Hydros Control Panel

[CWalters]

Does anyone have any pictures of their Hydros control panel setup? Want to start planning mine out and looking for ideas.

Thanks!

 

[n2585722]

Here is one of my control board in the garage. This was taken a while back. I cannot take one right now since there is something on there that is not public knowledge. In this photo some of the things on the left are Digital Aquatics. I was slowly changing from that to Hydros. The bottom photo is the front electronics cabinet in the stand for the tank.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Here is one of my control board in the garage. This was taken a while back. I cannot take one right now since there is something on there that is not public knowledge. In this photo some of the things on the left are Digital Aquatics. I was slowly changing from that to Hydros. The bottom photo is the front electronics cabinet in the stand for the tank.

Blurr it, just enough so we can guess what it is...

 

[Connor At CoralVue]

This is great! Hope you get plenty of inspiration!

 

[reefiniteasy]

Here are two. One outside the stand, one mounted in the stand. Ignore all the wires. Have to redo things since the hurricane. Had to wire up some batteries.

 

[CWalters]

Here are two. One outside the stand, one mounted in the stand. Ignore all the wires. Have to redo things since the hurricane. Had to wire up some batteries.

How do you like the 4 with xp8?

 

[reefiniteasy]

How do you like the 4 with xp8?

I love it and run them on each tank. It’s made managing the tank easier. Money well spent for me.

 

[CWalters]

I love it and run them on each tank. It’s made managing the tank easier. Money well spent for me.

Just sucks because quite a bit of the stuff I bought won’t work well with hydros. Guess it’s an excuse to get different stuff

 

[reefiniteasy]

Just sucks because quite a bit of the stuff I bought won’t work well with hydros. Guess it’s an excuse to get different stuff

what do you got?

 

[CWalters]

what do you got?

Nero 3
Current USA return pump
AI Prime HD lights
Tunze ATO

 

[JeffB418]

Nero 3
Current USA return pump
AI Prime HD lights
Tunze ATO

While none of these can't be dynamically integrated into hydros, the system does allow you to add a level of control and monitoring above just running these stand alone. For example, if you plug these into a XP8 and just control power to the device you can do the following:
Nero 3 - you can control the power to the device using Modes and disable this device when you want to feed the tank. In addition you can set power monitoring alerts to know if the pump has died or accidently shut off.
Current USA return pump - same concept as the nero 3. Monitor power and control prime power for feeding or cleaning.
AI Prime HD lights - for lights you wouldnt see any huge benefit of having hydros integrated control, better to leave separate and use native app.
Tunze ATO - plug this into your XP8 and add additional optical sensors to your hydros. Place a sensor in your ATO reservoir to alert you when its low and automatically disable your Tunze so it doesnt burn out the pump. Place an additional sensor in your sump beside the Tunze just above its sensors. Then have hydros alert you if the sensor gets wet incase the Tunze accidently overfilled your sump, and additionally disable power to the Tunze. You could even set max power alerts to alert you if the Tunze draws more power than normal to help alert you to a pump failure.