Well since the cook off of my tank due to a faulty heater and at the advice of my zeo brothers in arms, a controller has become painfully obvious as an essential piece of equipment.
To begin, I have outlined my needs as follows:
temp monitor and control
ph monitor and control
salinity monitor
monitor and control for all equipment
skimmer, pumps, lights, reactor(zeo and ca)
ability to hook a couple of flood switches for auto top off
ability to store and retrieve data - I want to be able to pull this into a web page and be able to monitior from anywhere - I would even like to control individual components from the web.
With those defined, the available units the meet that criteria are the Aquatronica, the Aquacontroller units.
I think the Aquatronica is too new still and since a lot of the features aren't out yet, I have a hard time buying this unit.
I am torn between the Aquacontroller III Pro and the Aquacontroller II. Like I said, I eventually want this thing to be web enabled. With the 3 Pro, it sounds like it is pretty much plug and play. Just need to run the cable to my router. Of course it comes with a heafty price. The other thought is the II - get it set up now and eventually purchase another pc to hook up to the controller. Then probably have to write some code to get it to do everything I want it to. With both these units, I would be running DC4 units, not the X10 stuff.
what are your guys' thoughts?
To begin, I have outlined my needs as follows:
temp monitor and control
ph monitor and control
salinity monitor
monitor and control for all equipment
skimmer, pumps, lights, reactor(zeo and ca)
ability to hook a couple of flood switches for auto top off
ability to store and retrieve data - I want to be able to pull this into a web page and be able to monitior from anywhere - I would even like to control individual components from the web.
With those defined, the available units the meet that criteria are the Aquatronica, the Aquacontroller units.
I think the Aquatronica is too new still and since a lot of the features aren't out yet, I have a hard time buying this unit.
I am torn between the Aquacontroller III Pro and the Aquacontroller II. Like I said, I eventually want this thing to be web enabled. With the 3 Pro, it sounds like it is pretty much plug and play. Just need to run the cable to my router. Of course it comes with a heafty price. The other thought is the II - get it set up now and eventually purchase another pc to hook up to the controller. Then probably have to write some code to get it to do everything I want it to. With both these units, I would be running DC4 units, not the X10 stuff.
what are your guys' thoughts?
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