Temperature Profile

[hfleming]

I recently added the Digital Aquatics net module that provides graphs of all of the devices. The picture below is the temperature profile for my tank over a 24 hour period.

My system is a 150 gallon display with 800 watts of MH lights. The sump and frag system is in the basement with about 110 gallons total and a 400 watt MH light. It get's cool in the basement which is why the heater is now starting to run at night.

The spikes on the graph are the chiller running or the heater running.

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[weaglereefer]

Very cool! Do you have the heater and chiller controlled by the RKE? I'd be interested to see the power draws from each unit, and you could determine if raising or lowering the temp by a degree or two would save some money on the power bill.

 

[gnashty]

how did you import that data to the format its in to show us? did you re-create the data or is that pulled directly from the NET interface? Ive been trying to do that for a while just havent figured out how yet...

or are you running beta?

 

[hfleming]

I am controlling the heater and chiller with the RKL, however I the main power to them is going through a DIY relay box so I can't see the amperage with the RKL.

Soon I will add another PC4 and will be able to do exactly what you describe. My goal is to have all devices for the tank connected to the controller but that also means an upgrade to RKE since the RKL will only handle 4 modules.

weaglereefer;579043 wrote: Very cool! Do you have the heater and chiller controlled by the RKE? I'd be interested to see the power draws from each unit, and you could determine if raising or lowering the temp by a degree or two would save some money on the power bill.

 

[hfleming]

No not running beta. I used excel, Here is how:

Log into the net module and go to the Logging/RSS page

Select which graph you want to view, for example the iTemp graph

After the graph is displayed, near the top left corner of the graph is a link that says "export graph data".

When you select export is will bring up the raw data in a window which I found was pretty useless even if you do save it to a csv file.

Copy the path that is displayed in the address bar of the raw data window. For example http://your-netmodule-address/protect/data1.csv">http://your-netmodule-address/protect/data1.csv</a>

I used excel to open that data1.csv file by selecting open and then pasting that link into open file location box. Excell will probably ask you to log into the net module.

You should see 2 columns of data in excel. One is the date and time column and the other is the sensor data.

Now just seclect the 2 columuns and create a graph of temp vs time. One thing that helped was I changed the date and time column formatting to remove the date and just be time only with am/pm.

You have to repeat the same process for each channel you want to graph but once you have each opened in excel you can cut and paste all of the channels onto the same graph.


[QUOTE=][B]gnashty;579054 wrote:[/B] how did you import that data to the format its in to show us? did you re-create the data or is that pulled directly from the NET interface? Ive been trying to do that for a while just havent figured out how yet...

or are you running beta?[/QUOTE]