RAMASULE'S REEF JOURNEY

[RamsReef]

Waiting for tank to cycle, practice stand building.

 

[USMC4Life]

You are doing awesome work man. Want to build me a few things lol.

 

[RamsReef]

Apexed my qt for fun.

 

[USMC4Life]

Your wife is awesome to "let you do this" I will live vicariously through you. lol

 

[RamsReef]

Your wife is awesome to "let you do this" I will live vicariously through you. lol

Haha family effort :)

 

[USMC4Life]

What fish are you getting?

 

[RamsReef]

What fish are you getting?

No clue yet.
I have a 120 6' in storage, it's what you see in my garage photos in the background, but the basement of the house needs to be finished first.
My wife has okayed a 3'x2' footprint temp tank, which I was thinking about putting the sump from the 6' in.
I was going to put a 2'x2'x 20/24 on there and have a 1' storage cupboard beside it for housing the apex / dosing equip.
However I may just qt t he fish in the one 20 L and keep it a fish only until basement is done, or after 76days move the fish into the other 20L which is for inverts and then do another batch of fish in the QT.

Fish wise for the 20L we may go
2 x clowns
1/2 goby
1/2 basletts

Or go

5 x anthias

If / when the 60 / 120 are ready
Tang(s) or foxface
Mandarin(s) (This is the one my wife really wants)

 

[USMC4Life]

Look at getting

 

[USMC4Life]

One of my all time favorite fish.

 

[RamsReef]

Look at getting

Marine Betta?

Thanks, yes,
So many fish so little time.

 

[USMC4Life]

Marine Betta?

Thanks, yes,
So many fish so little time.

Yes it is. Had him for about 3 years now. Never bothers anyone. Eats anything I give him. Got him when he was about 2" he is a bit bigger now.

 

[RamsReef]

Yes it is. Had him for about 3 years now. Never bothers anyone. Eats anything I give him. Got him when he was about 2" he is a bit bigger now.

Ha I'll see, I actually really like inverts. When I go diving I can get some pedersons shrimps to come clean my fingers, and I play with pistol shrimps.

 

[USMC4Life]

He is actually ok with cleaner shrimp. But not glass / ghost shrimp

 

[RamsReef]

Updates:

Not done cycle either tank.

Might start corals anyways.

Still waiting on my ato to come in.

I have 3 of these reactors just sitting, what you guys think?

2 rubble rock
1 ceramic rings / gfo / carbon if ever needed.

 

[RamsReef]

And we are off....

 

[RamsReef]

Had to import these from USA. Payed double hopefully it is all that jazz.

 

[RamsReef]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/jebao-sw-4-to-apex.279528/
Got wavemakers installed.

 

[Brew12]

Had to import these from USA. Payed double hopefully it is all that jazz.

I've had good luck with it. Cheap and easy for us in the US.

 

[RamsReef]

Might as well post here:
Hello,

I bought a Jebao SW-4 and I have an APEX. In the manual it stated (Uses standard 3.5mm audio jack) this is untrue, it uses a 3.5mm power jack. I did not have one of those, nor did I want to wait.

This is my journey.

Not Audio!

Assemble the components:
Soldering Iron, Servo Jumpers/Extenders (What I had on hand), SW-4 controller, Beer (Need 3-4 of these)

On the backside of that plug you can wire up. RED (0-10V), WHITE (Jack Connected Sense), Black (Ground)

Put it back together to get the following

On the other side connect the white to the black. This might (Who knows) tell the Jebao controller that you have plugged in an external control.

Now we can work on the apex cable.

Don't be like me. I cut an Ethernet cable to make my jumper, except I cut the straight end and left the crossover side, which basically means, I made it a lot harder on myself then needed to be.

Here is the diagram I used to determine the Apex Side of the cable.

Next one can test the setup.

The SW-4 should be in C mode, I believe this stands for external control. If you do not do this you will get a neat combination of the 2 modes, your external control and whatever program the controller is running.

It works! Ok I know you are all thinking at this point, Ram, you are a pretty smart dude. No I am not, if I was smart, I would have bought the premade cable, totally unsmart.

Now we can go back and finish the cable and wire the other unit.

And Finished

Ok now onto the Apex Side of things.

You will need to make 2 outlets, one for each pump.

In my case QT_1_PH_L and QT_1_PH_R

Now you will need to make profiles for each wave mode, if you want the left and the right powerhead doing different things per wave mode (Push, Pull, On/Off) you need to make 2 profiles per mode, one for each powerhead.

So here I have, Pulse (1/2), Swell(3/4), Stir(5), Feed(6/7)
I will show the Pulse Mode.

So ID1 Wave1_PulL looks like the following:

This will:
ON/OFF
every 0.6ms (Divide by 10 is ON) f
rom 0% to 100%

ID2 Wave1_PulR looks like the following:

This one will:
OFF/ON
every 0.6ms (Divide by 10 is ON)
from 0% to 80% (Coral is by this powerhead)
AND SYNCHRONIZE (This makes the APEX link this profile to the profile above it, in this case profile ID 1)

Next we can program the outlets:

Here is the left powerhead

And here is the right

Note: If you do not need your powerheads doing different things they can both use the same profile as in my Wave5_Stir Profile.

That's it.

Overall I like the Jebao's for the cost. Every once in a while they seem to do their own thing for a couple seconds, they run to whatever speed is on the controller, I have mine set about 50%. Then they fall back inline. I'm not sure if this is a design of the controller, or a design of Ramasule's doing.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Ram

 

[revhtree]

Looking good bro!