Safety connector and non-Tunze controller

[AquaProject]

Hi,

I've been planning to take a Safety connector into use with my 6101's. But there's a problem - I'm using an aquarium computer to control the pumps, and when power of the computer goes down, streams will stop running. I was a bit disappointed to find this out since I'd have thought pumps would continue with the manual setting.

So using the Safety connector would not help any in case of a power outage, since the controller would be dead anyway. Is there any way to affect this behaviour - doing such configuration that a non-functioning controller would not stop the pumps but change them to use the manual setting? Wouldn't this same happen if a Tunze Multicontroller went dead for some reason?

 

[Harry_Fish]

I'm will be doing the same thing running Tunze pumps on a controller (Profilux).
(i'm still waiting for the pumps to come in).


I'm going to use a UPS on the pumps and controller (since I have a UPS close by).


I may switch to Run the controller and pumps off a battery
and “float charge” it that way I get a longer runtime.
That way I would not need the safety connectors either.

 

[AquaProject]

Do you mean that you'd be always running the devices from the battery, and just keep on charging the battery? I kow that a UPS would solve my problem, but as you say, runtime is not as long and good units are expensive.

I'm no expert on this topic but your plan sounds good to me - maybe someone can explain what are the pros of using the Safety connector, compared to this option?

 

[rvitko]

I don't have a solution for this, our controllers are powered by the pumps so this doesn't happen when our controllers are used.

 

[Harry_Fish]

I have a profilux controller as well.

My pumps should be in in a couple of days.

When they come in I will test and see if I can come up with an easy solution for you.