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Old 08-21-2013, 03:52 PM
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What are the advantages of hooking this up to the apex over the supplied controller?

(I also have an apex and will be purchasing the Jebao power heads soon)
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Old 08-22-2013, 12:41 AM
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The advantage is that you get more control. You can decide to run in a certain mode at night and run a different mode in the morning and evening, and another mode during noon.

You can have waves from 5 pm till 7pm, etc... you can do pretty much anything you want. I lower the power at night, but I keep the else mode, just lower output.

With the Jebao controller you must change the mode manually if you want to change it, it cannot be automated.

I am not sure that you have a cable for the Apex controller available though. Many Apex users are buying the Reef Angel cable and retrofit it to the Apex controller. Maybe there is a cable available now, not sure.

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What are the advantages of hooking this up to the apex over the supplied controller?

(I also have an apex and will be purchasing the Jebao power heads soon)
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