Hardware & firmware wish list
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bmwaaron
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Matthis what about putting a Watt meter on each socket of the digital powerbar. If there was we could monitor so many things.
It would make it possible to diagnose pumps easier, When a pump starts drawing more or less amps then normal it is a sign of failure or that its in need of maintenance ie if a pump normally draws 100 watts then after time you notice its drawing 130 watts it may be due to calcium buildup on the impeller or even a motor starting to go out. But either way you could start to tell if something was wrong before you had a melt down
In the case of lighting if your bulb burns out or your ballast goes bad they usually will not draw any power indicating that your lights are not on.
You could also use this feature to keep track of energy use of the tank. Its a pretty cheep feature that would require a hardware upgrade but I think allot of people would love to have the ability to see what there tank is doing energy wise.
If your not home you could get email alerts telling you if something is supposed to be on but is not, or set a email alert to tell you if your main return pump (or anyother specified device)isn't pulling any watts or is pulling excessive watts.
It would make it possible to diagnose pumps easier, When a pump starts drawing more or less amps then normal it is a sign of failure or that its in need of maintenance ie if a pump normally draws 100 watts then after time you notice its drawing 130 watts it may be due to calcium buildup on the impeller or even a motor starting to go out. But either way you could start to tell if something was wrong before you had a melt down
In the case of lighting if your bulb burns out or your ballast goes bad they usually will not draw any power indicating that your lights are not on.
You could also use this feature to keep track of energy use of the tank. Its a pretty cheep feature that would require a hardware upgrade but I think allot of people would love to have the ability to see what there tank is doing energy wise.
If your not home you could get email alerts telling you if something is supposed to be on but is not, or set a email alert to tell you if your main return pump (or anyother specified device)isn't pulling any watts or is pulling excessive watts.
AQD_ottawa
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Hiya
This has aleady been discussed between matthias and myself this week!
Something for the future, if it happens it will be done properly and be integral. But as with all proper development these things take time and may not be released as you expect!
This has aleady been discussed between matthias and myself this week!
Something for the future, if it happens it will be done properly and be integral. But as with all proper development these things take time and may not be released as you expect!
AQD_ottawa
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Would this make any difference to how you read your tank or maintain it?
GHL has to balance the actual need of a function against its real practical use.
There are much bigger things being worked on this coming year which will released to you as the year goes on.
Please dont get me wrong and think we are not listening to you. I do my best to respond to all suggestions and many are taken onboard to imrove your controller weekly. I just like to answer these suggestions fairly based on practicality
GHL has to balance the actual need of a function against its real practical use.
There are much bigger things being worked on this coming year which will released to you as the year goes on.
Please dont get me wrong and think we are not listening to you. I do my best to respond to all suggestions and many are taken onboard to imrove your controller weekly. I just like to answer these suggestions fairly based on practicality
AQD_ottawa
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Check out a post in 10 minutes then!
Matthias Gross
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Hi,
yes, I know this, and i have customers from Poland and Italy for example asking the same.
I'll try soon to make it possible to download a "language file" into the ProfiLux. That means: The English or German texts can be overwritten with other texts in any language.
yes, I know this, and i have customers from Poland and Italy for example asking the same.
I'll try soon to make it possible to download a "language file" into the ProfiLux. That means: The English or German texts can be overwritten with other texts in any language.
AQD_ottawa
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Not for temp .05 of a degree would have no influence on your tank or even .09. same with non ranged readings between .10 to .90 I would challenge the effect on a system.
I was in the maldives only a while back, while there I took a whole range of readings over a two week period.
Temperature would fluctuate from anything around 1.5 degrees a day depending on current flow and strength of flow around the island and time of day. This is a thriving reef.
So back to the tank, if you could not determine .05 of a degree it is going to have no effect at all on your system or even how you maintain it. You are also playing with the logical boundaries of any temperature probes capable tolerances.
I was in the maldives only a while back, while there I took a whole range of readings over a two week period.
Temperature would fluctuate from anything around 1.5 degrees a day depending on current flow and strength of flow around the island and time of day. This is a thriving reef.
So back to the tank, if you could not determine .05 of a degree it is going to have no effect at all on your system or even how you maintain it. You are also playing with the logical boundaries of any temperature probes capable tolerances.
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AQD_ottawa
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How?, what would you change to your system if in the morning it read 100ths off from the night before?
Again you have to take into account also the tolerance swing of the probe of .01pH etc, nothing at all would be effected and you are well within any given stand accepted tank swing.
Again you have to take into account also the tolerance swing of the probe of .01pH etc, nothing at all would be effected and you are well within any given stand accepted tank swing.
Matthias Gross
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to display all these values in 1/100 resolution makes absolutely no sense in my opinion
more digits after the decimal point don't improve the physical accuracy of the measurement
to your argument 7.91 and 7.99:
ProfiLux rounds mathematical correctly! That means: 7.91 will be displayed as 7.9 and 7.99 as 8.0
more digits after the decimal point don't improve the physical accuracy of the measurement
to your argument 7.91 and 7.99:
ProfiLux rounds mathematical correctly! That means: 7.91 will be displayed as 7.9 and 7.99 as 8.0
bmwaaron
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I actually wasn't talking about giving a more precise temperature reading. When you have the Profilux Control PC software running in Fahrenheit mode if you look at the Temperature 1 display in the Control area where it says Nominal value it displays .XX instead of XX. If you are adjusting the temperature up or down it can be hard to read.
When its in Celsius its ok because that's what the software was written for.
Matthias Gross
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I understand. Will be checked.
What about a way to dim or even turn off the backlight on the display? Don't know if that is possible in software but it would be cool to set it to kill or dim the backlight as part of the alarm off hours.
Another feature might be a cool down timer for Metal Halide lights. Some lights won't turn back on after a power failure unless they are allowed to cool for some time period.
Of course access to the API might be nice for us programming weenies. I think that has been mentioned so count me as another plus vote.
Forgive me if any of these thoughts have been posted.
Another feature might be a cool down timer for Metal Halide lights. Some lights won't turn back on after a power failure unless they are allowed to cool for some time period.
Of course access to the API might be nice for us programming weenies. I think that has been mentioned so count me as another plus vote.
Forgive me if any of these thoughts have been posted.
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