looking for controller

[blacknife]

Seriously looking at the reef angel myself

[tim the toolman]

I run the reef keeper lite with an extra pc4 and I love it. It also included a ph probe which is also a nice feature. The pc4 runs inline with one another using a connector cable included and more can be daisied inline with the others. They do all require an independent wall plug in.
Great system at a great price. Many add ons and upgrades available.

[Snaz]

Has anyone built or seen a DIY controller yet?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...iw=360&bih=592

[e46er]

so would I set a heater at like full on 90* and the controller gets set at say 77* heater plug on and and 80* heater plug off?

becuase the thermometers in the heaters are crappy if the controller gives the plug power at 77* and the stupid cheep heater says its fine it wont come on and tank keeps getting cooler...................... it would make sense to keep the ehater at a high enough temperature to make sure it would always turn on when the controller plug outlet gets power

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by e46er

so would I set a heater at like full on 90* and the controller gets set at say 77* heater plug on and and 80* heater plug off?

becuase the thermometers in the heaters are crappy if the controller gives the plug power at 77* and the stupid cheep heater says its fine it wont come on and tank keeps getting cooler...................... it would make sense to keep the ehater at a high enough temperature to make sure it would always turn on when the controller plug outlet gets power

The controller is pretty sensitive. In a live rock rubbermaid my RKL is set for 81 and the heater for 83.
It turns on @ 80.9 and off @ 81.1
There is a 'hysterisis' you can set as well. This tells the controller how sensitive to be.
You can program the controller to have a PC4's particular outlet either 'on' or 'off' in the case of a loss of communication ( if say a com cable was to get damaged ).
So you can see the concern if in your case you were to set your heater to 90 with the PC4 to 'on'

[e46er]

oh ok thanks!
Im going to order one i think

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by e46er

oh ok thanks!
Im going to order one i think

Before you buy one, think about what you might connect to it down the road. The RKL is limited to 4 modules but the RKE can handle 63 ( I think ).
I have a 75g with 110g total.
I bought the RKL @ Christmas, and by mid-Feb I started looking @ the RKE because I wanted more than 4 modules. It started when I wanted to have more than 2 PC4s and thought one Moonlight controller may not be enough if I wanted to have all 3 colors and enough intensity. Then I started thinking about connecting everything to it. My current hardware list is fairly large;
Eheim 1262 x 2
Skimmer
UV
Heaters
Chiller
Chaeto light
Lighting fans
Lights x 4
I currently have 3 PC4s, an SL1 and a Moonlight controller ( plus a hub for ease of connections, but it doesn't count as a module ).
I have future plans for more modules, but you get the idea.