Drip hot/cold or just cold?

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You keep mentioning Apex, do you have more information or model a number?


DIDYSIS said:
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For the curious people who cant track all your stuff everyday, here is mine,

Here is the Temp reading from my apex for a week, as you can see with the weather getting warmer, was 75 today the cold water is getting warmer, i will be changing my flow soon to adjust to a lower temp overall with my system
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I have the aquarium controller called a Neptune Apex, allows me to control my system as well as monitor it and get alerts when something happens. I have the full Apex setup, with an extra power unit, plus I have the leak detection unit as well. Yes it is an investment but i have thousands in stock here so its well worth it for me and really made me less worried about keeping up with everything, I can get on my phone anytime and check how things are looking. I would recommend even the basic unit for someone to better monitor and control their system and have the peace of mind.

https://www.neptunesystems.com/products/apex-controllers/apex-controller-system/


West1 said:
You keep mentioning Apex, do you have more information or model a number?
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DIDYSIS said:
I have the aquarium controller called a Neptune Apex, allows me to control my system as well as monitor it and get alerts when something happens. I have the full Apex setup, with an extra power unit, plus I have the leak detection unit as well. Yes it is an investment but i have thousands in stock here so its well worth it for me and really made me less worried about keeping up with everything, I can get on my phone anytime and check how things are looking. I would recommend even the basic unit for someone to better monitor and control their system and have the peace of mind.

https://www.neptunesystems.com/products/apex-controllers/apex-controller-system/
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Baller!


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I have an electric hot water heater so I'm not sure if by dripping hot I'm saving much over just using my electric tank heaters? Does anyone have any thoughts on that?

I was thinking about building a heat exchanger but couldn't figure out how to get water from my sump (~24"high) into the heat exchanger and then into the plumbing for my laundry tub. I don't have a floor drain nearby. Has anyone run into problems getting rid of old water?
 
DIDYSIS said:
I have the aquarium controller called a Neptune Apex, allows me to control my system as well as monitor it and get alerts when something happens. I have the full Apex setup, with an extra power unit, plus I have the leak detection unit as well. Yes it is an investment but i have thousands in stock here so its well worth it for me and really made me less worried about keeping up with everything, I can get on my phone anytime and check how things are looking. I would recommend even the basic unit for someone to better monitor and control their system and have the peace of mind.

https://www.neptunesystems.com/products/apex-controllers/apex-controller-system/
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Those look awesome!
 
Best thing to do is get a Kill a watt tester and see actually how much power you use monthly for your heaters to run, That is what I have here and the apex monitors it as well, Hooked it up and saw hundreds a year for heaters a knew I could find a better way to do it all. Depends on the size of your system, temps, everything but having a monitoring system that can tell you actually how much your heaters run will give you a start.
 
I call it an investment and for my sanity, take the fact that I have 39 stingrays here from breeding size to young pups, Figure the cheapest is worth maybe 250.00 and the most expensive a couple thousand. At the very low end I have $10k in stingrays, at the more normal end maybe $30K if you were to buy them all, Does a few hundred in a monitoring system sound worth while to you?

ultimatejay said:
Baller!


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DIDYSIS said:
I call it an investment and for my sanity, take the fact that I have 39 stingrays here from breeding size to young pups, Figure the cheapest is worth maybe 250.00 and the most expensive a couple thousand. At the very low end I have $10k in stingrays, at the more normal end maybe $30K if you were to buy them all, Does a few hundred in a monitoring system sound worth while to you?
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Yes, it makes perfect sense. That's why I said baller. If you can afford 30k in fish than you can afford several hundred to thousands in monitors.
The average Joe here doesn't have a huge system that would need a big system like you have.


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DIDYSIS said:
Best thing to do is get a Kill a watt tester and see actually how much power you use monthly for your heaters to run, That is what I have here and the apex monitors it as well, Hooked it up and saw hundreds a year for heaters a knew I could find a better way to do it all. Depends on the size of your system, temps, everything but having a monitoring system that can tell you actually how much your heaters run will give you a start.
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What did you do to get your heaters to run less? Anything besides running hot drip?

Nevermind just i just read the whole thread.

I still dont know if i can trust a hot water heater....

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