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Hi All,
So I have recently purchased the Maxspect Gyre XF330 with two pumps. I had seen everywhere how they are great since you can connect them to battery backups and keep tanks alive during power outages. I live in Miami and hurricanes typically knock out power for extended periods of time. During hurricane Irma, my power was out for two weeks. So battery backups are very important to me. I have a system of a couple of deep cycle batteries to give me crazy extended power and the best is that I can take one out to my car to charge if I start to get low. (generators are not allowed in my building as I am on the 6th floor).
Now comes my issue/question. Before I purchased my gyres, I read the product manual, and Maxspect mentions that I can hook them up my battery backups but I would need to purchase a Power Switch Adapter(sold separately). See the screenshot of the manual below. No issue. I am fine spending the extra money on the adapter. But I come to find they don't seem to offer it for sale. Bulk reef support didn't know and said to contact CoralVue. Maxspect specific CoralVue customer support seems to have never heard of the adapter before. And tells me to buy their icecaps battery backup instead. But this will only run 2 gyre pumps for a day or so even at the auto reduced speed. Not really an option for hurricane season.
Coralvue also told me to buy the below Y cable....but the connectors seem to be incorrect. 2 males and one female compared to the 2 females and one male of the power switch adapter. So I think they were mistaken in suggesting this cable.
Does anyone have a suggestion? How has everyone else tied Gyres into their backups? Is this possible...or should I just return the Gyres and use a different powerhead?
@csmaxspect @Bulk Reef Supply Any help would be greatly appreciated since the gyres won't work for me if they can't connect to my backup system as the product manual says they can.
Thank you,
James
So I have recently purchased the Maxspect Gyre XF330 with two pumps. I had seen everywhere how they are great since you can connect them to battery backups and keep tanks alive during power outages. I live in Miami and hurricanes typically knock out power for extended periods of time. During hurricane Irma, my power was out for two weeks. So battery backups are very important to me. I have a system of a couple of deep cycle batteries to give me crazy extended power and the best is that I can take one out to my car to charge if I start to get low. (generators are not allowed in my building as I am on the 6th floor).
Now comes my issue/question. Before I purchased my gyres, I read the product manual, and Maxspect mentions that I can hook them up my battery backups but I would need to purchase a Power Switch Adapter(sold separately). See the screenshot of the manual below. No issue. I am fine spending the extra money on the adapter. But I come to find they don't seem to offer it for sale. Bulk reef support didn't know and said to contact CoralVue. Maxspect specific CoralVue customer support seems to have never heard of the adapter before. And tells me to buy their icecaps battery backup instead. But this will only run 2 gyre pumps for a day or so even at the auto reduced speed. Not really an option for hurricane season.
Coralvue also told me to buy the below Y cable....but the connectors seem to be incorrect. 2 males and one female compared to the 2 females and one male of the power switch adapter. So I think they were mistaken in suggesting this cable.
Does anyone have a suggestion? How has everyone else tied Gyres into their backups? Is this possible...or should I just return the Gyres and use a different powerhead?
@csmaxspect @Bulk Reef Supply Any help would be greatly appreciated since the gyres won't work for me if they can't connect to my backup system as the product manual says they can.
Thank you,
James