7 gfi dead fronts and two regular plug


this is the rats nest off the current panel

next up will be to clean up the wiring in the main panel and have the hrv installed this week

so more to come, but it atleast it is starting to move

dave

[BlueTang<3]

Wow 9 circuits no messing around here, I thought I was doing good with putting my tanks on 3