Possible Vortech powerhead control in the future?

[xenon]

It sure is nice to have the Tunze powerheads controllable via GHL Profilux but I much prefer Vortech powerheads over the Tunze.

You think its possible that GHL would design an add on for vortech powerhead control?

 

[AQD_ottawa]

Anything is possible, but for two companies to achieve such a tie up that will benefit both equally many bridges would have to be crossed.

This question is beyong my scope I am afraid.

 

[Nickde123]

I dont understand

 

[chiefzod]

Not as easy as the Tunze i'm afraid. The vortech have no connector to control speed as it's done wirelessly.

Only way would be something added to the profilux to send out the codes to the pumps or a new driver box from Ecotech that allows you to connect into the pump.

I'm looking at modding my Vortechs to control them but this will void the warranty on them of course.

 

[Nickde123]

O ok now I got it lol thank Chief

 

[jgillard]

The ideal solution would be an add on card that can act as a wireless master to the other vortech powerheads. This would alow infinte control opportunities of the other powerheads.

I do not see this happening ever but it is not really a big deal anyways. There is not really any major to use the profilux to control the vortechs when they have their own controller already that is not seperate from the pumps.

There are only a couple benefits I could think of from having the profilux control the vortechs.
1) You could have different modes of operation for different times of the day including different pump speeds.
2) Putting the profilux unit into feed mode could set the vortechs to feed mode as well.

Hopefully vortech will have some way of updating the firmware on their controllers for new functionality in the future.

 

[AQD_ottawa]

I would suggest leaving a question in the Ecotech forum regarding this matter.

As I said before I can not answer this question directly.