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Sorry for the delay, here are the pictures.

I also have a pH expansion for sale. This was never used. $60 plus $10 priority mail shipping. Only 1 shipping charge if both are ordered.

I am open to offers on each.

Thanks!

I have Reef Angel Expansion (new style with the universal sockets) for sale. It was used for about a month or so - still works like new. I did expand the opening in the plastic housing a little for the USB cable to fully seat. Asking $100 plus $10 priority mail shipping within the US. I will post a ...

I finished adding the steel sheet behind the controller and low voltage stuff. I've also added copper EMI shielding tape around all USB and DC cables. In addition, I've taken my newest relay box off as well. I currently have an expansion hub plugged into the main relay box, then one additional relay...

I have tried several different ports on the hub. I just wrapped the USB cables in copper tape and plugged them into new ports on the hub. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow morning.

Can there be a bus lock without the controller flagging it and having the red blinking light?

I came down this morning and the outlets were on correctly, but the dimming expansion was not working at all but as soon as I unplugged and re-plugged in the controller, everything is fine again.....

No, it doesn't have a red blinking LED on the controller. The screen also looks normal - no notification of bus lock.

I also forgot to mention in my previous post that I have a 2nd RA+ and have swapped the controller as well, but there was no change when I did that.

I have attached an image of the modified USB port and housing.

So I have made some progress with figuring out what is going on. So far I have worked on replacing all AC and USB cables with shorter cables. I have also tried to separate them as much as possible. This has reduced the amount of flickering although I am still experiencing it some. Another issue that...

I haven't been able to try the conduit yet. It sounded like a perfect solution to eliminate any EMI that may be getting to the USB and DC power cables. The difficulty is that the cables need to snake a lot to connect everything and rigid EMI pipes do not easily do this. My alternative plan (before g...

So I have re-routed many of the A/C cables to behind the board that all of the Reef Angel stuff is mounted to. I am still having this issue, so my next course of action to buy some 1/2" or 3/4" metal electrical conduit to place all of the data cables into. I will have the conduit end as cl...

I don't have any data cables running parallel with AC lines but they are near them and they do cross over perpendicular. I will work on re-routing cabling to isolate them as much as possible and report back in the coming days. Is there anything I can do to shield the AC cables? metal conduit?

So I'm not sure if the flickering is happening to both expansion relay boxes or just one. It doesn't seem to be happening to the main relay (although I'm not 100% sure). The issue with some relays staying on or not coming on has been happening with the old style relay box - I haven't seen it happen ...

Can this be done with the 16 channel dimming expansion? If so what would "X" be? Could you do 12-bit (up to 4095)?

I'm not sure if it is the new one as well or not. I still have not figured out which ports/box.

So I tried reseating and moving around all of the USB cables. I'm using only the USB cables that came with the system. I currently have an expansion hub with two relay expansion modules, one of the old boxier ones and one newer flatter one. I recently added the newer one but the issues were happenin...

dapg8gt, did you get this figured out? This is the exact issue I am having - random flickering on different relays every few seconds to hours. I can't imagine there is water damage where I have it mounted.

Is there a way to determine how long (seconds) each port was on during the previous day and then display this on a custom screen?

Sorry for the late reply. I will try those waveforms tonight. However, I did try: ReefAngel.PWM.SIXTEENChannelPWMSlope(0,0,4095,0); ReefAngel.PWM.SIXTEENChannelPWMSlope(1,0,4095,5); ReefAngel.PWM.SIXTEENChannelPWMSlope(2,0,4095,10); ReefAngel.PWM.SIXTEENChannelPWMSlope(3,0,4095,15); ReefAngel.PWM.SI...

Hey guys, I was wondering if someone could help me with figuring out how to properly use the 16 channel dimming expansion so that it is using all 4096 levels of dimming. I have been looking around the forum and this is how I am currently TRYING to do it: ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannelRaw(0,PWMSigmoidHighR...

Also, as far as the new reversePWMSlope function goes, would this look good? int FastReversePWMSlope(long fcstart,long fcend,byte fPWMStart,byte fPWMEnd, byte fclength) { long n=1000*elapsedSecsToday(now()); fcstart*=60000; fcend*=60000; if (n<fcstart) return fPWMStart; if (n>=fcstart && n<=...

ok, so it should be like this, right? //0 = White Far East PWMChannel[0]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,0,20,30,0,80,0); //80% //1 = White Near East PWMChannel[1]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,5,20,35,0,80,0); //80% //2 = White Near West PWMChannel[2]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,10,20,40,0,80,0); //80% //3 = White Far West P...

So this is how I would write the values? //0 = White Far East PWMChannel[0]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,0,20,30,0,3276,0); //80% //1 = White Near East PWMChannel[1]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,5,20,35,0,3276,0); //80% //2 = White Near West PWMChannel[2]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,10,20,40,0,3276,0); //80% //3 = White F...

As far as the high res stuff, would this be right? //0 = White Far East PWMChannel[0]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,0,20,30,0,80,0); //1 = White Near East PWMChannel[1]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,5,20,35,0,80,0); //2 = White Near West PWMChannel[2]=PWMParabolaHighRes(8,10,20,40,0,80,0); //3 = White Far West PWMCha...

What I'm trying to recreate is the clouds that you see on a sunny day that are small and pass by really quickly. The sun dims down very quickly, like in 1-2 seconds and the cloud may last for 5-30 seconds, and then the sun comes back just as quick. Also, unless its a really slow dimming, the full 12...

So I haven't had a lot of time to work on this, but I think I have it doing most of what I want as far as the clouds go. My code is posted below. I do have a few concerns though. Is my code using 12-bit resolution for the dimming for light cycles as well as for clouds? When it is dimming for the clo...

Oh duh.... That makes sense. So this is my code so far. I made that change and added in a random effect for the speed of clouds. The next thing I'm going to work on (if this looks good) is that I would like to have it to where on the fast clouds, there would be no lightning and the cloud would not l...

...or maybe its not needed there at all. I have it declared above at the beginning of checkcloud():

static time_t DelayCount=millis();
static int DelayTiming1=2000;
static int DelayTiming2=4000;
static int DelayTiming3=6000;

Oh yeah, I see that now, but I'm not sure exactly where to place it... Would this be right? if (cloudchance) { //is it time for cloud yet? if (NumMins(hour(),minute())>=cloudstart && NumMins(hour(),minute())<(cloudstart+cloudduration)) { DelayCount=millis(); //dim down the far east channels ...