How many electrical plugs do you use?

[jsl6v8]

I was bored at work and was looking at aquacontrollers and neptunes and realized most of them have 8 plug ins on their power strip, and some x-10 connections what are x-10 connections?? and I was thinking 8 plugs won't do anything I imagine most of us with larger tanks and retrofit lighting are using 3/4+ electrical cords just for lighting forget pumps and skimmers and powerheads and c02 and calcium and drip thingys.

I think I run about 14 or so electrical plugs on my 120 at least 10 on my 55 and there will be probably around 10 or so on the 90 as well.

 

[dugg]

18 on my 30gallon, all running on one 2 plug outlet lol.

 

[jsl6v8]

you have 2 huge power strips I'm guessing??

 

[flfirefighter13]

im running a AQjr with 8 plugs on my 180 setup and all is well. I have
1 for MH
1 for VHO,
1 for return and skimmer (together and both turn off for feed mode)
1 for my refugium light,
1 for heater
1 for powerhead
1 for canopy fan
and one that is not used right now but will provide power for either an auodoser for two part or for my auto top off, havent decided yet.

I also have one x10 to run the lights on my remote nano. Other than that all I have is 2 powerheads pluged into a seperate circuit as a backup to ensure flow if the circuit ever blows for any reason. Granted ive been accused of running a minimalist tank setup but it works well for me. Just one suggestion though, I like the aquacontrollers and im not sure of their ability to run multiple tanks but I know the aquatronica units can run multiple tanks, you may want to look into it for all your tanks.

 

[chrisstie]

I'm not sure thats recommended

I have 3 for lights, 2 for powerheads, 1 for return, 1 for skimmer so thats 7.. oh and a heater 8.. Its less because my lights are all built into 1 thing with just 2 plugs

forget however many comes stock on the aquapod 12..

On my 125g im sure it'll be more since each light will probably have its own ballast unless i get one that is dual, plus the VHO supplements and all the other gear it'll get

 

[mflamb]

I had 4 outlets on the tank wall and added 16 on four 20 amp circuits. Three will be for Dart pumps, 2 for Pan World skimmer pumps, 2 for OM4ways, 1 for calcium reactor (CO2 solenoid will be operated by controller), 1 for kalk stirrer, 1 for auto top-off, MH ballasts will be on power strip timer on 1 outlet, T-5 ballasts will need 1 outlet, 1 for moonlights, 1 for fuge light, 1 for heater (my wife is a polar bear), 1 for controller, 1 for ozone generator, 1 for power supply for electric linear actuators that move the lights in/out of the hood for service, and raise them up for tank access, Hmmm....have I missed anything. I may use my controller for control of some of that.

 

[jay24k]

I'm running 5 plugs for my lights.
1 plug for my fans.
1 plug for my return pump
1 for my skimmer
2 for my powerheads.
1 for my fuge light.
2 plugs for my ph/orp controller
ozone and co2 plugged into those controllers.
1 plug for pump on reactor
1 plug for a ph monitor

So I'm at 17 cords.

 

[jsl6v8]

so my next question is when are neptune and RK and all those guys going to get it together build a unit that takes up both the wall sockets and has something like 20 plug ins and better yet with blue tooth to wirelessly connect it to our computer for monitering instead of those stupid lan connections as if ppl have all their tanks in the room with their computers or want to have lan cables running though their house.

 

[mflamb]

What a hobby/life...hundreds of gallons of saltwater, and massive amounts of electricity!!!

 

[mflamb]

You can network your controller wirelessly with a router.

 

[jsl6v8]

lol I knowthat mflamb but you can't network the controller wirelessly currently, and thats what I want.

 

[mflamb]

That's part of the difficulty...the computer world hasn't meshed with the aquarium world very well yet, so we have to be creative.

 

[jsl6v8]

the technology is there and easy to install, if theyc an put a wireless device in a cellphone they can put it in a controller.

 

[mflamb]

You are correct. How do we get them to do it?

 

[jsl6v8]

I suggest a handgun of a large caliber, or we can mass email them

 

[flfirefighter13]

check with aquatronica, IIRC aquarium obsessed was telling me something about a sim card module that allowed access by dialing in, If they have created that im sure standard wireless cant be to hard, besides the whole system is ethernet based. Im not sure if their are others similiar but it seemed to be pretty promising when i was looking.

 

[jay24k]

Does anyone know if they can be set to email you every time something changes? That would be nice getting an email when lights are on or fans turn off etc.

 

[flfirefighter13]

I cant speak for other setups but The AQ jr with aquanotes can do it as long as its connected to the computer and the computer is on. I think the AQ3 can email without the computer being on but I may be wrong

 

[ben&bobbi]

2 outlets MH
1 outlet VHO
1 outlet moonlight
1 outlet skimmer
1 outlet heater
1 outlet top-off
1 outlet canopy fans
1 outlet - to be water change pump
2-3 extra for ?????
above one 1 GFI 20amp breaker

2 outlets PH's (yes i added a couple)
power strip for QT tank
above on seperate circuit

i am going to make my own newe power center with switches on most outlets. can't decide if i want a controller or calc reactor for christmas! (long time away i know, but time flies - right!? and it's a large expense)
Ben

 

[waterfaller1]

We have one for the DT, everything is wired into the stand. The lighting/pumps/heater/fans are all wired into the main cord. The refugium has a separate light..so we have 2 cords.