1st Power outage

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Hommeworks

Discussion Starter · May 19, 2003

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'.

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beach bum

· #2 · May 19, 2003

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

· #3 · May 19, 2003

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

Prismaco

· #4 · May 19, 2003

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

-Paul

binylee

· #5 · May 19, 2003

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

· #6 · May 19, 2003

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

Prismaco

· #7 · May 19, 2003

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

· #8 · May 19, 2003

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

· #9 · May 19, 2003

that worked for me to Jay

Calvinc4s

· #10 · May 20, 2003

"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

· #11 · May 20, 2003

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

· #12 · May 20, 2003

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

Discussion Starter · #13 · May 20, 2003

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

dwall174

· #14 · May 20, 2003

Calvinc4s said:
"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

· #15 · May 21, 2003

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.

Buzz_Hog

· #16 · May 21, 2003

Great.... so my tank can call me and laugh at me about the sump overflowing onto the floor when I'm 50 miles away and can't do a darn thing about it..... :funny:

dwall174

· #17 · May 21, 2003

Yep that's one draw back

But can’t you just picture that priceless look that you’ll get when you try to explain to your boss that you have to go home because your fish tank just called you to let you know that there’s a problem? :funny:

Calvinc4s

· #18 · May 21, 2003

you have to go home because your fish tank just called

ROTFLMAO

dotel

· #19 · May 21, 2003

dwall174 said:
Yep that's one draw back But can't you just picture that priceless look that you'll get when you try to explain to your boss that you have to go home because your fish tank just called you to let you know that there's a problem? :funny:

Hey if you don't believe me, you can talk to the tank youself Mr. Boss.

dwall174

· #20 · May 22, 2003

Buzz_Hog said:
Great.... so my tank can call me and laugh at me about the sump overflowing onto the floor when I'm 50 miles away and can't do a darn thing about it..... :funny:

Better yet with THIS & a good UPS system your tank could even send you a picture (if your luckly enough to be near a computer at work) :funny:

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