Your RA backboard\cord management system

rossbryant1956 · Post by **rossbryant1956** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:33 pm

I am about to build a backboard\cord management system for all my RA stuff and wanted to ask folks to post pictures of the systems they came up with to do this. Your ideas and thoughts as well as the problems you faced and how you fixed them would be very helpful.

Thank you in advance for sharing your systems with us.

Ross

rossbryant1956 · Post by **rossbryant1956** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:35 pm

Here is an example of what I am looking for...Thanks to the poster that shared this with us.

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:24 am

I wish mine was like that

Piper · Post by **Piper** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:17 pm

I just had to put a new sump under my tank and revamped all the wiring while I was at it. Here's a few pics:

Picasa Album

~Charlie

rossbryant1956 · Post by **rossbryant1956** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:02 pm

Thanks, Charlie.

Come on guys, lets see some pictures!

00Warpig00 · Post by **00Warpig00** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:37 pm

I'll have to shoot a couple of pics of mine the next time I don't have a 44 gallon Brute filled with Saltwater in front of mine. lol. damn I just refilled it over the weekend too. lol

Nick

jsclownfish · Post by **jsclownfish** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:28 am

wow, I really need to work on this.

and this was a cleaned up version.

It's tough to fit this all under a 75g stand with a sump.
-Jon

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DrewPalmer04 · Post by **DrewPalmer04** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:57 am

Wow I wish I had that many relays free lol!!!

jsclownfish · Post by **jsclownfish** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:06 pm

yeah, you can't see the 3 power strips underneath all that for the fluorescents, halides, and the rest. I also didn't have the dose pumps plugged in for that picture.

-Jon

caliman · Post by **caliman** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:22 pm

Hi all -
I just spent many hours mounting mine this weekend. Here are the outside cabinet pics. Inside to follow soon.

It all came to together with some scrap wood from the garage and some straps I made with drawer liner and grommets. I am pretty happy.

matt

Smotz · Post by **Smotz** » Fri May 17, 2013 5:46 pm

I took a different approach to cable management - I hid them!

agentgreen · Post by **agentgreen** » Sat May 18, 2013 5:17 am

Piper wrote:I just had to put a new sump under my tank and revamped all the wiring while I was at it. Here's a few pics:

Picasa Album

~Charlie

What are those tan plastic boxes your RA cables are running into in the first picture? They look like something I need

rossbryant1956 · Post by **rossbryant1956** » Sat May 18, 2013 5:41 am

That's just cord management stuff, Home Depot has tons of it.

cosmith71 · Post by **cosmith71** » Sat May 18, 2013 6:05 am

Some nice ideas here! As systems become more complex, wires become an issue.

Is that a dual RA dosing pump?

--Colin

dapg8gt · Post by **dapg8gt** » Sat May 18, 2013 3:16 pm

Great idea for the thread.. This is my next part of my new build. . Thinking I'm going to use the door like the first pic. . Is anybody having issues with the relay boxes under the tank. . Like humidity wise.. Also thinking of moving the whole shooting match into a larger cabinet next to the tank that im going to have my Ato res in. . Im gonna need extensions for most everything though.. might be more trouble than its worth.. Anybody have the head unit like 4' from the tank? My concern would be the PH probe not being accurate the farther it is away from the tank. . I can extend the temp no problem but not sure on the PH.. already got a longer SVGA Cable from a second hand store and its black too

..still need to test that one though as I heard not all will work. .

Will post what I come up with in a few weeks.

cosmith71 · Post by **cosmith71** » Sat May 18, 2013 3:41 pm

I've always kept my controllers under the tank without problems. The back of my stand is open, though.

JoshSD · Post by **JoshSD** » Sun May 19, 2013 3:33 pm

When mine was on the door I had a drop of water go in the controller in space around the temp probe plugs and fried one of the chips on the board (Roberto graciously repaired it, I bought a plus board upgrade anyway). Must have happened during maintenance.

I've since moved everything outside the cabinet and have it mounted on the wall next to the tank. I throw a towel over the RA when I'm doing maintenance now.

dapg8gt · Post by **dapg8gt** » Mon May 20, 2013 11:40 pm

JoshSD wrote:When mine was on the door I had a drop of water go in the controller in space around the temp probe plugs and fried one of the chips on the board (Roberto graciously repaired it, I bought a plus board upgrade anyway). Must have happened during maintenance.

I've since moved everything outside the cabinet and have it mounted on the wall next to the tank. I throw a towel over the RA when I'm doing maintenance now.

Thanks for the heads up on that issue something I need to keep in mind.

The back of my stand is open also so I think I'll be ok with the main unit and relay away from the area where I change socks and reactors.

I made a sheet of plywood finish grade ply that I'm gonna run all my cords behind , just having the modules and relay on it hopefully with a nice cord management approach and thinking of routing my head unit through on that outside wall of the stand with the unit in view and accessible . Still in progress and not too high on the to do list but I think I have my general idea down for my design. Weary on drilling the stand but it will most likely happen

. I'll post back with pics.. Warning it will be a while LOL..

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