Cool dual-COR closed loop setup

[SuncrestReef]

Check out the programming I helped set up for the guys over at VCA (makers of random flow generators and other cool products). They're setting up a 134 gallon cube tank with two COR-20 pumps in a closed loop for flow. The Apex coding ramps one COR up while ramping the other COR down for 6 hours 16 minutes for a total cycle of 12 hours 32 minutes. This will cause the cycle to shift slightly from day to day similar to natural tidal cycles.

Take a look at the code in their build thread here:

Cube Build - 134-Gallon Cube Build - Random Flow Generator® Powered Mixed Reef - Lots of Pics!

Why chose the L-shape sump and not have the return pump be submersed in a return chamber - making the sump traditional rectangle/square? two simple reasons come to mind - heat dissipation of the return pump to the room vs to the water (if overheating tank is something to worry about, any heat...

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@Terence you might like this.

 

[Shirak]

Nice! Thinking of doing some closed loop plumbing on my next build or two so I don't have to deal with so many in tank wave makers and gyres!

 

[isufiji]

Great idea and really cool concept. Instead of doing this using a closed loop system, could a similar setup and schedule be run from 2 COR20 returns from an overflow and sump with 2 independent return lines? Thinking this would create some additional random flow in the tank.

 

[Vivid Creative Aquatics]

Just discovered this thread.

I have to say- the programing is working exactly like I intended. @SuncrestReef ‐ you knocked it out of the park on this one.

The flow around the tank is also doing exactly what I wanted. It producing this randomized gyre effects that over the course of the day switches directions.

Well do a video once tank is all all setup. Right now we are just waiting on the sump so we can finish the setup

Here's plumbing setup for the dual closed loop

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[frasers4th]

Check out the programming I helped set up for the guys over at VCA (makers of random flow generators and other cool products). They're setting up a 134 gallon cube tank with two COR-20 pumps in a closed loop for flow. The Apex coding ramps one COR up while ramping the other COR down for 6 hours 16 minutes for a total cycle of 12 hours 32 minutes. This will cause the cycle to shift slightly from day to day similar to natural tidal cycles.

Take a look at the code in their build thread here:

Cube Build - 134-Gallon Cube Build - Random Flow Generator® Powered Mixed Reef - Lots of Pics!

Why chose the L-shape sump and not have the return pump be submersed in a return chamber - making the sump traditional rectangle/square? two simple reasons come to mind - heat dissipation of the return pump to the room vs to the water (if overheating tank is something to worry about, any heat...

www.reef2reef.com

@Terence you might like this.

I have a question about how you connected the COR’s to the system. Did you use the Aquabus cable’s to a 1 LINK and then 1 LINK to the BASE UNIT or the EB832?

I’m trying to connect the 2 in my set up.

 

[Vivid Creative Aquatics]

I have a question about how you connected the COR’s to the system. Did you use the Aquabus cable’s to a 1 LINK and then 1 LINK to the BASE UNIT or the EB832?

I’m trying to connect the 2 in my set up.

Since these are Cor20 pumps, I don't believe that can be powered by the 1link. The COR15 pumps however can be powre by 1link.

In this case the pump controllers are both connected to the aquabus the usual aqubuse cables and also plugged into their own power supplies. The power supplies are then plugged into EB4. I found if I plug these and the return pump (also a COR20) into the EB832, it would throw an error and could not provide enough power for all three pumps.

I should also note - the power supplies for the CVOR 20s are kind a of crappy, and I have had a few burnout over the last two years. To make it worse, they have a barrel plug that I simply could not find a match. And, the Replacment power supplies are way over priced, in my opinion. So, to solve this issue I simply cut the barrel plug off the old burned out power bricks and wired them to a single, more powerful and higher quality power supply.

I used this power supply to accomplish this and have not had any issue with it since