Thanks. Yeah it's going to take a couple months to save the funds for my tank. That gives me some time to figure out how I want to do the overflows. I might do it like yours, so I can get it close to the wall. Have you had to adjust your gate valve, since you set it up? That's one reason I was considering the bean is, because from what I read it's more capable to tune itself. Plus I'm going to reuse the stand I had built for the 210 I had and it doesn't have holes in it to run plumbing through. I guess it won't be too hard to mark and cut the holes in the right place.
300 gallon SA/CE community build thread!!
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The main gate is pretty much set it and forget it. If I let my socks get real dirty or the sump gets a lil low it'll need a slight adjustment. I have the apex set up to turn the main pumps off for five minutes to feed. Hit one button, feed, walk away..............
which reminds me........
The tank is online........
Physical installation took about an hour and a half. Drilled through the wall, through my closet, into the office. Ran a 50' ethernet cable to my router. Controller display sits on the tank itself, then the base module(which all probes connect to) and two energy bars( 4 and 8). Aquabus cables connect all pieces and the order doesnt matter. Thew an Ip address in my laptop and I was online about 30 seconds after i turned everything on. Iphone ap as well. Everything controlled at your fingertips.
Basic programming took about another hour but I'm running three seperate lighting periods and have temperature setpoints for most of my gear. Tank is sitting around 81.2-81.5 with no heater on. Ph 7.6-7.7.
It also graphs everything as well. On off cyles, fluctuations, everything. Datalogs too. And you dont have to be online for the tank and aquacontroller to operate normally. Programming enables you the option of setting default settings in the event it goes offline. And emails me letting me know something is amiss.
It's a really cool toy.......just scratching the surface too
Physical installation took about an hour and a half. Drilled through the wall, through my closet, into the office. Ran a 50' ethernet cable to my router. Controller display sits on the tank itself, then the base module(which all probes connect to) and two energy bars( 4 and 8). Aquabus cables connect all pieces and the order doesnt matter. Thew an Ip address in my laptop and I was online about 30 seconds after i turned everything on. Iphone ap as well. Everything controlled at your fingertips.
Basic programming took about another hour but I'm running three seperate lighting periods and have temperature setpoints for most of my gear. Tank is sitting around 81.2-81.5 with no heater on. Ph 7.6-7.7.
It also graphs everything as well. On off cyles, fluctuations, everything. Datalogs too. And you dont have to be online for the tank and aquacontroller to operate normally. Programming enables you the option of setting default settings in the event it goes offline. And emails me letting me know something is amiss.
It's a really cool toy.......just scratching the surface too
Thanks! it definately wasnt cheap, but there were things along the way that I hadnt accounted for. The tank and stand were right about 4K delivered. Sump was around 600 bucks, controller was about 600. But......
the electrical cost a few hundred to run a new line and when we put thew flooring in we discovered the slab was very unlevel, so we leveled the whole downstairs, before we did the flooring. Cost another grand on top of a 4K floor to begin with so the whole project was around 10k, but the tank was half that
i had the tank wake me up this morning. I set an audible alarm, on my phone, for when the dusk lights kicked on
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Not that I'll use it all the time, but it's funny just how hands on this thing can be. The swithes on the iphone ap are immediate. Turn something off and it's off. it's funny, because theres about a 3 second lag when I'm either on my laptop(wireless) and Imac(wired). Iphone is fastest of the three. You don't get programming detail like you do on the laptop. When you're online you get access to about 98% of the systems abilities. The other 2% are only accessible from the display at the tank. Things like feed timers, which turn off and on main pumps, alarms, emails, etc, can only be changed at the tank. Leaves less room for error for inadvertantly hitting a switch, or the tank going offline, but even if it did, all current programming parameters continue as normal. You just don't have remote access......
Now I gotta figure out my drain situation for a drip system. Supply is easy. My drain location really sucks. I'm going to have to go up in elevation somehow.....otherwise I'm plumbing a drain through 4 walls.............
time to go study
..........Not that I'll use it all the time, but it's funny just how hands on this thing can be. The swithes on the iphone ap are immediate. Turn something off and it's off. it's funny, because theres about a 3 second lag when I'm either on my laptop(wireless) and Imac(wired). Iphone is fastest of the three. You don't get programming detail like you do on the laptop. When you're online you get access to about 98% of the systems abilities. The other 2% are only accessible from the display at the tank. Things like feed timers, which turn off and on main pumps, alarms, emails, etc, can only be changed at the tank. Leaves less room for error for inadvertantly hitting a switch, or the tank going offline, but even if it did, all current programming parameters continue as normal. You just don't have remote access......
Now I gotta figure out my drain situation for a drip system. Supply is easy. My drain location really sucks. I'm going to have to go up in elevation somehow.....otherwise I'm plumbing a drain through 4 walls.............
time to go study
Thanks guys!! Appreciate the compliments. I'm headed out of town for the weekend, but I plan on posting a bunch of new pics when I get back on Tues.
