1st Power outage

Hommeworks · 05-19-2003, 12:08 PM

This morning we experienced our 1st power outage since the tank went up 1 year ago. Just after I left the house, I got a call that the pumps and lights were off. The weather is excellent, so not much fear of catastrophy. Just a overcast day on the reef.

Power came on 1 hour later and all is fine. I guess we get power outages here due to moderate temperatures, sunny blue skies and zero wind conditions. And I thought it would take the 'big one'.

beach bum · 05-19-2003, 12:52 PM

Everyone turns on those AC units and look out... rolling blackouts are coming! Isn't California wonderful?

But man, tell me the weather right now isn't absolutely perfect. Go on, I dare ya! Should be 90 by the end of the week.

Buzz_Hog · 05-19-2003, 01:14 PM

Yeah.... Now's a good time for everyone to check the levels on their sumps and make sure their overflows are dialed in....

Prismaco · 05-19-2003, 01:34 PM

On U tubes, theres no way that they can start them selves back up to syphoning ?

-Paul

binylee · 05-19-2003, 01:52 PM

Unless the syphoning was lost due to a lot of buble of air build up... etc. I never experience the U tube lost its syphone while power went out.

thefatman · 05-19-2003, 01:58 PM

yup. U tubes are preferable because they DO hold thier siphon. the cpr type overlfows without u tubes DONT hold the siphon.

Prismaco · 05-19-2003, 04:21 PM

Ok!!! I see I thought it was the other way around. A good way to test your tank would to pull the plug and see how high it goes in your over flow to determin if its ok ?

-Paul

thefatman · 05-19-2003, 05:11 PM

thats what i did on the 55. filled the tank. fileld the sump, had it all runnin. shut it all down. then fileld the sump to within 3 inches of the top. then started it all up again and watched lcosely to make sure the supihon held. then kept turning it on and off a number of times, jsut ot be sure the sump didnt overflow.

when i was sure of the level, then i ran it again and marked the level in the sump, so i know how much to top off when i do my topoff

Casey · 05-19-2003, 06:31 PM

that worked for me to Jay

Calvinc4s · 05-20-2003, 01:08 AM

"I got a call that the pumps and lights were off"

Was that from a computer or someone you live with?
I think I remember the aquacontroler being able to do this and was wondering how well it works?

Stang69 · 05-20-2003, 01:13 AM

Someone reciently did a post on that but cant remember where I seen it seems it was on here ut not sure. (the notifying thing via pager)

Jeff

asmith · 05-20-2003, 09:35 AM

I believe this is the software that will page you in the event of a poweroutage or if one of your water parameters falls out of the proper range. I am planning on running this one of these days, but I can't afford the aquacontoller right now.

http://www.mv.com/users/besposito/reef.html

Andrew

Hommeworks · 05-20-2003, 02:48 PM

Sorry, I got busy. My S.O. called me to say the juice was off.

dwall174 · 05-20-2003, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Calvinc4s
"I got a call that the pumps and lights were off"

Was that from a computer or someone you live with?
I think I remember the aquacontroler being able to do this and was wondering how well it works?

That’s cool if either the Neptune or Octopus systems can do that! I would imagine that you would also need a UPS to run the computer when the power goes out?
I’m lucky I guess! A good friend of mine has his own alarm business & he install an alarm system “At Cost” for me! The alarm will send me a text message if the power goes out even if the alarm is not set!

I have seen several DIY plans for automatic power back ups & plan to try to build one (with my alarm friends help) here's a LINK for one that's a plug & play system

dotel · 05-20-2003, 09:35 PM

My webservers are located in the same house. and they will tell me if power is lost. So I can assume if power is out in one room, it will be out in the living room as well. And I didn't bother putting UPS's on my tank.