Georgi's 40B rimless
- Thread starter terahz
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terahz
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Ok, it is time for take 2 . Took me all day Sunday plus all evening yesterday to reboot my tank. I spent the last two months fighting this algae outbreak and had removed more than 80% of it, when I decided to just restart everything. Enjoy:
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TheFishMan65
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Great, only 7 minutes. Will you come do mine?
I also like the way you put 50 gallons of water in a 40 gallon tank! I guess you made your time limit.
I also like the way you put 50 gallons of water in a 40 gallon tank! I guess you made your time limit.
terahz
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Steve, Thanks! It actually wasn't much editing. I shot the video with a camera, taking a pic every second for the most part (every 45 seconds for the RO/DI fill up) and just made a movie of them all. Then I just added the text. I couldn't have stored 20+ hrs of HD video to speed up later 
TheFishMan65, don't forget the sump. The video doesn't show it, but the water kept going and overflowing in the sump until the sump was full too. It ended up being a little over 50G of water (based on how much salt I put in).
njudson, Will be happy to see you and thanks for the frag offer.
TheFishMan65, don't forget the sump
. The video doesn't show it, but the water kept going and overflowing in the sump until the sump was full too. It ended up being a little over 50G of water (based on how much salt I put in).njudson, Will be happy to see you and thanks for the frag offer.
TheFishMan65
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It looked larger than a 40, so I was wondering you your tank info was off, but I guess not.
londonloco
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any updates?
terahz
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Could be going better. As a matter of fact it hasn't been going well since I setup the tank pretty much, and I have no clue why. Here is my "debugging" thread:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2149971
I've changed almost all equipment by now (sans tank and return pump). I'm even changing apartments in two months. Anyway, I haven't updated this thread because... well there is nothing to update. The tank looks like the day I set it up pretty much. 2 zoas, 5-6 ricordeas and 4 fish. Nothing else makes it for longer than a month.
The hunt continues.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2149971
I've changed almost all equipment by now (sans tank and return pump). I'm even changing apartments in two months
. Anyway, I haven't updated this thread because... well there is nothing to update. The tank looks like the day I set it up pretty much. 2 zoas, 5-6 ricordeas and 4 fish. Nothing else makes it for longer than a month. The hunt continues.
terahz
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No I haven't. I have all the bits to make one, but I don't believe it will help with my problem. Checkout my reboot video again, I had a natural scrubber before I rebooted and it didn't help. I'll be moving in 2 months so I've put on pause all new builds. I'll just let it be for a couple of months with the new skimmer, heater and lights and see how it goes when I put a coral when I move in June.
speedpacer
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Meanwhile I had some time to take an American DJ power strip apart so that I can connect the outlets to a relays that I'll control later.
Basically take the two screws from each side;
Take out the short black wires (N on the connectors):
Change the short wires with long ones (18AWG):
Make a hole and take out your leads:
The relay boards will be connected to the controller via 10p ribbon cable.
Hey terahz, I was following this post and a few others like it when they were going strong over a year ago and I collected all the necessary parts but then some life happened and I had to put the project on hold for a while. Now I'm trying to piece it all back together. I have a question about how you re-wired the American DJ.
I'm sure you've seen this: http://www.reefprojects.com/wiki/Build-phases
It looks like he removed the series of wires from the switch side (bottom left if you're looking at them from behind) and then wired the relays up in series off the fuse plug, so he ended up with what appears to be 9 wires coming out of the back. I could be wrong but that's what it looks like in the picture.
I tried it that way and I'm ending up with some stray voltage coming from somewhere. When the input (float switch in this case) is LOW, I still get some flickering from both the lamp (that i'm using to test with, will be a pump), and the switch on the power strip. He described a similar issue.
But from what I can tell, you took the small wires that were connecting the switch to the plug directly and put the relay in between. Is that correct?
What did you do with the wire coming off the left side of the fuse, if anything? Or was that the last connection in the series of wires I removed from the switches? Sorry, it's been so long since I attempted this, I can't remember!
