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one like this would do it

and a different twist

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I see that now that the reading is the same pluged in or not pluged in have you tried to reload the controller code others have had some luck with this but I doubt that it will effect your readings

start by putting tank water in a cup and place the probe into that if it reads right then start looking for possible electrical leaks, ato switches can be a good starting place unplug items one at a time until you see the ph read right. anything in the water could be the casue of the bad readings if...

if you plug a power strip into the RA relay box and then the 4 kessils into the power strip you would have on off control of the lights. the first kessil has the cable from the PWM(Analog) connections on the RA pluged into it and then each of the other 3 would daisy chain off the first lamp the (PWM...

That's so odd... The relay switches only hot. It leaves ground and neutral connected. ya same as any light switch in any house.... im perplexed by this.. I cant even understand what would cause it to be able to do this. (Cheap power supplies) but as far as my electronics background tells me if the ...

did I mention this is not a RA only issue... Im more just looking for suggestions on a way around this.. and BTW I did look over the board designs and as expected found noting that stood out to me :) oddly it does not do this if on a switched outlet with a light switch (no RA) so it is a relay only ...

yes i tried a few different ones. From what Jess was saying this is a issue with the 48volt power supply for the kessil and many of the lower end timer relays (timer type power strips). I have the 150 at home and do not see this on my RA relay box. i will try swamping the relay box out with the newe...

also this is an older relay box with the power cord hard wired into it

not too shure how to explain this one.. I have 8 kessil 150's connected to a power strip when i plug it into the wall all 8 come on and whn i unplug it all 8 go off and stay off (as expected) the problem comes when i plug the lights into the relay box they will all come on no issues and they turn of...

I was running into to same issue last night with the low PH reading (6.00) in the test solutions it was 7.00 and 10.00 put some tank water in a cup and that was 8.00 but probe in the tank and it went down.. Turned out to be a ATO float switch was causing the leak and the bad readings. with Roberto'...

I was running into to same issue last night with the low PH reading (6.00) in the test solutions it was 7.00 and 10.00 put some tank water in a cup and that was 8.00 but probe in the tank and it went down.. Turned out to be a ATO float switch was causing the leak and the bad readings. with Roberto's...

Also the PH display is still leaving screen droppings. if the PH displays XX.XX and then displays X.XX after the last printed number it leaves a bit of the 5 chr displayed..

So this is what I came up with as a finalized snipit. this will display temp1 on the home display screen in blue if under temp low green if between temp low and temp high and red if over temp high Im happy might be a way to compact the sode a bit but this is working now if (!ReefAngel.Splash) { if (...

Crude. any way to tell is the RA splash screen is being displayed just before the main display page is shown..

Bingo!.. That did the trick...

Thanks much

Ok I get that test now it is referencing the screen number. so the code does keep it to just screen 0 but the next problem is that the splash screen is screen zero and the sub menu is still the screen number of the parent screen. so when I press the joystick the temp is still displayed on the submen...

I had it display the Value and it always stays zero..

Seems to not have an effect.. it still diplays on the reefangle splash screen and on the main screen and on the sub menu screen when you push the joystick down.. Humm...

but it does not error

PaulRA.cpp: In function 'void loop()':
PaulRA:91: error: 'MenuItem_2014' was not declared in this scope
PaulRA:91: error: 'PARAMS_2014' was not declared in this scope

Ok next question, Im using the new screen layout and wanted to put a large text of the temp1 in the extra space provided the below code does that for me but the problem is it is drwn over the splash screen and any sub menus. Is there a way to get it to display on just the home screen.. #include <Ree...

Thank you I just ran the wizard and saw that Silly me... Trying to do things the hard way.. I suppose I could add a line of code that says if the kessil is on turn off the led as well that way the moon light would be off if the main light is on but the time settings would still control it Weee im ha...

I have a Kessil A150 as my main tank light and a simple Blue LED without dimming for my Moonlight I would like my moon light to come on 2 hours before the main lights and go off 2 hours after the main light I assume I set both up as standard lights ReefAngel.StandardLights I also assume there is a w...

ok will give that a shot.. I could just be being anal about this HAHA I have owned the reef angel for nearly 1.5 years and have not changed out my home brew controller yet Of course I modeled it after the reefangle of course mine is as large as a car.. (guess when you copy the best you wind up with ...

True I have Servo Grease as well that is used for the gear train on servos so i know it is nylon safe.. Im thinking to get to the sweaky part i would almost have to pull it apart. or need a penatrating lube wich would likely not be electronics safe. I may have to live with this for now..

Roberto, any thoughts on how the joy stick could be lubed, the joystick on my is tight and squeaks when moved, it is tight enough that it makes getting from menu to menu a bit difficult.. I'm thinking a dry lube. Graphite would be best but its conductive so could make a mess of things... I was going...

nice work I like the layout. Im guessing in time all the sub menus could be dolled up to be more graphical.. Its w nice feature set you have going here..

ok they say the discription of insanity is repeating your same steps overand over expecting diffrent results... I must be insane... :) Ok so followed the above steps on my first PC and putty connected just fine blue light plus a reboot.. then i went back into the ide and opened the serial port Same ...

tried that too still no love.. im wondering if my bt dongle is the problem wonder if a different brand might play different but it still seems like its coming down to a windows 7 issue I just don't understand why the ide thinks that the port is in use or what I may have set in windows that is captur...

Thank you for the suggestion


That had no effect.. I tell you im hatin win 7 more and more each night

ok 2nd laptop win7 thin installed device by discovery but this time it added the 2 ports automatically both input and output port I have the ide configured to use the one listed as the output port but I still get a port in use just before it would start the upload. and I replaced the dll file as wel...