Aleman
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OK, so I have two Dennerle Trocal LED lights (120cm) in my hooded tank connected up to the Trocal controller. Brilliant pieces of kit! However, due to the placement of my, fixed, internal filter I can't have on placed towards the back of the tank as I only have 88cm of space there. This means that light on my stem plants was pretty limited, and may well be the reason for my Alternanthera reinekii melting. After a bit of thinking, I decided to buy a "cheap" LED unit to go at the back and supplement the light., and selected a SuperFish 74 ... Does the job well, and when it comes on it really cranks up the pearling. It is a manual light though, and I've been spoiled with the Trocal controller, so had a look on the Bay of E to see what was available. I decided on one of these from this seller
And it works great ... manually ... I just can't seem to get it to work correctly in "User Defined" mode ... Hell I can't get it to work correctly in "Timer mode" ... It goes through the "Program" but never turns off.
This is what I've set according to Part 08
L1 - 16:00 to 16:30 Brightness 0 - Changed from 10
L2 - 16:30 to 17:00 Brightness 40 - Changed from 50
L3 - 17:00 to 17:30 Brightness 60 - Changed from 80
L4 - 1800 to 21:30 Brightness 100
L5 -21:30 to 21:45 Brightness 80
L6 - 22:00 to 22:15 Brightness 50
L7 -22:30 to 22:45 Brightness 10
L8 -23:00 to 15:59 Brightness 0 - The 15:59 cannot be changed.
One thing I'm thinking, having just typed that out, is that perhaps they don't like to intervals starting and stopping at the same time ... L5 stops at 21:30 for example, and L5 Starts at 21:30 ... I may just try setting it up to stop at 21:29 and start at 21:30 ... in spite of the example User defined schedule showing otherwise.
All/Any ideas welcome
And it works great ... manually ... I just can't seem to get it to work correctly in "User Defined" mode ... Hell I can't get it to work correctly in "Timer mode" ... It goes through the "Program" but never turns off.
This is what I've set according to Part 08
L1 - 16:00 to 16:30 Brightness 0 - Changed from 10
L2 - 16:30 to 17:00 Brightness 40 - Changed from 50
L3 - 17:00 to 17:30 Brightness 60 - Changed from 80
L4 - 1800 to 21:30 Brightness 100
L5 -21:30 to 21:45 Brightness 80
L6 - 22:00 to 22:15 Brightness 50
L7 -22:30 to 22:45 Brightness 10
L8 -23:00 to 15:59 Brightness 0 - The 15:59 cannot be changed.
One thing I'm thinking, having just typed that out, is that perhaps they don't like to intervals starting and stopping at the same time ... L5 stops at 21:30 for example, and L5 Starts at 21:30 ... I may just try setting it up to stop at 21:29 and start at 21:30 ... in spite of the example User defined schedule showing otherwise.
All/Any ideas welcome