[quote=“kaptken, post:20, topic:4327”]
I guess that takes an understanding of how the controller works internally, and how you set the equipment it controls. if you dont do that, disaster is possible. [/quote]
If you get behind the wheel of a car and don’t understand how to use it disaster is possible as well. If you set up a salt water tank and don’t know what you are doing disaster is imminent.
“takes an understanding of how the controller works internally” nope, doesn’t require that at all
“how you set the equipment it controls”, if you don’t know that with or with out a controller your in trouble.
thats what i said. knowing how it works so you can use it correctly.
Anyway, after a couple days of scrubbing algae off frag rocks, and working all night till 8 AM this morning, i finished replacing the sand on bottom with a plenum sand bed. that 2 inches of old sand was sure dirty. rincing it out turned the water dirty black. so i think the algae problem should go away soon.
i had a brown surge go though the other day and stuck my 500 watt blue line heater on. it got up to 102.4 f and i was not home so i couldnt do anything about it. i lost over 350$$ of livestock
[quote=“Snook11, post:23, topic:4327”]
i had a brown surge go though the other day and stuck my 500 watt blue line heater on. it got up to 102.4 f and i was not home so i couldnt do anything about it. i lost over 350$$ of livestock[/quote]
[quote=“Snook11, post:23, topic:4327”]
i had a brown surge go though the other day and stuck my 500 watt blue line heater on. it got up to 102.4 f and i was not home so i couldnt do anything about it. i lost over 350$$ of livestock[/quote]
Very sorry to hear Nathan. Ken told me.
I’ve heard this story over and over again. [/quote]
what is a brown surge? do heaters with probes have the ability to avoid issues like this?
a brown out, is when the grid has too much load, or too little power supply to keep your house lines at 120V and 60 cycles. they can compensate a little by reducing the voltage to spread it farther. but electrical equipment in you home might then draw more amps of current to compensate for the voltage drop or jst dim, depending on the equipment.
it does not go well with electronic equipment. or digital . which is why you should use a UPS battery back up for some digi stuff.
yup and i got a battery backup so this never happens again thanks jon ya it sucks lol and my heater is a digaital one its the blueline model where its controled by a digital station that has the set temp and temp in the tank this is what they said screwed up and set my defalt temp on 178 bc it is essientally a computer and got jumbled
Sounds like either a computer with horrible programming… or I dunno what.
There is a APC UPS on my controller which would prevent brown out issues. There is also one on my router and cable model so if the power shut off completely I could still tell you the temp, pH, and ORP of my tank from anywhere I can get a cell phone reception or wifi signal.
Added some new things to my controller recently. Here are the last four outlets on my controller:
BluLED_5_7
Vortech_MP60
Vortech_MP40
Vortech_MP10
I’m going to have to do a tank build thread one of these days.