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Can these pumps be controlled with RA?

Not yet

Did anyone get their hands on these yet?
I'm interested to know if the master can change the speed of the slave.
I just saw this video where the master changed speed, but the slave didn't follow.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9wDpjBOao[/youtube]

From what I have read about the pumps they have the same connection as the WP pumps, the wireless functionality is between the 2 pumps.

It is not wireless in the way the Vortechs are where you have a wet side and dry side and no wires co in the tank.

So if you want them to run in sync or anti-sync that will be done wirelessly.

The pumps themselves are not wireless they both still need a controller and a power supply and all the cables and connections that the WP pumps do.

All the wireless ability does is let you communicate between the 2 or more pumps.

So they should be able to be controlled by the RA and keeping them in sync or anti-sync can be done by the RA.

But if you control them with RA, you would loose the wireless capability.
The way I see them is exactly like vortech has their pumps too. You have a wireless driver, and the pump + a power supply connected to it.
In the video, when they changed the speed, the slave didn't follow. On the vortech, if you change the speed of the master, all slaves follow it.
What I have in mind is creating a wireless jebao module, just like the rf module, but if the slaves don't follow the master, it is pointless.

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I just re-read some of the threads on RC and R2R I can't find where they were talking about the wireless, but I did see that some one said the speed is controlled independent of each other thru the controller for that pump.
Master controls the speed of the Master and Slave controls the speed of the Slave.

That's what I was afraid.
If the master can't control the speed of the slave, there is no way to wirelessly control anything , except the sync mode, which is not going to gives much for controllability, because we really don't use their sync modes anyway.

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Yeah i think the speed is controlled independently.

That's the way I've read things about it.
It seems like the wireless functionality only controls the the sync modes.

rimai wrote:Did anyone get their hands on these yet?
I'm interested to know if the master can change the speed of the slave.
I just saw this video where the master changed speed, but the slave didn't follow.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9wDpjBOao[/youtube]

I just got 2 of these. I have connected them to the RA+ just like the WP's. I have not tried the wireless controllers.

I'd be interested to see what the wireless functions of the controller are, of tot wouldn't mind hooking them up that way.

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