The wife gave me all day Saturday to myself to work in the garage. I was able to finish building the box for the controller. I also got the new pump installed. I'm running the pump at 90% to get enough flow for all the equipment and still have good flow through the tank.
My equipment that I'm running off of it are:
Chiller
Protein Skimmer
Carbon Reactor
CA Reactor
The first two devices take quite a bit of flow to run efficiently, which is why I'm probably having to run the pump so high.
The new pump is significantly quieter than the old huge one, although I do notice that it's a little louder the second day. We'll see what it sounds like in a week.
With everything still in the garage, it looks like it's taking about 4 hours for the tank to raise one degree and set off the chiller. Then the chiller runs about 2 hours to chill the tank back down one degree. I'm thinking about changing this to a half degree swing. Once inside, I think it will probably swing a lot slower due to the house temperature being significantly less than what the garage currently is (August in Texas).
Anyways, here's a few pictures
The controller as it sits now. Still need to glue it and paint it, but wanted to test first
new plumbing. Still missing the wavemaker and second pump
