Hi guys,
Just got back from a 3 week honeymoon ... and yes Murphy's law paid me a visit.
While away the temperature probe on my AC Jr. went crazy showing a temp of 102 degrees. Needless to say, my lights and heaters would not come on due to the programming.
Thankfully, after two days, my pet sitter contacted Emerald Bay and Sean came over to save my tank. He disconnected the lights from the DC8 so the pet sitter could turn them on/off manually. The temperature bounced up and down a bit, but not too bad.
Thankfully, everything was ok, and actually my corals showed some pretty drastic growth. Maybe this was due to the fact that my photoperiod increased to 12 hours, instead of my usual 8.
Overall i am thankful that the tank survived 3 weeks on its own. No loss and no floods ... I'll take it!
After doing some research i found many posts of the temperature probe going crazy on the controllers. So what i would do if you run a controller is add additional logic, just in case. For instance: If Temp > 90 CHILLER OFF just in case. Thankfully i do not run a chiller, because it would have ran non-stop.
I want to take this opportunity to Thank Sean and Emerald Bay. If it were not for him, I would have lost all my corals. Your service and way of doing business is something you do not find very often these days. THANK YOU, I OWE YOU BIG TIME!
Just got back from a 3 week honeymoon ... and yes Murphy's law paid me a visit.
While away the temperature probe on my AC Jr. went crazy showing a temp of 102 degrees. Needless to say, my lights and heaters would not come on due to the programming.
Thankfully, after two days, my pet sitter contacted Emerald Bay and Sean came over to save my tank. He disconnected the lights from the DC8 so the pet sitter could turn them on/off manually. The temperature bounced up and down a bit, but not too bad.
Thankfully, everything was ok, and actually my corals showed some pretty drastic growth. Maybe this was due to the fact that my photoperiod increased to 12 hours, instead of my usual 8.
Overall i am thankful that the tank survived 3 weeks on its own. No loss and no floods ... I'll take it!
After doing some research i found many posts of the temperature probe going crazy on the controllers. So what i would do if you run a controller is add additional logic, just in case. For instance: If Temp > 90 CHILLER OFF just in case. Thankfully i do not run a chiller, because it would have ran non-stop.
I want to take this opportunity to Thank Sean and Emerald Bay. If it were not for him, I would have lost all my corals. Your service and way of doing business is something you do not find very often these days. THANK YOU, I OWE YOU BIG TIME!
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