Reef Angel Forum

and now it seems to be stuck on 6ppt.....

yes, the ones that need power supplies each has their own.

Is there an easy way to impliment more than 2 dosing pumps, i'd ideally like 4, an additional one for mag, and then teh 4th to run my swabbie on and off a couple times a day.

no floats, the thing that keeps bugging me is the ph seems fine, but salinity is still always up and down

crap think its an issue on my routers end, it was working for like 10 mins... now plunk no connect again!

wifi firmware? dont know for sure.

So isp pushed an update to my router and now my RA is all snarfed again. I finally got it to get an ip address, and got the router to recognize it again, but when i goto the address in a web browser i'm getting a timeout error... my RA has also been freezing frequently ever since this happened... un...

well found a small stray voltage 0.3VAC its only on the one side of the power strip and only between the common, the potential isint there with the safety ground blah! guess its time to go shutting everything down one at a time to see what it is.. or get a grounding probe.

roberto i am not measuring any stray voltage in the tank at all, only other source i can think of is the ballasts for my light and the ph unit are kinda near eachother, I am going to try and move them to opposit sides of the tank and see what happens.

well stuck the probe back in my aquarium and it is going crazy again, any idea what to do to calm it down?

yes but dosing the calcium and alkalinity salts was causing the reading to swing untill they dispersed through the tank, the dosing pumps and the probes are in the same area of the sump. Or do you think its electrical interference/noise? Dont have a scope here, its packed somewhere in my storage uni...

looking at data over the weekend there were large swings in salinity on the hour every hour, dosing pumps maybe?

yup, plan is to leave it there until we get this figured out

Roberto,

did as you requested this morning, Calibrated and it did display the 35ppt this morning, probe is in a mason jar half full of tank water. Can you see the graph info from the portal or would you like me to post the reading info?

recalibrated on friday with heated solution, error seems greater now, currently my refractometer says 34ppt, reef angel says 26...

so like float the vial of calibration solution in the tank while doing the calibration? ReefAngel.LCD.DrawText(0,255,43,48,"Salinity"); ConvertNumToString(text, ReefAngel.Params.Salinity, 100); ReefAngel.LCD.DrawLargeText(COLOR_LIMEGREEN, 255, 49, 58, text, Num8x8); pingSerial();

ok 2 fold, salinity displays on my head units as 2.17ppt instead of 27.1ppt, also, according to my refractometer my salinity is closer to 31ppt than the 27 its reading, should i try to recalibrate, or can i tweak the setting manually?

My salinity reading seems wrong. when i calibrate the factor was approx 3100, when done it reads the 35ppt solution as 3.5, says tank is 3.0 now, is that in ppt? as well?

now if someone could just make the arduino ide do the pull down selection for functions like visual studio does.....

We do ultrasonic welding of plastic at work, just a chisel a vice and a smack of the hammer and you can pop anything open pretty cleanly.

yeah, i was looking at the teensyduino IDE for it, there are still some issues with bitwise operators (mainly shift) from going from the 8 bit to 32 bit, need to sit down with some proto hardware and try and build one. I'm thinking design a high end RA head unit with 32bit arm M4, built in wireless ...

Thanks Curt, if you are in northern indiana I owe you a beer. What memory locations are used for duration and start time? Is there a memory map somewhere or is the best thing to use for that the memory sketch? If I ever get more free time at work I wanna play with trying to get the RA libraries to c...

not really welded, more superglued shut, pretty easy to pop open.

will investigate that thanks.

edit: reading the manual it says you can power off master/slave chain by holding power off button.. guess i need to crack open an eco smart and then look at the rf schematic to figure that one out.

the doxygen link is not working for me, but that would be infinitly helpful :) manly struggling with dosing pump setup, want to basically run for 20 mins starting at 9am edit: i also love how the arduino reference just glosses over pointers :-P reason i failed c++ the first 2 times i took it, that a...

Is there a programming reference somewhere that lists the function prototype calls and what they pass in and return? I know I can dig through the C code and pull them out that way but it seems like that would be something that should exist somewhere.

is there a way to make it go slower than feeding mode? Or does it look like i'm hooking them up to relays?

is there a way to turn the vortechs off during feeding mode using the rf module? I know i can just plug them into the relay box, but was hoping to not have to use relays for them. The feeding mode is still too much flow for most of my lps to grab food, actually it would be great to have 2 feeding mo...

yep 100% the blue light is not on, it thinks its connecting but its not getting an ip address. the device MAC is showing up in my router but it is listing IP ADDR: ERROR HOST: ERROR for that MAC. other wireless devices show the ip just fine. When I change the ssid to my neighbors unprotected wifi (a...

still nothing here are the settings read from the adapter get ip IF=DOWN DHCP=ON IP=0.0.0.0:2000 NM=0.0.0.0 GW=0.0.0.0 HOST=198.171.134.6:80 PROTO=TCP, MTU=1524 FLAGS=0x6 TCPMODE=0x0 BACKUP=0.0.0.0 <2.36> get w SSID=thongsong Chan=0 ExtAnt=0 Join=1 Auth=WPA2 Mask=0x1fff Rate=12, 24 Mb Linkmon=5 Pass...