Fustrated ACII , Temp ,Ice Cap,ARO and Vho

[clkwrk]

I am getting fustrated. I own a AC orginal old version and decided to upgrade and use the old AC for another tank of mine and the ACII on my main tank . Anyways I have never had anyproblem with my orginal AC and temp problems. When my VHO comes on my ACII jumps up 3 degrees and start shutting things down ( my programing) Well after moving thigs around so many times and making sure all was grounded right I still have the problem . So now I no longer run my VHO but I still get interference from my 250 IC electronic ballasts and 250 ARO electronic ballasts . I have no other issues except a temp increase with each ballast turning on . What can I do to fix this ? I have bought all new probes with hopes of something giving but nothing . My new temp prob also di not have an offset written on the tag ?

Can I just upgrade my old dependable AC to the newer version and not have the problem migrate and switch back ? Would pager support work with an upgraded version on the AC orginal.


TIA

 

[Carlos]

Hi,

It has to do with the IC ballasts. They produce too much noise that they really make it hard for the X10 modules to work correctly. I also have IC ballast and when I was using X10 modules, the lights kept turning on and off for no reason. They would also cause enough interference to make the other modules ignore (or not receive) the commands from the ACII.

The way I corrected the problem was by going with the DC8 module. Once I installed that module, my problems are gone. I run the IC ballasts and a couple of other small things on the DC8 and the rest of the equipment runs on X10. Since that time, everything works correctly and have had "0" problems.

So, it is not the ACII but the ballasts. If you do a search, you will see that lots of people that use IC have had the same problems. That's how I found out about the problem.

Sorry if there is no easy or cheap solution to it...

HTH,

Carlos

 

[clkwrk]

My temp probe has nothing to do with my x10's


My only problem is the interference causing my temp probe to read off.

All my x-10's work like a charm with no probs.

 

[clp]

Here are some things to try:
- Make sure that your reflectors are ground on your lighting system.
- Physically separate the ballast cords from the AquaController's temperature cords.
- coil up the cords to make them as short as possible.

Curt

 

[sidewinder770]

Chris- I had a similar problem with my ACIII- it was caused by the probe wires coming close to my lighting- not the ballast for say- could have been the power cord from the ballast to the pendant but it was something with the lights. This was on 250w DE MH lights using IC ballasts so it sounds like soemthing common with IC ballasts. When I seperated the probe wires from the other wires (by at least 6 inches) the problem seemed to go away. It affected the ORP the most with me but that seemed to fix the problem. Not sure if that will work for you but give it a try.

 

[clkwrk]

Thanks will try and reroute again.