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You are killing it :-)I have got the following working and Tested ..
1. 8 channel relay Mains side GFCI between house and Outlets . Logic side uln2803 between relay and Pi .. Powered with its own 5v power supply.
2. DS 18B Temp sensor . controller Heater and Cooling outlet
3.Analog Float switch . Controlling a ATO Outlet
4.Adafruit pca 9685 Running led lights thru msfets irf520 testing with high power rgb led powered by 10v ps
5. running 3 12 v fans thru a second on pca 9685 powered by 12v ps to test a second light channel of 3 devices
6 . 4 port dosing pumps running thru pca9685 with a uln2830 between dosing pumps and pca9685
the only thing being powered thru the pi is the pi itself.
The dosing pump outlets. and a few other things will be broke out into separate boxes . Next step i think.
Here is the mess
I Have killed it about 10 times in the last two weeks. Luckily NOT TODAY...Nor have i burned our home down. Better half might not like that on tiny bit.
I am bit worried about the relay + ac part of the build. If you know what you are doing , it should be ok. From housing material to ac wiring and fuse gating, lot of things relevant to physical, electrical and fire safety. This is why I am leaning towards recommending the adj power strip instead of hand rolling relay based ones (that I have done till now). I am not too concerned with the dc parts , as far as electrical safety is concerned
That will determine how Lon it will be on or off. I use this to turn off the power heads in tank at night. There should be a revert check box also that you can click. That way if the device was on when it went off, when the timer ends it will turn it back on and also the other way too. Check out my photo above@Ranjib
Good morning fella. I have a question for you to do with timers and the set up of in Reef pi.
First off I have set some times to bring my lights on and off, For each light Channel I have had to add 2 times into the time pannel one on and one off. it works fine but is this the correct way of doing it?
Also when I looked at your description in the build guide I noticed I had an extra box from the one shown. I have edited the one from your BG from memory ( think I got it similar) as I'm on my brew at work but can you explain what this function will do if I use it.
Ta Joe
I recently changed heater and return pump of my biocube 29. Its almost 2 years old tank, and I felt it would be safer to proactively change those two things. This will reduce the chance of failures (just in case) as well as give me some backup option. The return pump was getting slower, so that contributed as well. I was using fluval heater (100W) and stock return pump (coralife). I went with MJ12 return pump and eheim jaeger 100W heater, because I have heard good things about them.
Mj12 is definitely a beast, i can feel its push way more water than the coralife one, though not sure if thats a good thing. A local reefer told me that its better so have slower return pump, that way water has more time to go through the filter media (this is an AIO tank, without refugium, and with chemical filtration [carbon+purigen+gfo=chemipue blue]), and rely on powerhead (mp10).
The new heater (Eheim Jaeger) is definitely better built, than fluval spec. It feels little heavy. The wire is also made of better quality insulation. But after running it for a week I am noticing it allows much bigger temperature swing than the older fluval spec. I cant think of any reason that this is better for corals. Though corals are fine, and they should be able to tolerate anything between 78-82, I am not sure temperature varies hourly in the ocean. I know there is seasonal patterns in ocean temperature, but I dont know if theres any fluctuation daily or hourly. Fluval heaters contained the temperature fluctuations to almost with 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit , while the eheim jaeger is showing as large as 1.2 degree fluctuations. This is certainly not better than my old heater. I am still keeping the new heater, since I dont know whats the impact and how this implicates the longivity of the heater, but I thought this is a very interesting observation, and something related to reef-pi, since I found this due to the temperature charts
The dip in the middle is me doing water change :)
Brilliant, Thanks @James Golden
That will determine how Lon it will be on or off. I use this to turn off the power heads in tank at night. There should be a revert check box also that you can click. That way if the device was on when it went off, when the timer ends it will turn it back on and also the other way too. Check out my photo above
The official docs were written before the auto revert option was implemented, hence the screen shot in docs does not have that checkbox (or timer as reminders).@Ranjib
Good morning fella. I have a question for you to do with timers and the set up of in Reef pi.
First off I have set some times to bring my lights on and off, For each light Channel I have had to add 2 times into the time pannel one on and one off. it works fine but is this the correct way of doing it?
Also when I looked at your description in the build guide I noticed I had an extra box from the one shown. I have edited the one from your BG from memory ( think I got it similar) as I'm on my brew at work but can you explain what this function will do if I use it.
Ta Joe
I recently changed heater and return pump of my biocube 29. Its almost 2 years old tank, and I felt it would be safer to proactively change those two things. This will reduce the chance of failures (just in case) as well as give me some backup option. The return pump was getting slower, so that contributed as well. I was using fluval heater (100W) and stock return pump (coralife). I went with MJ12 return pump and eheim jaeger 100W heater, because I have heard good things about them.
Mj12 is definitely a beast, i can feel its push way more water than the coralife one, though not sure if thats a good thing. A local reefer told me that its better so have slower return pump, that way water has more time to go through the filter media (this is an AIO tank, without refugium, and with chemical filtration [carbon+purigen+gfo=chemipue blue]), and rely on powerhead (mp10).
The new heater (Eheim Jaeger) is definitely better built, than fluval spec. It feels little heavy. The wire is also made of better quality insulation. But after running it for a week I am noticing it allows much bigger temperature swing than the older fluval spec. I cant think of any reason that this is better for corals. Though corals are fine, and they should be able to tolerate anything between 78-82, I am not sure temperature varies hourly in the ocean. I know there is seasonal patterns in ocean temperature, but I dont know if theres any fluctuation daily or hourly. Fluval heaters contained the temperature fluctuations to almost with 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit , while the eheim jaeger is showing as large as 1.2 degree fluctuations. This is certainly not better than my old heater. I am still keeping the new heater, since I dont know whats the impact and how this implicates the longivity of the heater, but I thought this is a very interesting observation, and something related to reef-pi, since I found this due to the temperature charts
The dip in the middle is me doing water change :)
I have got the following working and Tested ..
1. 8 channel relay Mains side GFCI between house and Outlets . Logic side uln2803 between relay and Pi .. Powered with its own 5v power supply.
2. DS 18B Temp sensor . controller Heater and Cooling outlet
3.Analog Float switch . Controlling a ATO Outlet
4.Adafruit pca 9685 Running led lights thru msfets irf520 testing with high power rgb led powered by 10v ps
5. running 3 12 v fans thru a second on pca 9685 powered by 12v ps to test a second light channel of 3 devices
6 . 4 port dosing pumps running thru pca9685 with a uln2830 between dosing pumps and pca9685
the only thing being powered thru the pi is the pi itself.
The dosing pump outlets. and a few other things will be broke out into separate boxes . Next step i think.
Here is the mess
I use it exactly same way
