Reef Angel Forum

Hey there. Just got my RA+ yesterday and have been having a fun time learning and getting it setup. Everything is going well so far, but I do have one question I havent been able to find the answer to.

I need to run 2 seperate ato pumps. One will ato with kalk for the reef and the other will be another freshwater system. I have 2 aqualifter pumps and was planning on putting one float switch in each system to trigger their respective ato pumps.

Using the wizard, I selected the single low float switch option and configured outlet spot 2 to trigger from that. However, I wasnt able to select the single high switch option to trigger a second relay on outlet 6.

Seems like this should be possible, but the wizard did not have the option. Ideas????

P.S. I realize the standard ato dual float setup is safer, but I have two separate systems I need to top off. I will use timeouts and eventually a high ph shutoff on the kalk topoff for the reef as a safety.

Thanks for any input. Just been playing with the wizard so far, seems like it may be time to learn some coding.

I can't remember if that would work.
If I remember correctly, only one function can be used at a time.
You would have to test it to see if it works.

Worked with the wizard a little more last night and it definitely looks like only one ato function can be used at a time. By designating either single high or single low as an input for a particular relay, it then will not allow a second relay to utilize the second unused input. Bummer.

Not a problem I was expecting, but nature of the beast. I will go ahead and run one ato for now on the reef and then work on figuring this out. I imagine it could be done with code modification, but not from the wizard. Never coded much, so my daily topping off on the second system will be my motivation to read up and learn something new.

Correct.
We can easily do the top off function, but there wouldn't be any timeout.
You can do something like this:

The wizard may not let you, doesn't mean you can't use the functions together. How do you plan on having them both active? Wouldn't they either kick in together or one kick in seperately? I would setup some conditionals to determine which is active when you want it..

ie. if low is active, then make the high float switch activate the HighATO function. else use the LowATO function for RO/DI... I don't think you need to forgo the timeout usage, but need to understand a little better the usage to get the right setup to do what you want.

Thanks for the replies folks. Been trying to digest all this and I must say that I am blown away so far by how awesome the reef angel is.

I currently have the single ato low setup through wizard to control kalk ato on the reef. Working great for the past 24 hours.

So here is my setup. I have the reef tank and a freshwater tank in the same room. I have a big barrell (about 50g) that is hooked up to my ro/di system on a float valve. From that barrell I manually fill another 7 gallon jug that I miss with kalk and refill about once a week. This 7 gallon is what is currently running off the singlelow ato for reef. Very cool.

I would like to use the second ato (single high) to top off my freshwater tank directly from the 50g ro/di barrell as needed. So two independent systems. Using aqualifter pumps. I havent had time dig in much more than getting everything dialed for the first setup. I have timeout setup on the ato I am using now, would like to also have a high PH shutoff on there as well. Not having timeout on the second ato is not as critical so I can live that. I will keep reading and trying things. I dont even know enough yet to edit code. Just making sure there wasnt something simple I was missing through the wizard setup to do this.

High PH ATO disable code: Change the PH cutoff value and the port you have your pump.