Neptune Alarm Advanced Tips

[Swank1987]

Curious what advanced alarm configurations people
Had for their Neptunes.

I’d like alarms for the following:

Alarm to turn my power heads back on if I forget to turn them on after 15 minutes.

Alarm to turn off DOS if pH is over 8.5

Alarm to turn off return pump if low water is on

Any other helpful alarm config tips?

 

[shanepike]

Alarm to turn my power heads back on if I forget to turn them on after 15 minutes.

If you turn an outlet off, I'm not sure if you can programatically turn it back on again. Instead, use the feed modes. You have four that you can set to different times.

Here's the programming for one of my powerheads:

Fallback ON
Set ON
If FeedA 000 Then OFF
If FeedB 000 Then OFF
Defer 000:01 Then ON

Alarm to turn off DOS if pH is over 8.5

Here's my DOS programming:

If pH > 8.10 Then OFF
If Output ReturnPump = OFF Then OFF

Alarm to turn off return pump if low water is on

Put this in the programming for your return pump:

If [name of your low water sensor] CLOSED Then OFF

(Depending on how you set it up, you may need to use OPEN instead of CLOSED.

Any other helpful alarm config tips?

This guide is phenomenal. I consistently find it to be more accurate that Neptune's own forum, and I consult it all the time:

Neptune Apex Programming Tutorials Part 1

The first in a series of articles about programming Neptune Apex Controllers for your reef aquarium.

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Swank1987]

If you turn an outlet off, I'm not sure if you can programatically turn it back on again. Instead, use the feed modes. You have four that you can set to different times.

Here's the programming for one of my powerheads:

Fallback ON
Set ON
If FeedA 000 Then OFF
If FeedB 000 Then OFF
Defer 000:01 Then ON



Here's my DOS programming:

If pH > 8.10 Then OFF
If Output ReturnPump = OFF Then OFF



Put this in the programming for your return pump:

If [name of your low water sensor] CLOSED Then OFF

(Depending on how you set it up, you may need to use OPEN instead of CLOSED.




This guide is phenomenal. I consistently find it to be more accurate that Neptune's own forum, and I consult it all the time:

Neptune Apex Programming Tutorials Part 1

The first in a series of articles about programming Neptune Apex Controllers for your reef aquarium.

www.reef2reef.com

This is very helpful. Thanks.