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!
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Thats great dont forget to post the code it ,so others might need it that was the setup i had plan for my lights for my tank IF asked my sister who has a saltwater tank for years if you want me to make one for her,she said no wants just like they have in fish stores
Josh, congrats on the 24 hour test! ...though that made me think "what if" something failed in the system god for bid, so do you have a back up system? In my former job as a mainframe technician for my local telephony company (Which DJ now subscribes to, Telus Corp) our system had two identical copys running at the same time. Copy 0 and Copy 1 with one copy being online. This accomplished two things, should one copy fail the other would automatically go "online" providing Dial tone etc without any lost calls. The second reason was to perform maintenance on the "off line copy". It was 1984 when we shifted from an electromagentic stepper system to a processor capable of 12 megahertz WOW! Our reel to reel mag tapes which recorded the billing never failed! LOL ,it was a brave new world. During the first few months a full "global" ie reboot happened many times knocking down phone calls.....anyways
Now that my EZB saltwater tank controller has survived the first 24 hours of testing I submitted it to radioshacks Great Create
NIce Josh!
JOSH it says 6 lights where are the other 3 lights used for
Two actinic , two daylight , purple dawn dusk light and the chaeto night lights
OK ,i thought is was controlling 6 dirrent light setups,so you have few lights in parallel