Davy Jones
Senior Member
Last night, I had my circuit pop in my fish room for some reason. I got alerts, texts and emails that apex was disconnected as I have heartbeat setup. HOWEVER, my phone was on vibrate, so I did not wake up for any of it. On top of that, my EB832 is no longer working after this. None of the outlets are working/turning on. There is the red exclamation mark in the power monitoring section and I can not get it to work. Have tried all the troubleshooting I can find, now just waiting on neptune to get back to me.
So here is where I am at.
OPTION 1. I have 2 20 amp gfci circuits in my fish room (the breakers themselves are gfci). Last night one of the 2 flipped taking my apex offline and thus 90% of the tank. I am looking to increase the redundancy here incase this happens again. I think the easiest solution would be to buy another eb8, and connect half of my equipment to that one, and plug that into the second circuit. This would keep half of the tank running, which is better than none of the tank running. This would cost me 2 Energy bars. (or 3 if neptune cant fix the one I have) as I have 2 apexes and have 2 systems. The downside, is there is no protection for a true power outage. I would still need to get a UPS or Battery backups to take care of the tanks.
OPTION 2. Purchase a large UPS to run the tanks. This option is not very realistic, but still an option none the less. The ups would be very expensive and take up a ton of space to want to run the tanks for say 4-8 hours. I would want to run 3 dc return pumps and 2 heaters minimum
OPTION 3. Find an Automatic transfer switch to allow both tanks to run on both circuits. This way, if one circuit goes down the Transfer switch automatically swaps to the second circuit. I could upgrade to a 30 amp circuit if needed for this option. Issues again are cost, space, and no help during actual power outages.
Here is what I want in light of any of the above options.
1. Some form of loud audible alarm should my tank lose power.
2. Some redundancy should a circuit pop for whatever reason.
3. Some backup power to keep the tanks alive for short/medium periods of time or until I am able to setup a generator if long term outage
4. A way to have notifications come through a device no matter what sound setting it is on.. i.e. If apex is offline, than loud annoying text sound/phone call/email alert etc EVEN IF PHONE IS ON SILENT
Basically if I am sleeping and the tank loses power I want to be awake, AND I want the tank to take care of it self for a period of time until I am able to do something about it.
So here is where I am at.
OPTION 1. I have 2 20 amp gfci circuits in my fish room (the breakers themselves are gfci). Last night one of the 2 flipped taking my apex offline and thus 90% of the tank. I am looking to increase the redundancy here incase this happens again. I think the easiest solution would be to buy another eb8, and connect half of my equipment to that one, and plug that into the second circuit. This would keep half of the tank running, which is better than none of the tank running. This would cost me 2 Energy bars. (or 3 if neptune cant fix the one I have) as I have 2 apexes and have 2 systems. The downside, is there is no protection for a true power outage. I would still need to get a UPS or Battery backups to take care of the tanks.
OPTION 2. Purchase a large UPS to run the tanks. This option is not very realistic, but still an option none the less. The ups would be very expensive and take up a ton of space to want to run the tanks for say 4-8 hours. I would want to run 3 dc return pumps and 2 heaters minimum
OPTION 3. Find an Automatic transfer switch to allow both tanks to run on both circuits. This way, if one circuit goes down the Transfer switch automatically swaps to the second circuit. I could upgrade to a 30 amp circuit if needed for this option. Issues again are cost, space, and no help during actual power outages.
Here is what I want in light of any of the above options.
1. Some form of loud audible alarm should my tank lose power.
2. Some redundancy should a circuit pop for whatever reason.
3. Some backup power to keep the tanks alive for short/medium periods of time or until I am able to setup a generator if long term outage
4. A way to have notifications come through a device no matter what sound setting it is on.. i.e. If apex is offline, than loud annoying text sound/phone call/email alert etc EVEN IF PHONE IS ON SILENT
Basically if I am sleeping and the tank loses power I want to be awake, AND I want the tank to take care of it self for a period of time until I am able to do something about it.
