Apex kalk stirrir programing

joseserrano

2500 Club Member
View Badges
Joined
Jul 1, 2014
Messages
3,334
Reaction score
1,546
Location
Santa ana, CA
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
So I don't want to mess this up and burn out the pump. I just got the Icecap kalk stirrer and I really like it, but I have been manually turning it on and off, and as you can guess, leaving it on for longer than I should. I want to program one of my EB8 outlets to run this 4x a day for 3 minutes at a time. I don't really care the times, I assume every 6 hours would be best. If you could please help. Laughably what I have so far is below.

Fallback OFF
Set OFF
If 05:00 Then On
 

SuncrestReef

That Apex guy
View Badges
Joined
Jan 18, 2018
Messages
4,214
Reaction score
8,688
Location
Oregon
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
The OSC (short for Oscillate) is the best way to do this:

Fallback OFF
OSC 000:00/003:00/357:00 Then ON

The 3 timers are:

000:00 -- How long to wait before turning On
003:00 -- How long to remain On
357:00 -- How long to remain Off. This is 6 hours minus 3 minutes.

The times are relative to midnight, so it will run at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00, and 18:00. It will repeat this cycle indefinitely as long as the output slider is set to AUTO.

See my tutorial on Apex Timers for more details and examples: https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/neptune-apex-programming-tutorials-part-2-timers.689/
 

TOP 10 Trending Threads

IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE, WOULD YOU HAVE AN LPS OR SPS DOMINANT REEF TANK?

  • LPS!

    Votes: 64 48.5%
  • SPS!

    Votes: 59 44.7%
  • Other (Please explain in the comments!)

    Votes: 9 6.8%
Back
Top