Reef Angel Forum

Any idea when the it will be released?
I'm waiting for the DNS option.

Go get it, start using it not sure what roberto has cooking, but I think Alan and I are mostly done with our updates.

I was going to do that.
I know the DNS update is in there as well as the webserver authentication section and now the DC Pump Offset.
As well as a couple of knew DC Pump presets.

This should be a great update.

Also high resolution dimming, SunLocation, Moon, Tide, and TimedPorts (although that still needs some documentation, but it's usable..)

Yeah, mostly waiting to see if people find any bugs, but we are due for a release already.

The timed ports are your stop, pause, play that you created for your AWC?

The DCPump changes at this point are pretty big. I'm scared of the new stuff that Lee did because it pulls so much out of ReefAngel.cpp and he doesn't even have a DC Pump to try it on. 8)

I'll pull it down tonight and see if it will make mine go.

Steve tested the latest and its working. Plus Roberto pulled it already I believe.

Yes the TimedPort is what I created for the WaterChange. I'll write up some examples later.

I tested the offset.
I didn't really test the other pump modes or the threshold.

It most likely would not have worked at all if my code wasn't working as I basically centralized where we actually write the PWM value so that we just had to do that once.

As far as I can tell the DCPump stuff is working fine on my reef angel with 2 and soon to be 4 (as soon as they clear customs) DC Pumps. I didn't make any changes to my INO file to get them to work either.

You shouldn't need to change anything for the pumps.
The only reason I did was because I had the Else Mode in my code and as part of my random waves.

That code had to be removed to use the code in the library.

Right. There are thankfully very few things that need to be changed in current .ino files to run the new code, but moving Else mode out is one of them. Now you can just do a in your INO, though, so that should be pretty simple for most folks.

Yeah. It should.

So I have a question for you all (hopefully on this topic)
I downloaded libraries and used the wizard for my WP40 on the LowATO channel about 2 weeks ago. All I did was add 'LowATO=DCPump' (or something like that) to the code. I set it in Sine mode at 70%. 3 days later, the pump died on me.
Since I can only understand about half of what you all discuss here, did I do something wrong or it shouldn't have anything to do?

You're using the dev libraries? You may need to raise the threshold (the default is 30) You may want to try 35.

ReefAngel.DCPump.Threshold=35;

What does the threshold do and what could have it done to the pump? Yes I downloaded the dev libararies...

If your speed goes too low on the dc jaebo pumps they cut off...the threshold sets the low end speed

I have a WP-25 and a WP-40.
The cut off on my WP-40 is 25% and my WP-25 is 30%.
I can't say that is the limit for all of them thought.

OK, so it wouldn't damage the pump even if set too low. Am I correct?

As far as I know you just have to reset the device.

No. The pump will just stop and you will need to pull the power from it to get it started again.

The default threshold if you've never run the dev code before should be 30 percent. Did that not happen? I tried to detect if that memory location had anything in it and if it didn't it would do 30% and write that there until you change it to something else.

The new RW series Jebao pumps can supposedly be run down to 10%, but that's with the Jebao controllers, so it's possible that it's not really 10% of 0-5V, just that the controller has 10 speed settings to choose from which the retailers market as "can be dimmed down to 10%." I'm getting some in the next few days, so I'll let folks know at what voltage they cut off.

Sacohen wrote:I have a WP-25 and a WP-40.
The cut off on my WP-40 is 25% and my WP-25 is 30%.
I can't say that is the limit for all of them thought.

It's not. My WP-40 turns off at 19% and my WP-25 turns off at 24% Connected to Daylight/Actinic channels


Out of curiosity, which ports are you using? I wonder if they cut off at different %'s based on whether they are connected via Analog dimming/PWM Dimming / Actinic-Daylight channels.

My 40 is on the actinic and my 25 is on the daylight. PWM.