new user questions

[d0lph1n]

Hi,

I got my by basic RA few days ago. Roberto, thank you, the shipping and packaging were excellent.

So far, I'm very impressed by the level of customization, how well it's made and user friendly (if you have windows). I'm a little disappointed for not having an ethernet port (too cheap to buy the wifi module) especially since I use mac and had to run windows on a virtual machine.

RAgen was used to generate my custom code.

Please let me know:

1. Ph related: I used pinpoint ph7 &10 to calibrate the ph probe: ph7 generated 530 and ph10 generated 840.
Are these numbers ok? After calibration, if I go back to the calibration menu I don't see those numbers anymore.
Do I have to calibrate everytime I compile a new program? How to avoid this?

2. ATO related: Since I'm planning to add a sump but there is no way to drill the tank I will use an HOB overflow. The ATO sensors will be mounted in the main tank (i think) and I'd like the high level ATO to control port 1 (ato pump ) and port 8 (main pump) to avoid overflow in the main tank.

3. Upgrade related: I didin't open the reef angel's case. How easy it will be to upgrade the arduino cpu? Lets say to add a faster arduino or an arduino ethernet or BT?

Thank you and keep up the excellent work.

[rimai]

1. No, you don't need to recalibrate everytime.
The settings are store in the internal memory that are kept even if the controller has no power.
There are several way to reset those values if you ever want to. You can use Dave's Client (requires Windows), Curt's Status app (requires wifi), use internet browser (requires wifi) and hard coding into your PDE. Very shortly, you will also be able to do that through Android app and iPhone app (requires wifi).

2. Easy to do that.
Simply choose SingleATOLow on RAGen. Then to customize the code to make the high switch a safety one, you can the code from this:

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ReefAngel.SingleATOLow(Port1);

to this:

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  if (ReefAngel.HighATO.IsActive()) 
    ReefAngel.SingleATOLow(Port1);
  else
  {
    ReefAngel.Relay.Off(Port1);  //Turn Port1 off
    ReefAngel.Relay.Off(Port8);  //Turn Port8 off
  }

3. Not easily accomplished.

[d0lph1n]

Roberto, I appreciate your fast reply.
I will get the wifi module asap.
What if I rewrite the internal memory with ragen?

I got it. There is an option to setup the pht7 & ph10 internal memory values. Awesome.

[rimai]

Yeah that works too. I forgot that one.