What is your blackout/brownout mitigation? Tank crashed.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:55 pm
Hi Everyone,
I was recently on vacation, and two things happened that caused my tank to crash and a minor water spillage when restarted by a friend who was only able to get to the tank 3 days late.
1: For some reason, my cable modem dropped connection (I think I have the motorola SB6121), and it remained offline. It does this every once in a while, and I believe it's a known issue.
2: The fishtank tripped the circuit breaker (it's a 20amp fuse). I have no idea why, since it was able to handle the load before. Everything was tested at least 2 weeks prior to my leave to ensure power was not an issue. The cable modem is not on the same circuit.
There was no blackout, nor a brownout that I am aware of. Not sure why both subsystems failed at the same time.
I have a few questions:
1. What is your blackout/brownout practices?
2. Is there a way to get the ReefAngel portal to send me an email if it recognizes a blackout/brownout? or can't contact the ReefAngel at given intervals?
There wasn't a whole lot of blackout/brownout search hits, so I figured I'd ask.
I was recently on vacation, and two things happened that caused my tank to crash and a minor water spillage when restarted by a friend who was only able to get to the tank 3 days late.
1: For some reason, my cable modem dropped connection (I think I have the motorola SB6121), and it remained offline. It does this every once in a while, and I believe it's a known issue.
2: The fishtank tripped the circuit breaker (it's a 20amp fuse). I have no idea why, since it was able to handle the load before. Everything was tested at least 2 weeks prior to my leave to ensure power was not an issue. The cable modem is not on the same circuit.
There was no blackout, nor a brownout that I am aware of. Not sure why both subsystems failed at the same time.
I have a few questions:
1. What is your blackout/brownout practices?
2. Is there a way to get the ReefAngel portal to send me an email if it recognizes a blackout/brownout? or can't contact the ReefAngel at given intervals?
There wasn't a whole lot of blackout/brownout search hits, so I figured I'd ask.