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Looks pretty cool.

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Looks really nice.

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At least I got to see one of these at MACNA last week. That should hold me over till he get's some pic's posted up here.

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Cool bud!!!! Finally got the lights on!! Looking great

Thanks bro.

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Very nice Ron. Glad to see things are coming together. Did Junior build the light stand for you?

Nope, was asking around and found out that a couple of guy's I work with are welders. One guy lives in Hutto also so he was able to stop by and get accurate measurements and best of all...... it only cost me for material's.

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Here's a pic showing the variable speed fan's, these will speed up or slow down automatically as the temperature changes.

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That is too cool. Does the speed change from the controller measuring the water temp or from a sensor in the light measuring the temp in the fixture?

C'mon....hook a geek up

These are the icecap variable speed fan's, I found 4 used at a decent price. These have the temp sensor integrated with the fan, here's the old icecap fan as well as the coralvue rendition. http://www.innovativ...ic-fan-120.html http://coralvue.com/smart-fans/

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Here's a pic showing the variable speed fan's, these will speed up or slow down automatically as the temperature changes.

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Thats cool James,

Finally found someone to build a light stand for my led setup. With all led's on it's more of 10K look so it's perfectly blended but that is without any optic's added. The stand is adjustable in height as well as front to back. I still need to finish up everything, control light bleed and get it looking neat.

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I would check Alk level's, my old tank would drop 2.5dHH a day if I turned off my CaRx. Low alk will cause recession in sps if low, you make want to triple check salinity also in case something happened with your top-off method(i.e. somehow topping off with saltwater while away etc.)

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Looking good.

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Coming along nicely James.

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Tank is sold

The weather feature is reserved for the PWM feature that the AI lights use. Ive tried every configuration I could find and none work with the apex and 48D drivers. The drivers just cannot dim fast enough via 0-10v port.

Ahh yes, you are quite correct. My brain was locked into (output is 0-10V) for some reason.

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From what Ive read, the response time on the drivers prevent the lightning feature in the apex from working. Cloud cover can be simulated (I got this to work...) but thats it. I just use 4 different ramp modes. Ramp up blue, ramp down blue, and ramp up/down white. I dont have as many colors though lol. Your right about the users just blasting the tanks with lights. I did the same thing when I got mine. Now I run my blues up to around 75% and whites never exceed 40%. Corals are much happier and sps is growing well.

Pretty sure you can do lightning with an APEX. May need to upgrade the VDM firmware or figure at worst I can figure out and build a lil' op amp circuit if need be.

This is what the profile looks like to create the below "storm"

Type: weather

Minimum Intensity: 10

Maximum Intensity: 90

Cloud Duration: 2

Cloudy Percentage: 75

Lightning Amount: 100

Lightning Interval: 90

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New hotness that I couldn't resist.

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Only gonna have 2 seperate "program's" besides a weather(storm) program. First program's priority is providing as much of the 400-700nm wavelegth as possible to the coral's, the second would be the last few hours of what looks good to me. Hopefully I have everything laid out well enough that what I like and the coral's like are one in the same. A lot of folk's run into issues with led's due to one of three common user error's. They either blast their tank with way too much light right off the bat, they purchased led's that lack enough of the correct spectrum's for what they are keeping, or even if they purchase a unit with adequate spectrum's, they tweek the color to what looks good to them, which in reality reduces the necessary spectrum 's that some of the coral' may need.

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I like your light priorities. Im going to have to remember that one when I finish mine. Good luck your setup is looking pretty bad ***

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Thanks Chris. I've tried the high saltwater concentration idea and it didn't really work.

The ring may be a good idea. I'll have to think of something like that. Wish I had the space for a 200g container, then I could just dump an entire bucket into the container.

You could alway's expand the closet.

A couple of MP40's would look so much cleaner in there.

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Only gonna have 2 seperate "program's" besides a weather(storm) program. First program's priority is providing as much of the 400-700nm wavelegth as possible to the coral's, the second would be the last few hours of what looks good to me. Hopefully I have everything laid out well enough that what I like and the coral's like are one in the same. A lot of folk's run into issues with led's due to one of three common user error's. They either blast their tank with way too much light right off the bat, they purchased led's that lack enough of the correct spectrum's for what they are keeping, or even if they purchase a unit with adequate spectrum's, they tweek the color to what looks good to them, which in reality reduces the necessary spectrum 's that some of the coral' may need.

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More work on the distribution panel at least. The VDM will be mounted on here as well with 4 CAT5 cables running to the driver's . I now have more color spectrum's added and I'm well over 100 led's. I have cool white, neutral white, blue, royal blue, violet, turquoise, deep red and green. As mentioned above, running the deep red and turquoise together saves on adding an additional driver. Still have room for more spectrum's when available.

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How are you controlling these?

Apex and a VDM module.

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You IT guys get all the cool toys!

Nice work and clean!

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Gotta finish up the distribution panel and the cables from there to the light's then it's rainbow time.Still figuring out the best mounting option.

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Here's a couple of the royal blue groups.

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