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love your new rainbowy one vintage!!
Thank you! Everything’s still got a little more to open, but they just keep getting better!

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All looking good. Getting some very nice PE on the SPS! Is that a Neptune Bounce?
Yessir. I’ve had the Neptune for about a month. It’s been in a small mushrokm cage refusing to attach. It actually tried escaping through the tiny holes in the cage. I thought I might lose it :(. But i convinced it to go back in and relocated and finally it attached to some rock on a plug soooo…freedom was granted!
 
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Yesterday I converted my return pump to run off of USB-C instead of using the supplied AC cord + power brick.

This reduces my electricity consumption by approx 150 watts per day.

And

Added 22 hours of runtime to my battery backup station. Only change in the below two pics Is a cable swap

Went from 35 hours of runtime to 57 hours! A drastic increase

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That's a big difference. But how is your return pump only pulling 10w !?! What gpg do you estimate?
 
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That's a big difference. But how is your return pump only pulling 10w !?! What gpg do you estimate?
Approx 400 gph at this setting.
About 5x turnover through sump per hour

Both the controller and the station give me a live readout of watts being used and they are the same or within 1 watt of each other
 

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Wild! I run my sand through the dishwasher weekly and it's never that clean.

Also that's a crazy amount of power lost in the conversation.
 
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That's a big difference. But how is your return pump only pulling 10w !?! What gpg do you estimate?
It’s like a car. Two ways to make it faster - add power, or reduce weight :)

I can get more runtime by using a bigger battery, or making my consumption less

In this case, a 45$ kit got me 22 HOURS of extra runtime. I’m still thrilled with this result. Better than I expected
 

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Yea, but 10w is exceptionally low. Apart from battery life, how long do you think your tank can run like that before needing more equipment?
 
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Yea, but 10w is exceptionally low. Apart from battery life, how long do you think your tank can run like that before needing more equipment?
Depends on ambient temperature in my house, which depends on ambient temp outside my house

I would say 24 hours min

If it’s very hot out, 100+ I can always get cold water in water bottles and float it

If it’s very cold out, I can always get hot water in water bottles and float it

Then just swap out bottles as needed

If it went past 24 hours I’d start my generator, I keep 40g of gas on hand.

Then I would Use the generator in the day time for all the tanks equipment and to recharge my battery stations and then use battery overnight for the return pump and heater. Repeat As needed
 
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