Hello let me first start by give you all a little history on my story so you understand where I’m coming from and what I’m doing and why. I just recently got back into the saltwater aquarium hobby after a 22 year hiatus. 22 years ago I lost a whole 180 gallon setup 10 year worth of fish and coral died while I was gone for a holiday weekend, because of a storm and a power outage. 2 day and lost over 8000.00 in fish and corals some you can’t get any more I’d hate to even imagine what it would be at today prices. I didn’t bother setting the tank back up again but of the shock of losing everything and the fact that a would be moving in a few months. Forward to today I live in a rural area and we get some nasty storms daily in the summer that cause the power to flicker on an off quite a bit along with frequent power outages and other electric company isn’t exactly very fast in their repairs or maintaining the lines and cutting trees and to make it worst me and my 2 neighbors are on a . completely separate secret than the rest of the people around us so we are at the bottom of the repair priority list. We went over 3 weeks without power after Hurricane Charlie so with all that being said I’m I’m a little paranoid about loosing another system do to power failure. I do have a generator but it just a regular generator not a whole house system I’d like one just can’t afford one being on a fixed income. So I designed my system around DC voltage devices 2 24v main pumps 1 24v Vortec powerheads in tank and 2 12v powerheads one in overflow and one in refugium. I’m using 2 12v 100Ah LiPo battery a friend got for me hook a Series bring the voltage up to 24v. I bought this 180W 12V 13.5A universal AC UPS/Charge function monitor switching power supply input 110/220v battery charger output 12VDC
Unfortunately it doses not work as described it is not an uninterrupted power supply I believe it uses a relay to transition from 110v to 24v. It interrupters for just a few milliseconds just enough time to spike the Pi and cause it to reboot and like I said the power flickers a lot and this is not good for the Pi. D
So after doing some research I found this this UPS HAT (C) for Raspberry Pi Zero, 5V Uninterruptible Power Supply, Multi Battery Protection Circuits with built in monitoring of power and reporting back over I2C. My question/what in need help with is getting that information to ReefPi. I’d like to if possible setup ReefPi to go into a kinda fail safe mode shutdown all none essential equipment and turn on a 12v air pump I have ,when the UPS hat senses the power loss. Coarse as I’m writing this ,I just realize that the hat is looking at the 5v input from the power supplied ( Robo-Tank) in my case which is 12v supplied from the 24v psi/ups so there a blink of a power loss. I guess I could plug a 5v or dropped down to 3.3v ac adapter to work as a switch. To let the Pi and Reef-Pi know there is a Ac voltage loss and run the power loss, no power,emergency operation mode,and run the shutdown sequence and then the reverse sequence when power was restored. I think I know how to do this in Reef-pi ,but the script configs sides under the hood not sure about I know nothing about writing Cade . Any help or advice on this subject would be awesome. I pan on have this system a it’s occupants for a long times.
The oldest member in my tank was almost 15year old and had from my previous 2 tanks before. I’m dammed and determined to not loose another tank due to an electrical failure. Thank you for taking the time to read this have a wonderful day.
Unfortunately it doses not work as described it is not an uninterrupted power supply I believe it uses a relay to transition from 110v to 24v. It interrupters for just a few milliseconds just enough time to spike the Pi and cause it to reboot and like I said the power flickers a lot and this is not good for the Pi. D
So after doing some research I found this this UPS HAT (C) for Raspberry Pi Zero, 5V Uninterruptible Power Supply, Multi Battery Protection Circuits with built in monitoring of power and reporting back over I2C. My question/what in need help with is getting that information to ReefPi. I’d like to if possible setup ReefPi to go into a kinda fail safe mode shutdown all none essential equipment and turn on a 12v air pump I have ,when the UPS hat senses the power loss. Coarse as I’m writing this ,I just realize that the hat is looking at the 5v input from the power supplied ( Robo-Tank) in my case which is 12v supplied from the 24v psi/ups so there a blink of a power loss. I guess I could plug a 5v or dropped down to 3.3v ac adapter to work as a switch. To let the Pi and Reef-Pi know there is a Ac voltage loss and run the power loss, no power,emergency operation mode,and run the shutdown sequence and then the reverse sequence when power was restored. I think I know how to do this in Reef-pi ,but the script configs sides under the hood not sure about I know nothing about writing Cade . Any help or advice on this subject would be awesome. I pan on have this system a it’s occupants for a long times.
The oldest member in my tank was almost 15year old and had from my previous 2 tanks before. I’m dammed and determined to not loose another tank due to an electrical failure. Thank you for taking the time to read this have a wonderful day.