Scott's 270 aka Project Mayhem

The ATB pellets should work well. The fact that you are starting with 500mls is a good thing. That amount in a system as large as yours will not do anything to harm your system. Starting slow and adding 50mls bi-weekly should allow you do dial in your nutrients the right way.

Nice macro shots! I've been meaning to say that. Oh, that Aprilia is my dream bike. Used to do track days with my R1 in Northern California. I got a chance to ride a Aprilia 250GP bike and it was smoooooth and quick. I had a lot more respect for Aprilia's after that.
 
Thanks Rodney. I had an '04 R6, then went to an '06 GSX-R 1000, and then finally my '11 RSV4 aprc se. I have been to the track once with the Aprilia, and the electronics take a little getting used to but in the end it was great! I still wish I wouldn't have sold my Suzuki though… that bike was all engine, and it was intoxicating. But, the Aprilia has soul :)
 
very nice build, love the cabinetry, really caught my eye when everything matches , just so nice.....

I do not have experience with biopellets , but I do have a reactor and from the reading ive done , it seems like if you have too many biopellets it can strip too much nutrients out of the water , but if you have less than you think you should, then this should keep nitrates etc in check from going to high. Your corals and zoas will need some of those amino acids
oh and great pics , esp love the zoas :thumbsup:
 
Thanks aqua. I agree with what you said. I intentionally started out with a 1/3 of what the reactor could hold for that reason. To not strip too much too quick.

Cabinetry is nice, just not built how we asked. But we are looking to remedy that.
 
Scott, how difficult was it to fine tune your skimmer? I have one on the way using the same pump and I understand you now fine tune the skimmer by varying the pump output? Not many user reports using Bubble Kings and the RD3 yet. I guess that's a good thing LOL.
 
Honestly I fine tuned the skimmer with the outflow pipe. I have the pump normally running at 100%. I am still trying to find a happy spot since my tank itself is still immature. I feed the same amount daily so I have been inputing the same nutrients, but I'm sure the live rock, live sand, corals, etc. all vary in their waste production. I will use the 10v control to ramp down the skimmer during feeding, maintenance, and in case of emergency over flowing.
 
I have been trying to gather some intel on the best practices related to the new skimmers and the RD3 pump. I could find the they were first imported in the last three months and not a lot more. There is a lot of information in the Bubble King forum section of Premium Aquatics but nothing to recent or relevant to the new skimmers and the RD3 pump. I'm sure I'll probably get more detail when the box arrives. Until then I'll keep pocking around the RE website to see what I can learn.

Thanks again Scott!

Oh...I am sure you have seen this. Talking about skimmer overflow device Davy Jones Locker. This thing holds almost 6 liters of fish poo! The good part is that it will connect to your profilux and will shut down the skimmer and send you an email "Scott get your arse back home now"!!! A nice bit of a kit.

 
Haahaa I like that and their "swabbie" for the neck cleaning. That is one thing i have found to be an issue on my RE DC250. The neck gets dirty quickly. I assume this means I need to raise my water level a little but it's already high, too much higher and I am inviting constant over flow situations.
 
I am having a heck of a time getting my Mitras to play nice with my profilux. Does anyone out there reading this have the new PWC-PLC card installed and running their own light composer project?

I am sitting at:

Profilux Control 6.0.4
Profilux FW 6.0.0.0
Mitras FV 1.15

PWC card set on Channel 11, Address 1
Mitras 1 through 3 set on channel 11, Address 2, 3 & 4.

I can see the light composer project in Profilux control under the illumination header, but it's not sending it to the Mitras for some reason? Any knowledgable help is appreciated!

Scott
 
Others were reporting issues with Profilux firmware 6.0.0.0. Upgrading to 6.04 may solve your issue. I have the new card but haven't installed it yet. I'll do so as soon as my new 3.1N eX comes in. Hopefully I should have it in the next week and then I'll install the card.

Are all of your lights set to "slave" mode? The Profilux will serve as master and control all of your other lamps. I also think the lamps may need to occupy channels 2-5 with channel one reserved for the Profilux as the master.
 
When I first put the card in one of the Mitras were still on Master, and it resulted in a disco light show. I opened GCC and set the master Mitras to slave. Then I made sure they were all on Channel 11, Addresses 2 to 4. The PLM-PWC card was set to Channel 11, Address 1. No bueno. I couldn't see the "transfer to unit" link on the bottom of the light composer tab. I didn't know there was even supposed to be one there since there is NO documentation to be had. So I upgraded to Profilux Control 6.0.4 successfully. Then attempted to upgrade the Profilux unit to the newest FW and somewhere in the erasing flash stage there was a communication error. I had to abort the FW upgrade. Ever since if I try to click on "system" in Profilux Control it immediately gives me communication error 41 and freezes up.

I had to head back out to work so I pulled the PWC card and set the Mitras back to one master and two slaves and they work fine again. I am assuming I am going to have to perform a forced FW update on the Profilux using the GHL Flash Tool. Hopefully that will solve my issues so I can plug the card back in and get that aspect working.
 
I am working on ordering some of these up to replace my zip tie fasteners. I pulled the stainless steel hose clamps that came with my abyzz pumps, as they were corroding. I put two heavy duty zip ties on each end and tightened the hell out of them. But the back pressure on my manifold ended up popping the silicone connector right off of the lower pump. I was lucky that the pump flipped forward and starved itself of water by the intake sucking itself to the glass. I was lucky that in itself didn't crack the glass. Anywho, I put some weight, an old quiet ones pump, on the top of the abyzz to keep it from pressuring out of the silicone connector.

I am hoping the 100% titanium base clamps will do the job. Does anyone else have experience with them?

Cheers,
Scott
 
Popped off? That's nuts!!! It's also scary to know that the zip ties failed. Hopefully the titanium fasteners work. There seem to be a lot of folks using the Abyzz pumps over at Ultimatereef.com. Hope you are able to find a solution that works for the long term.

Were you able to upgrade your firmware and get everything going with your Profilux?
 
I was just lucky I was right there when it happened. The split section that it was pumping water into the air it made a hell of a mess! Both floor detectors went off awfully quick haahaa. The zip ties were heavy duty, and both pulled as tight as possible using vice grips. I have high hopes for the titanium clamps. They are $19 a piece before shipping from Spain so I hope they work :) I will wander over there and see what others are doing.

The profilux is a different cat. I haven't been home yet so I can't try the emergency flash tools on the Profilux. I am also being told that the reason I can't see the transfer to Mitras button is due to the fact that I am running windows XP. So now my to do list for when I get home is:

1) Buy a cheap laptop with a newer version of windows to run Profilux Control
2) Use the emergency flash tool to try and fix my profilux. The part that scares me is I have to use a jumper on the circuit board if using USB to perform the flash.

I have $8000 worth of GHL product on my system and haven't been impressed with the customer service from GHL. No it's not their fault I have an older pc and OS, but they could be more helpful. They ask for bunch of info and then this is the response I got from one of the moderators:

"you make it more complicated than it is, it is really straight forward"

It's NOT straight forward. There is no manual for the wireless card. The bit of info that came with it was in German.

I WILL get it working. I WILL get the networking solved. I WILL get the system running how I imagined it could. It's just going to take a bit of work.
 
Is there a version of the software that runs on any flavour of *NIX? That would get you out of the rat race of trying to keep up with consumer OS versions.

Dave.M
 
I don't know what *NIX is. To the google I go!

After a quick look, no I don't think GHL uses Nix nor can I find anything with GHL and Nix mentioned together.

I guess my issue is that I am not super computer savvy. I can reformat hard drives, install boot camps and OS and all that jazz but when it comes to programming terminology I am blind. The Profilux requires a lot of attention to keep it up to date. GHL is constantly massaging their software and releasing versions of the software. If something goes wrong the first thing they suggest is to upgrade to the most recent versions of the firmware and control software. The upgrade in itself isn't hard, but it is fickle. If anything goes wrong the during the FW upgrade the device will require and emergency flash which requires opening up the case and doing a hard reset with a button on the circuit board and using COMM Ports and flash tools. Not simple stuff. In conclusion the equipment isn't user friendly. It's extremely adaptable, and has near endless possibilities, but doesn't lend itself to plug and play.

I will be upgrading my computer to the newest OS, parallels to version 9, and buy a new copy of windows. Install it all, and the install the profilux programs and try again from the start. It's that or try to upgrade the OS on my old laptop that's plugged into the profilux. After all this I still have to figure out my networking. I may just hire someone to come in and get it running.
 
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Sorry, "*NIX" refers to any flavour of the UNIX operating system. It came before either Windows or MAC. If you're not familiar with it don't sweat it.

Dave.M
 
I got the Profilux working! I cracked the Profilux case open and found that GHL included a jumper on the JP1 post. After using the flash tool and getting the software up and running I got the Mitras sync'd up. Now I just have to tackle all the networking again.
 
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