I don't think I'm at all unique among Apex users in this but I like to program momentary buttons to control all sorts of functions. Presently, I have two break out boxes with 7 different buttons to do things like turn on a light for a set time, activate a saltwater mixing pump, start a water change, or kill the skimmer and ATO for a couple hours.
To set these up, I need a breakout box (which essentially just plugs into an I/O connector and breaks out the wires into 6 positive wires and a common bus), the momentary buttons, wires to connect the bottom to the BOB, and something to mount the buttons to (I typically drill square tube steel or square PVC pipe and mount them there).
It seems like it would be easy -- for a fabricator, not me -- to make a compact, mountable box with 6 momentary buttons directly wired to a cable with an I/O plug. This seems like something Neptune or even a third-party like Avast could sell a lot of. It would replace the BOB and streamline the total bill of materials so I would anticipate it could be sold for a good profit while still saving the consumer money and headache. Has anyone seen anything like this out there?
To set these up, I need a breakout box (which essentially just plugs into an I/O connector and breaks out the wires into 6 positive wires and a common bus), the momentary buttons, wires to connect the bottom to the BOB, and something to mount the buttons to (I typically drill square tube steel or square PVC pipe and mount them there).
It seems like it would be easy -- for a fabricator, not me -- to make a compact, mountable box with 6 momentary buttons directly wired to a cable with an I/O plug. This seems like something Neptune or even a third-party like Avast could sell a lot of. It would replace the BOB and streamline the total bill of materials so I would anticipate it could be sold for a good profit while still saving the consumer money and headache. Has anyone seen anything like this out there?