KingsleyBen
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Awesome, thanks aries!
DIY Wavebox Tutorial from start to finish!
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HighlandReef
Chalice Monger
thats not true, i have seen a couple of posts that the wave box has blown out side panes on new tanks, do a search you will find them.
KingsleyBen
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So some serious reinforcement might not be a bad idea..... Any Ideas?
o0jmadr0x0o
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if anyone can make me a controller please PM me$
seanpage86
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i love this and plan to do it as soon as i get home from this hellish place (iraq) 2 ?s one do you think i could use my corner plexy overflow box as the wave box and just drill the hole and mont it there? and 2 do i have to use this "blue driver box" or can u hard wire this to a pump?
xtm
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Very well possible if the tank is several decades old. This shouldn't be a concern with new tanks
If anything, I suggest making sure that your tank stand is reinforced and braced properly. Contrary to popular belief, the wavebox makes an up-down motion, NOT left-right motion. There is a huge difference. It's not the same as jerking a bucket of water back and forth where the force pushes the wall of the bucket. I would compare this to putting your foot IN the bucket of water to displace the water.. therefore there's not too much force on the side walls. You get the drift
I'm glad to know this - thank you. I need to re-write the diagram so it includes the LED (and possibly, the FEED timer option). I promise I will do it soon. I get sooo many PM's about this request that I simply can't ignore it.
Hey Sean, I just replied to your PM but you never said that you were gonna use the overflow box as a wavebox! If so, that's not going to work. The wavebox pushes water OUT. If you use the overflow box, you will be pushing detritus back in to the display. Not a good idea. Also the box needs to be full of water for displacement - this cannot be achieved if you have a drain pipe in there. Scratch that idea.
The blue driver box is needed to drive the stream pump.
Hope that helps.
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Pacific Reefs
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Hey XTM you said you saw the real wavebox and the waves were weak. Was it the same size tank as yours? Just curious what makes the DIY box push stronger waves. Thanks!
went to a local electronic shop and the capacitors (10, .1, .47) they gave me were all electrolytic which has implicit polarity. they schematic diagram doesnt show any polarity. can i use the electrolytic capacitors? would the polarity matters? if yes, then how should i solder them with respect to the polarity?
thanks.
thanks.
Pacific Reefs
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Can you watch it in the box? Is the water level going down too low in the box and the pump running dry?
Dustint21
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Here is a crappy video. It works good! It just shuts off cause it over heats I think. The only thing that might cause it that i can think of is the controller only allows me to turn the pump down to 30% and its not shutting it all the way off. Hopfully someone has a fix or some advice on this issue....
Thanks
Dustin
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Dustin
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circuit questions
circuit questions
Hiya.
I'm building xtm's circuit for a friend and I have a few questions.
He wants to have alternating LEDs flashing, I figured this would be possible using a fairly easy modification of the above diagram.
n.b. by placing one led between ic-8 and ic-3 the other between ic-3 and ic-1.
Will his pump (a DC Tunze) react aversely (say by running in reverse) to a circuit thaty has an alternating Output?
Also, it has been asked before, but I can't find an answer:
will the 555ic survive being run on 24v?
circuit questions
Hiya.
I'm building xtm's circuit for a friend and I have a few questions.
He wants to have alternating LEDs flashing, I figured this would be possible using a fairly easy modification of the above diagram.
n.b. by placing one led between ic-8 and ic-3 the other between ic-3 and ic-1.
Will his pump (a DC Tunze) react aversely (say by running in reverse) to a circuit thaty has an alternating Output?
Also, it has been asked before, but I can't find an answer:
will the 555ic survive being run on 24v?
Henryreef
Ocean Lover
Thank you so much for this great thread XTM. I know this is late, but I only just discovered this thread by reading through past issues of RK Mag. I think this is a great design and an excellent project. I think I am going to attempt this one, but I have no electronic skills, so it will be a challenge.
Hi Guys
So here is the question.
I read through this thread and thought this is a brillient idea and perfect for my tank of about 3500 litres.
I wanted some nice water movement and these four boxes looked like the answer.
I built four of these waveboxes and mounted them on a bracket.
I put four Tunze 6100 streams into the boxes,one stream per box.
I built a controller that swiches all the pumps on and off at the same time with a variable control that allows me to turn the control ten times around for really fine adjustment.I adjusted it so I found the sweet spot where the wave is the highest.
Problem is two of the four streams constantly suck air into the tank.
I initially thought the problem was with the construction of two of the waveboxes so I switched a stream from a wavebox that was sucking air with one that was not.The stream that sucked in air carried on sucking air in a new wavebox.From this I deduced that the problem must be with the pump or the electronics and not the actual waveboxes.
It seems that two of the Tunze 6100`s are sucking stronger than the other two as they empty their water in the wavebox faster than the ones that do not suck air.Am I on the right track here?
I have ensured that the adjustment on all four drivers is set to maximum.
Any advice??
So here is the question.
I read through this thread and thought this is a brillient idea and perfect for my tank of about 3500 litres.
I wanted some nice water movement and these four boxes looked like the answer.
I built four of these waveboxes and mounted them on a bracket.
I put four Tunze 6100 streams into the boxes,one stream per box.
I built a controller that swiches all the pumps on and off at the same time with a variable control that allows me to turn the control ten times around for really fine adjustment.I adjusted it so I found the sweet spot where the wave is the highest.
Problem is two of the four streams constantly suck air into the tank.
I initially thought the problem was with the construction of two of the waveboxes so I switched a stream from a wavebox that was sucking air with one that was not.The stream that sucked in air carried on sucking air in a new wavebox.From this I deduced that the problem must be with the pump or the electronics and not the actual waveboxes.
It seems that two of the Tunze 6100`s are sucking stronger than the other two as they empty their water in the wavebox faster than the ones that do not suck air.Am I on the right track here?
I have ensured that the adjustment on all four drivers is set to maximum.
Any advice??
Mike778922
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I built 2 of these boxes. Everything worked fine on them for a week and then they stop working and the driver has the alarm going off with both of them. Now when I turn them on the driver has the alarm tone going off after about 15 seconds. There is some problem with the driver, but Im not sure the reason. Anyone experience this or have an idea of why it happened?
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