VFD and Variable flow
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:29 pm
Hello, I’m doing some information gathering and gauging if I should undertake the Angel Reef as my tank controller. First I don’t have programming in my background and really do not know where to start. I do know where I like to be, so that’s why I’m posting here. I’m really close to buying a Reef Angel, but I would like to bounce a few questions to see if what I’m trying to do has been done or possible.
Here it goes:
I’m getting a ½ hp 3 ph motor to run a barracuda pump that is power/controlled by a VFD ( Micro AC Inverter). This will be use on a closed looped system. I would like to run this at variable flow rates, etc… wave motions (ramp up and down fast) at various intensities, feed mode (slow or no flow), and night mode (slow flow). This VFD has a 0 to 10 VDC input. Would this be possible? Can the Reef Angle be programmed to run all these flow rates at different times?
Any help or suggestion would be awesome. Testing the waters here, but I’m close to taking my drive into this open-source controller.
Thanks,
Troy
Here it goes:
I’m getting a ½ hp 3 ph motor to run a barracuda pump that is power/controlled by a VFD ( Micro AC Inverter). This will be use on a closed looped system. I would like to run this at variable flow rates, etc… wave motions (ramp up and down fast) at various intensities, feed mode (slow or no flow), and night mode (slow flow). This VFD has a 0 to 10 VDC input. Would this be possible? Can the Reef Angle be programmed to run all these flow rates at different times?
Any help or suggestion would be awesome. Testing the waters here, but I’m close to taking my drive into this open-source controller.
Thanks,
Troy