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Tank:
Red Sea Max 34G mixed reef...softs and LPS. also 2 clowns, a small yellow eye tang, a watchman goby and 6 line wrasse along with the usual clean up crew crabs, snails and shrimp. Approx 60lbs live rock, 45-50lbs live sand. established for over 2 years.
Lighting:
12 actinic CREE XP LEDs ran in series connected to a Mean Well ELN-60-48P(output is turned down to 800ma)
12 daylight white CREE XP LEDs ran in serioes connected to a Mean Well ELN-60-48P (outout 100%)
these are both hooked up to a daylight controller I got from rapid led. I plan to connect the drivers dimmer wires directly to the RA once it arrives. The power cord for the drivers I plan to leave plugged into the wall full time so I am only planning to use RA to run the dimming from 0-100% but not ever shut the drivers off...I hate that crazy flashes that are caused when the drivers power is cut.
2 1W actinic blue LEDS connected to a small moonlight driver. I have these ran parallel to make them dim.
Ideally I would like to have my Actinics fire on first at 10am and ramp up from 0-100% over the coarse of 30-60 mins. Around 1030-11am I would like for my whites to kick on and also ramp up from 0-100% over the coarse of 30-60 mins. I would like my whites to ramp down and kick off at 9pm and the actinics at about 930-10pm. I want to replicate sunrise and sunset so if my #s are off or if I should run the whites and actinics at the same time cycles...please let me know what the best set up would be.
I also wouldnt mind a random lighting effect now and then during the day to replicate clouds or what not, but nothing to crazy like flickering lights.
Currently I leave my moonlights on all day and night..gives the tank a tad extra blue
Fans: I have one plug for all of my fans. I would like these to be on as long as I have my LEDS running (approx 10am-10pm)
Wavemaker:
I have 2 Hydor Koralia Evolution 550's I want to use on the wave maker function. I would like them to alternate approx 20 seconds each, or at random. At night (about 9pm) I would like the duration between the 2 to be longer to create a calmer current or possibly even just kick one of the 2 pumps off completely. Then resume back to normal around 11am. I would also like these to be shut off completely during feeding.
Skimmer:
Is it possible to set the skimmer up to be shut off for 30 mins when I am feeding? I usually feed my fish and corals at the same time and manually shut off the skimmer.
ATO...I do not have a set up for this YET but plan to work on that very soon. Im sure the standard settings on the RA will be fine for basic ATO function?
Temp/PH: I plan to run one temp sensor in the tanks overflow as well as the PH probe.
I have a chiller, 2 main pumps and UV but I dont think I care to set those items up on the RA at this point in time.
I think that is all for now. So how would I go about doing all of this without screwing everything up? I am 100% new to tank controllers and have NO CLUE about the coding of them.
By the way....is there a way I can use this to code my wife as well? Seems like this controller does everything so it wouldnt hurt to ask
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