jstarne1
Ez Robot community I wanted to introduce my latest application of this system. Some members hear already know I keep two salt water aquariums one coral which unfortunately died off and my predator tank. Sea life needs delicate balance maintained in their little ecosystem. Things like light spectrum , temperature, ph balance , current of water , nitrate and ammonia levels and calcium levels. These things take a practiced hand to maintain. I am building a new system and using ez b to monitor salinity, nitrates and ammonia, temp , water current flow and the ph. The ADC ports are useful for these and EZ board can control the current and switching to a backup power supply ( a apc for computers inside the cabinet to keep ezb and pumps powered). Also the ezb can turn on and off night , morning , day , and evening lighting settings. With a custom injection device im designing ezb can provide nutrients , calcium and even medicine if levels are out of wack. I started the build today and I am very excited!
JOSH i ordered a few float switches to tell if i need water,.and may use a pump to add the water
FLOAT switches for great for water level,i get tired of adding water to my tank
one i found is about $5 from china,can easy make one using a magnet and a reedswitch and ball going up and down on a pole,but for $5 ,you cant match the cost to make and seal it
float switch
Ok EZ Board integration starts today. Im using a 1U rackmount server case for a slimline mount either horizontal or vertical on its side. All the relays and ez board are short enough for the 2 inch thick steel encloser.
First step is ezb needs a powerful and reliable 12v and 5v power supply. A 1u 200w server psu is perfect!
The green wire in the atx and ground must be connected to trigger a psu on. I will use a rocker switch for this.
Round switch is psu power. This reboots ezb and powers down relays and leds. Main power to control. Two blue switches are main actinic lights and secondary lights. Green is the lower chaeto and refugium light. Red is uv sanitation switch.Wow, very colorful. Do they light up? Looks like Christmas!
Yes they will all light up behind the 5 percent window tint on the cabinet. -low profile blue rocker- main ezb and system power , only used to reboot Position 1 blue toggle- actinic blue 55 watt bulbs Position 2 blue toggle- purple dawn and twilight bulb -green toggle- Refugium and Chaeto light source Red toggle- Ultraviolet Sanitation light source
Its nice to be able to turn off the uv to administer medicine. The uv light and carbon reactor pull most everything out of the water including medicine. A perfect example is the Gold and Maroon clown had developed an infection during the algae outbreak. . The antibiotic will be destroyed by uv and then absorbed by the carbon reactor.
You can see where scales are distressed and shedding. This is being treated now and the data is being used to build a injection system.Beautiful jstarne! of course we're all waiting to see robotic fish swimming around making medicine moot!........not that Ive gone completely to the silicon side
......carbon based life forms are still my favorite
@irobot thankyou! This should be a challenging project but maybe once I get everything working maybe I will offer a kit for DIY aquarium enthusiasts.
My family are begging me to "patent" the setup lol.
There are high dollar systems out there that do these things on very large industrial sized systems.
Places like this piece together other products to get things to work but are way pricey and over complicated to perform their tasks. Draquarium.com
This is one of the cheapest and well know units but it must be manually programmed. Its basically a fancy alarm clock that also turns one main light on and off. Anything else is additional and this alone is 350 dollars. https://www.marinedepot.com/Digital_Aquatics_ReefKeeper_Elite_(Plus)_Controller_Multi_Item_Monitors_Controllers_for_Saltwater_Aquariums-Digital_Aquatics-DA1115-FITEMOMI-vi.html
With ezb ,a few switching transistors, handful of leds , and relays for 110v equipment we can do everything they do and much much more.
This is a really interesting build. I'd like to see more people doing out of the norm stuff with EZ-B. Have you gotten any coworkers interested in the EZ-Robot robolution?