<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12095910#post12095910 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shred5
Yea but that just proves my point. If one unit fails. I do not loose my flow, main pump, heat, top off and lighting..
Does a controller fail in on or off? if it fails do the lights stay on? do the pumps stay on? does it turn your top off on? Is it different for different controllers?
Certainly is nice to have one controller. It simply looks allot better.
I know someone who just lost their hole tank due to the lights not turning off..
I am thinking of picking up a controller though so I can monitor some of my tank parameters from the Internet. but mainly as a monitoring device.
Dave
well its kind of complicated
Aquatronica powerbar stores all of the info in terms of the timing and so forth so if the actual little computer fails the pumps lights etc will continue to work properly. The montioring such as ph/temp/orp will not.
I lost 50% of my tank a while back when my chiller malfunctioned(ranco) and the lights remained on cooking some of my critters.
thus the controller turns off the lights if the temp raises above a preset temp.
My pumps 75%(5 tunzes on separate electrical outlet- soon to be incorporated into a second Aqutronica powerbar) are separate from the controller.
My return is controlled by the aquatronica, as well as my lights-skimmer-uv-fuge lights.
I do have a stanby generator with two dedicated 15 amp breakers for my tank.
The chillers are hooked to a power converter manage again by my power bar (aquatronica)
the reactor is on a separate outlet-with a separate ph probe and solenoid.
The only weak pont in this tank is a kent float valve- but i do change it every 6 months) top off.
Anyways it is what it is at this point I don't think i can automate my tank any further. So its as simple as it can get w/o me being a slave.
