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Hi all,
Although I'm about a year or so off from setting up a reef tank again (going to move in the next year, need a bigger home for the family), I'm starting to pick up and make stuff for my next setup.
Now after reading a few post lately of what people are doing with Raspberry Pi / Arduino for monitoring and maintaining the tank, I thought I'd put up an idea I've started to play with just in case someone has already done it, or if not, it could help fuel ideas for others all ready making stuff.
My plan is to setup inline ammeter on each heater, return pump or other needed equipment, and have the controller set to give an alarm of some sort when current goes to far out of value from when either a pump or heater dies, or other type of fault.
I thought this would be a great way to know if your back up heater / equipment was working overtime to make up for something faulty.
I'm still awhile from finishing, but will put an update once I've completed anything major with it, but thought might as well put it up now as the idea could help someone else.
Although I'm about a year or so off from setting up a reef tank again (going to move in the next year, need a bigger home for the family), I'm starting to pick up and make stuff for my next setup.
Now after reading a few post lately of what people are doing with Raspberry Pi / Arduino for monitoring and maintaining the tank, I thought I'd put up an idea I've started to play with just in case someone has already done it, or if not, it could help fuel ideas for others all ready making stuff.
My plan is to setup inline ammeter on each heater, return pump or other needed equipment, and have the controller set to give an alarm of some sort when current goes to far out of value from when either a pump or heater dies, or other type of fault.
I thought this would be a great way to know if your back up heater / equipment was working overtime to make up for something faulty.
I'm still awhile from finishing, but will put an update once I've completed anything major with it, but thought might as well put it up now as the idea could help someone else.