houstonhobby
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Once upon a time I had a Hydor controller for turbulence in my 90, but it only had two outlets. I dropped one of them into a bucket of salt water while the unit was plugged in. Took 1 30,000th of a second for the GFCI to cut off the power but that was too long for the Hydor. It was big trash.
In the 210, the three return pumps run all the time, and the Jebao runs all the time in "Else" mode (which actually seems pretty good at generating random flow).
Then, I have five other pumps, a mixture of Hydor Koralias and Maxi-Jets of various sizes. Each of these is on a timer, and each turns on and off every 15 minutes, half-hour, or hour, depending upon how the timer is configured.
I found not being able to know which pumps where at at what times and whether or not all the pumps where actually cycling as they were supposed to do to be really annoying.
So, I googled "120 volt led indicator" and found a company that makes these things in red, green, and blue. I ordered 5 red ones. When they came, I went to the hardware store and bought 5 8' lamp cords with molded plugs and some wire nuts. I took a small square of wood about 1/4 inch thick from my scrap pile and drilled 5 11/64th holes in it (the boxes for the LEDs gave me the size), installed the LEDs, put a little crazy glue in the back so they would not slip out, and attached each to a lamp cord. Then, I just put a multi-plug on the output of each of the timers, so I could plug in both the pump and the LED light, and attached the LED panel to my stand.
Now, at a glance, I can see how each of the turbulence pumps is performing.
In the 210, the three return pumps run all the time, and the Jebao runs all the time in "Else" mode (which actually seems pretty good at generating random flow).
Then, I have five other pumps, a mixture of Hydor Koralias and Maxi-Jets of various sizes. Each of these is on a timer, and each turns on and off every 15 minutes, half-hour, or hour, depending upon how the timer is configured.
I found not being able to know which pumps where at at what times and whether or not all the pumps where actually cycling as they were supposed to do to be really annoying.
So, I googled "120 volt led indicator" and found a company that makes these things in red, green, and blue. I ordered 5 red ones. When they came, I went to the hardware store and bought 5 8' lamp cords with molded plugs and some wire nuts. I took a small square of wood about 1/4 inch thick from my scrap pile and drilled 5 11/64th holes in it (the boxes for the LEDs gave me the size), installed the LEDs, put a little crazy glue in the back so they would not slip out, and attached each to a lamp cord. Then, I just put a multi-plug on the output of each of the timers, so I could plug in both the pump and the LED light, and attached the LED panel to my stand.
Now, at a glance, I can see how each of the turbulence pumps is performing.
