anyone tried to using Jebo WP40?

Has anyone succesfully hooked this up to APEX? Or is there a link somewhere? That would be greatly appreciated, I am very new to apex, and know nothing about wiring and what not.
 
I got my WP-40 back from ReefAngel last night along with the wire harness and a PWM dimming module. I hooked it all up this morning and it's working great! On LongPulseMode running with a 30% to 80% speed range I don't get the noise I was getting with the stock controller.

I wanted to sell this off and get two of the WP-25s but I think I'll run this for a while, at least till the WP-25s come out, and see how it goes. I can eliminate 4 Koralias with this and if I put it towards the back of the tank it's not terribly obtrusive. Definitely better than looking at the 4 Koralias and infinitely better than listening to them click all day!

I still need to play around with the different modes some more and dial it all into my sketch but I am happy with it for now :)

~Charlie
 
Chas said:
I got my WP-40 back from ReefAngel last night along with the wire harness and a PWM dimming module. I hooked it all up this morning and it's working great! On LongPulseMode running with a 30% to 80% speed range I don't get the noise I was getting with the stock controller.

I wanted to sell this off and get two of the WP-25s but I think I'll run this for a while, at least till the WP-25s come out, and see how it goes. I can eliminate 4 Koralias with this and if I put it towards the back of the tank it's not terribly obtrusive. Definitely better than looking at the 4 Koralias and infinitely better than listening to them click all day!

I still need to play around with the different modes some more and dial it all into my sketch but I am happy with it for now :)

~Charlie
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Charlie,
I believe you are the first person in this thread who has successfully hooked up the WP40 directly to RA controller and completely eliminated the stock controller. Would you mind post some pictures or diagrams showing how the RA controller, Jebo Power Supply, the wire harness RA made, and the WP40 pump are connected together? I think a picture or diagram is worth a thousand words.

Also I love to see some description of the various modes programmed by RA to run the pump so far. How are they different from the original 6 modes of the Jebo controller? Thanks for sharing that in advance!
 
Simon - I will post some pics later today. It's still a ball of wires on the floor in front of the tank and I want to get all the PWM module mounted and clean up the connections.

If you search for "Wave Patterns" on the ReefAgnel forums you can see the coded modes over there. Here's a link: Wave Patterns

~Charlie
 
michaellee64 said:
I just received mine, and am running 1 @ 24v on a 180G (72x24x24). I'm not sure why everybody is worrying about it moving to much water? I was going to replace 2 Sicce Voyager HP-2800's with this, but am going to have to order another one, since this definitely isn't enough for this tank. The output feels pretty close to the Voyager's output. Not as quiet as my Voyager's, but love the modes! Overall, I am extremely happy with the quality and performance of these powerheads... especially for the money! So I would definitely recommend 2 of these for your tank. I did buy the variable power supply, but not sure if I have any use for it at this time. "Glad I never bought into the MP40 Hype"

Cheers, Michael :beer:
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how do you have this thing angled in the tank?
 
degibson84 said:
how do you have this thing angled in the tank?
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I have this in the back left corner of the tank approximately 6" from the top of the water. It is angled to the front right corner, slightly downward. It is a little noisier than I like.... reminds me of a cell phone vibrating on a table in the next room. It does seem to be getting a little quieter as it runs. This was the case with my voyagers... took about a week for them to quiet down.
 
I ended up taking pics as is for now. Here's a link to the Picasa Album.

And here's a couple of pics:

A little blurry but this is the PWM module and cable I made to go from the PWM to the harness:
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A pic of the harness with the cable above plugged in:
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And everything plugged in on the floor:
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WP-40 in the tank (standard 65). WP-40 in the back, MP-10 about 4" from the front glass:
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I'll get more pics posted later tonight.

I'm curently using LongPuleMode in my sketch. Here's a snippet from my loop() function
PHP: 
// WP-40 Control Test
// ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,PWMSlope(9,0,17,0,15,100,60,15));
//ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,TidalSwellMode(80, true));
// ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0, ShortPulseMode(30, 80, 7, true));
ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,LongPulseMode(30, 80, 4, true));
//ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,);
//ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,);

// At the very bottom of my sketch I have the wave modes from the link I posted above.

~Charlie
 
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Chas said:
Simon - I will post some pics later today. It's still a ball of wires on the floor in front of the tank and I want to get all the PWM module mounted and clean up the connections.

If you search for "Wave Patterns" on the ReefAgnel forums you can see the coded modes over there. Here's a link: Wave Patterns

~Charlie
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Wow! Very impressive. You guys have done some amazing work in creating all these interesting flow modes for this pump.:beer: This definitely has raised the desirability of this pump by another notch and probably increase the market share of the RA controllers, a win-win for both products.
 
Chas said:
I ended up taking pics as is for now. Here's a link to the Picasa Album.

And here's a couple of pics:

A little blurry but this is the PWM module and cable I made to go from the PWM to the harness:
006.JPG


A pic of the harness with the cable above plugged in:
008.JPG


And everything plugged in on the floor:
011.JPG


WP-40 in the tank (standard 65). WP-40 in the back, MP-10 about 4" from the front glass:
009.JPG


I'll get more pics posted later tonight.

I'm curently using LongPuleMode in my sketch. Here's a snippet from my loop() function
PHP: 
// W9-40 Control Test
// ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,PWMSlope(9,0,17,0,15,100,60,15));
//ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,TidalSwellMode(80, true));
// ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0, ShortPulseMode(30, 80, 7, true));
ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,LongPulseMode(30, 80, 4, true));
//ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,);
//ReefAngel.PWM.SetChannel(0,);

// At the very bottom of my sketch I have the wave modes from the link I posted above.

~Charlie
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For some reasons, I can't see any of the pictures in your post:sad2:

Edit: never mind. I can see them now
 
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Simon - Try again. I put the wrong URL in for the links and had to go back and edited my post. Does the Picasa album link work for you?

~Charlie
 
Chas said:
I ended up taking pics as is for now. Here's a link to the Picasa Album.

And here's a couple of pics:

A little blurry but this is the PWM module and cable I made to go from the PWM to the harness:
006.JPG


~Charlie
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In some earlier discussion, we were told the WP40 pump requires a 0-5V analog signals to control the pump. I can see you have a PWM expansion module. So how does a PWM module generate analog output to run the pump? Is there some kind of filter built in your harness to convert PMW to analog signals?
 
There is a low pass filter on the harness as well as a voltage divider. The low pass filter will let it work with either a PWM or Analog signal. The voltage dividers cuts the dimming in half. That way I can code it like a normal (0v-10v) PWM pot (or Analog if that's what you have) in my RA sketch and not have to worry about feeding more than 5v by accident.

~Charlie
 
is this RA harness gonna be capable of speed control with a reefkeeper? or should i get the unit from amazon to change the volts and lower the speed?
 
Any shots of a side by side size comparison to a Koralia Evo or the wet side of a MP40?

One of these would be excellent in the 125 I'm setting up. Any shots of it on a 125 with overflows on the back?

Found the one of it vs a tunze.
 
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aqua80 said:
received mine today and that thing sure moves a lot of water !

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but one thing : the propeller won't rotate when I try to run the pump in-line with the holding bracket (ie not at 90 degres like in my videos).

I thought the magnet was to strong but even with just the wet succion/magnet in place (dry magnet not on the aquarium glass), the propeller misses most of the time and dont rotate, just iddle...
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Can we mount it like he has it mounted without issues in the long run because it would make my tank look one hek of a lot cleaner.
 
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Next person to receive they're pump or someone that is kind enough to take there's out of their tank would you please post a picture of the pump next to a soda can so I can get a good idea of the size.
 
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