Andy's 40g Breeder

This is a reset up I had this tank up a year ago but had to get out for a while to buy a house now that I am settled permanetly it is time to setup again This will be more of a progress thread then a build.

Current status of the tank is that it has been setup for 2 months and I just finished putting a DIY led light on.


Setup

Tank: 40g breeder with diy coast to coast overflow

Lights :   DIY LED's with arduino controller to dim creating sunrise/sunset effects
               18 x Bridgelux LED 3W Royal Blue
                  3 x Epileds LED 3W Red
                  6 x Epileds LED 3W Ultra Violet(UV)
                  6 x Bridgelux LED 3W white 4500K
                  3 x Bridgelux LED 3W Pink
                  6 x Bridgelux LED 3W white 6500K
                  6 x 420nm Actinic Violet LED
                  3 x Cyan LED 3W
                  3 x Green LED 3W
                  3 x Bridgelux LED 3W Blue

Skimmer: EuroReef

Flow:   MP10 and Ehiem 1262 return pump conected to a squid to create some random flow another MP10 will come in the future

Dosing:   2 bulk reef supply 1.1ml pumps dosing randys 2part

Full Tank Shots

4-20-13


Edited by sanddune600 - April 20 2013 at 11:13am

Welcome back Andy... Tank is looking good and I like the aquascape!

I have been hard at work on a diy Arduino based controller for those of you that dont know what arduino is its a software developed around building your own electronics with a microprocessors to do programmed tasks it is designed to be affordable and easy to learn this is my first real attempt at making something with it pics to come.

things done (as far as programming none of it is put together into anything that works yet

display with menu
temp read out
heater control with adjustable temps
high/low temp peaks so I can look for swings
alk/cal dosing setup so I select how many ml I want it to dose per day and it dose 1/2 that twice a day
PH readout is programmed but still need to figure out how I want to hook up the probe to the controller
Time (may not seem like much till you do it:;)
ATO control comes on at lower float turns off at higher float (think I am going to change this to turn on every hour and turn off at lower float this will leave the higher available for alarms)


to do
alarms probably get a buzzer so it gets the families attention of a problem
put it all together

this is the whole controller now as it sits in prototype stage it will be mounted into a box shortly

this is the main menu it is rough right now and has things that dont need to be there it displays time ph and temp along with some numbers I displayed to make sure I had my math right for alk/cal dosing

here is how i set my alk/cal dosing

here is temp setup menu

here is my min and max temps resetablemanually


I know the pictures are bad it is hard to take pictures of the dispaly

I could have this running this weekend if I got focused on it but I dont think I will work on it much we will see if my mood is up to it ;)

Andy, There is a group on another forum that is doing an Arduino based controller that is quite far along. you should check it out.

Edited by Krazie4Acans - May 16 2013 at 11:24am

I am running my diy controller everything that is going to run through it is running with the exception of ATO still waiting on floats here is a snapshot of the main menu notice the bottom bar says check floats this is an alarm that comes up because the controller said to fill but never reached full level so turned the ato back off till I fix my floats in this case install them

main menu


the controller that needs to go in a project box


here are the outlets from top left to bottom right they control Calcium pump, Alk pump, ato, and heater

I assume you are using Java for the actual code? Which Arduino board are you using?

I got some new pics of the tank today been pretty slow going on this tank just to busy with other things in life some things are a little bleached from a bad float that I was waiting for parts and I flooded the tank with to much fresh water adding top off manually.