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<blockquote data-quote="d2mini" data-source="post: 10643679" data-attributes="member: 31993"><p>Before I get into your specifics, I just want to say what is the most important thing to me and that's RELIABILITY. Nobody beats GHL's proven track record for robustness/reliability. I would gladly give up minor features knowing that my controller is never going to be at fault for causing catastrophic or other problems with my tank. Their hardware and firmware is the best and why it's also the choice for commercial applications, outside the hobby.</p><p></p><p>1. Eh, not sure. I'd just go with both GHL.</p><p>2. Salnity probe for sure. Get the temp probe too. GHL for ORP as well if you decide to monitor that. Ph.... I haven't really noticed a difference with other brands here. Any will work and you should replace your pH probe annually.</p><p>3. GHL has desktop, web and mobile device app interfaces. I believe a couple initial setup things still have to be done on the desktop app (Control Center), and the Light Composer for their lighting products is still desktop only.</p><p>4. Never saw any advantage to this so I don't have details. I'm going to run what I'm going to run regardless and so many devices are now more efficient anyway like lighting and pumps.</p><p>5. Multiple ways to handle this with GHL and I'm sure Apex too. No experience with Hydros.</p><p>6. Been running GHL for 10 years now. Wouldn't use anything else.</p><p>7. Monitoring can be done wirelessly but equipment has to be directly connected to the controller or the controllers power bars. You wouldn't want to rely on wireless connections for anything important that actually controls the tanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="d2mini, post: 10643679, member: 31993"] Before I get into your specifics, I just want to say what is the most important thing to me and that's RELIABILITY. Nobody beats GHL's proven track record for robustness/reliability. I would gladly give up minor features knowing that my controller is never going to be at fault for causing catastrophic or other problems with my tank. Their hardware and firmware is the best and why it's also the choice for commercial applications, outside the hobby. 1. Eh, not sure. I'd just go with both GHL. 2. Salnity probe for sure. Get the temp probe too. GHL for ORP as well if you decide to monitor that. Ph.... I haven't really noticed a difference with other brands here. Any will work and you should replace your pH probe annually. 3. GHL has desktop, web and mobile device app interfaces. I believe a couple initial setup things still have to be done on the desktop app (Control Center), and the Light Composer for their lighting products is still desktop only. 4. Never saw any advantage to this so I don't have details. I'm going to run what I'm going to run regardless and so many devices are now more efficient anyway like lighting and pumps. 5. Multiple ways to handle this with GHL and I'm sure Apex too. No experience with Hydros. 6. Been running GHL for 10 years now. Wouldn't use anything else. 7. Monitoring can be done wirelessly but equipment has to be directly connected to the controller or the controllers power bars. You wouldn't want to rely on wireless connections for anything important that actually controls the tanks. [/QUOTE]
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