Need some help programing my TUNZE NANO STREAM 6055'S in Apex Fusion

[FLSharkvictim]

I could use some help on programming my TUNZE Turbelle Nanostream 6055's through Fusion. I have the Apex Classic model. These would be the things I would like to do with them. 1st - Pulse at different times. 2nd Turn them off at a certain time every night for feeding for 5 minutes even know they have their own control to do that. 3rd have them turn almost all the way off or totally off when My AI Hydra HD led's go off which starts @ 11pm. I want the pumps to either slow down to 20% or go all the way off until my lights come back on the next day ramping up at 11am. Now, I bought the Apex Stream cable to connect the two TUNZE's together. I am just having problems connecting the two and get them to do the things I explained above. Also, 1 last thing here is a pix of the tunze controller that each pump comes with. Let me know your thoughts if you run your TUNZE pumps of your Apex?

 

[don_chuwish]

I didn't do anything so complicated but I do seem to remember that 35% was about the lowest I could get them to run. Any setting lower than that just resulted in no flow at all.
I wanted to ramp speeds up and down again in opposition to each other left and right, so I set up various profiles. There is some time in the middle of the night when both are off. In the event of a power failure, just one 6055 runs at minimum speed.

Var4_1_6055L
Set 6055_35
If Time 06:00 to 10:00 Then 6055_UP
If Time 10:00 to 18:00 Then 6055_100
If Time 18:00 to 21:00 Then 6055_Dn
If Time 21:00 to 06:00 Then 6055_0
If FeedA 000 Then 6055_35
If FeedB 030 Then OFF

Var4_2_6055R
Set 6055_35
If Time 01:00 to 10:00 Then 6055_0
If Time 10:00 to 14:00 Then 6055_UP
If Time 14:00 to 22:00 Then 6055_100
If Time 22:00 to 01:00 Then 6055_Dn
If FeedA 000 Then 6055_35
If FeedB 030 Then OFF
If Power Apex Off 000 Then 6055_35

 

[ksfulk]

Since it wasnt mentioned, and I dont know your labeling system, just going to touch on a few basics first.

Have you set up the TUNZE pumps on variable speed outlets? Thats what the Apex will use to control the pumps. You'll do your programming of what you want the pumps to do in that outlet. It looks like you have them assigned to Eb8 outlets, but that will just turn the pumps on and off. I run two 6040s and here's what my outlets page looks like:

Assuming you have the variable speed outlets set up, then you can either use the Fusion pump interface for simple set ups, or you can code it for more intricate functions. I believe for a pulsing function, you will have to set up additional profiles or outlets - at least I had to do this when I wanted that functionality on my Gyre using the same variable speed outlet.

If the Apex is going to run the powerhead, you want the TUNZE controller to have the top knob set to 100%, this then lets the Apex programming take care of controlling the speed. If you were to set the knob to 50%, then the Apex at 100%, the powerhead would only run at 50%, because that is the total allowable speed that the Tunze will provide to the Apex. As stated above, the Tunze powerhead will not run at a speed <30%. Once you have your profiles all setup, you just connect the Tunze controller to the Apex variable speed port and set the controller to the bottom function (I believe its external control or something similar - the light is yellow on mine) and the Apex should take control.

Otherwise, you can allow the Tunze controller to handle all of the pulse/wave functions, and then enter a line of code on the outlet to turn off for 5 minutes if a Feed button is pressed.