SHOmuchFUN
11/12/2004, 06:16 PM
Well, after waiting patiently for my unit to arrive and by manually plugging/unplugging fans and monitoring temperature closely with a digital temp. I had to set up my reefkeeper.
I spent an hour routing wires, taking off existing timers, and running in my heater and fan cables to be controlled with the unit. On the second hour, I plugged in the unit and it worked fine for about 2 minutes, then everything turned off, but the display, and the channels did a little "night rider" dance going from right to left and back and then it would kick back on. This would last few more minutes before the same routine. It would display temperature and would operate normally for those first few minutes, but would repeat at what seemingly was a random timing... At first, I thought it was the turning on of the heater, as it was a fairly robust heater at 350w, so I thought it may be tripping a breaker or something... But I then unplugged the heater when all that was plugged in were the fans (not operational at the set temp) the actinics lights (only 100w) and the halides (which were still in the 'safe' mode). So all that was operating were the actinics and the heater which was then unplugged.
I thought maybe there was a loose connection of some sort, but I inspected my installation and all seemed to be fine.
After reviewing this forum, it looks like someone else was having a similar problem... I hope this can get corrected ASAP, as I'm having problems keeping my tank temp paramters stable with the system I'm currently running and my patience is running low, now needing to rewire my cabinet AGAIN to get my lights timed correctly again.
TIA
Erik Engstrom
I spent an hour routing wires, taking off existing timers, and running in my heater and fan cables to be controlled with the unit. On the second hour, I plugged in the unit and it worked fine for about 2 minutes, then everything turned off, but the display, and the channels did a little "night rider" dance going from right to left and back and then it would kick back on. This would last few more minutes before the same routine. It would display temperature and would operate normally for those first few minutes, but would repeat at what seemingly was a random timing... At first, I thought it was the turning on of the heater, as it was a fairly robust heater at 350w, so I thought it may be tripping a breaker or something... But I then unplugged the heater when all that was plugged in were the fans (not operational at the set temp) the actinics lights (only 100w) and the halides (which were still in the 'safe' mode). So all that was operating were the actinics and the heater which was then unplugged.
I thought maybe there was a loose connection of some sort, but I inspected my installation and all seemed to be fine.
After reviewing this forum, it looks like someone else was having a similar problem... I hope this can get corrected ASAP, as I'm having problems keeping my tank temp paramters stable with the system I'm currently running and my patience is running low, now needing to rewire my cabinet AGAIN to get my lights timed correctly again.
TIA
Erik Engstrom