Profilux II plus aquarium controller - Page 6

SuperFudge · #51 12-24-2006, 03:50 PM

Merry Christmas you reefgeeks !

Colin, yes the power bar will run as many halides as you have sockets, but just cant exceed the 1500 w rating in total.

You cant however, exceed 400w of halide per outlet, this will blow the internal fuse for that individual socket.
In my case i had 6 halides, 4 PC`s, and Led`s...so i had run a powerbar off of one of the outlets from the profilux, and tried to have more than one halide kick on with the use of one outlet...this was popping the fuses, this confused me becuase i wasnt running more than the 1500w total.

I asked Mattias (profilux designer) at Macna about this, and he said on any other type of light it is ok to exceed the 400w per outlet, such as t-5 or pc...but since the coil in halides actually draw way more than that on startup, its too hard on the internal fuse todeal with that power draw all at once.

Marc.

niloc16 · #52 12-24-2006, 07:21 PM

merry xmas to you to marc,

thanks for the info. i've been trying to get the computer to communicate with the controller wirelessly for about 5 hours last night, and i must say it almost turned into a frizbee. i cant get it to work. when i use the serial cable it came with it works great, but with the WLAN, no chance. the computer states there is no device found. i'm going to attempt to try it again today but there may be a cheap controller for sale tonight. just kidding. i just hate fighting with computers.

SuperFudge · #53 12-24-2006, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by niloc16

merry xmas to you to marc,

thanks for the info. i've been trying to get the computer to communicate with the controller wirelessly for about 5 hours last night, and i must say it almost turned into a frizbee. i cant get it to work. when i use the serial cable it came with it works great, but with the WLAN, no chance. the computer states there is no device found. i'm going to attempt to try it again today but there may be a cheap controller for sale tonight. just kidding. i just hate fighting with computers.

Wouldnt happen to be a Linksis wireless router would it ?

bullit67 · #54 12-24-2006, 08:09 PM

Colin

You do have a wireless network set up in your house From what I understand you need to have a wireless network up and running it wont go directly to your wireless computer it needs a router to work.

Just incase you didnt know

Then again I could be wrong as I have a LAN card and I beleive it needs to be conected to a router

Merry Christmas

Doug

niloc16 · #55 12-24-2006, 08:26 PM

it is not a linksys router. i have a wireless network going already. i was trying again for about an hour, and no luck again. thanks though

bullit67 · #56 12-24-2006, 10:27 PM

Marc

Do these things not work well with linksys routers ? or maybe not at all

Doug

Skimmerking · #57 12-24-2006, 10:43 PM

I to have a wireless ,not to insult you but you have to make sure that the address on the router is matching up with the address on your system. I found that out the hard way. I it wouldn't let me in until my brother told me about the address key..

good luck

and happy christmas

niloc16 · #58 12-24-2006, 10:53 PM

how the hell do you match the addresses?

bullit67 · #59 12-26-2006, 10:31 PM

Colin

have you tryed looking in the communication menu and set it to LAN it looks like it is set defualt to the serial port

niloc16 · #60 12-26-2006, 11:28 PM

i've done that with not luck what so ever. i found the wlan tutuorial on the disc and tried to follow it but when i get to the step where you use the LAN/WLAN connnection tool the screen pops up searching for the unit and it states 0 connected. if anyone has another idea i'm really open for suggestions.