Neptune Apex Disaster (3 Viewers)

[asifiqbal2]

Me personally I have not lost faith in the Apex System overall. In my opinion it is the best controller overall as software drives the control and the user interface drives the ease of use which is both solid in my book. I upgraded my system less than 2 years ago if they offer an improved Outlet upgrade that doesn’t cause this to me in the future I would buy it

 

[Varig]

I guess I have a slightly different philosophy. To me the absolute, number one priority is hardware reliability. Followed closely by a reliable network connection (for notifications of alarm states). And third is user interface/programming.

Yes, the initial set up of the GHL took a little bit to get used to their programming architecture, but now that I understand how to do it, I have not came across something that’s not possible in terms of control scheme. Though I admit, some things are a bit roundabout.

For me, the biggest downside of the GHL is, I don’t think there is any “heartbeat” functionality. It sends me alarms if there’s an alarm, it sends me twice daily emails with my tank conditions. But I think the only way that I would know if the system was off-line is if I did not get one of those twice daily emails. And I don’t feel like getting an email every hour that says “I’m still online.” maybe I’m just missing it, but that’s the one feature that I wish GHL would add.

But beyond that, I believe the hardware is much more robust, at least from everything I’ve been told/read and from my own experience with how heavily built the power bars and dosing heads are.

To each his/her own though

 

[Chris Goetz]

If changing the EB solved the issue, then I think that bad power caused your corruption. That is a killer for microprocessors and memory devices. I wouldn't lose faith in the whole Apex ecosystem over it.

That being said, the EB832 is problematic, and always has been. I've had some outlets in on the old EB8s get toasted, but never the whole unit. I think I have thrown away 4 EB832s at this point.

Interesting take Tim - so given that perspective, do you think that using the auxiliary power supply for the apex brain rather than getting power from the eb832 might alleviate these concerns?

Also - has anyone already done the research on what SD cards are best for replacing original ones if they are more prone to issues?

 

[asifiqbal2]

@spsick posted a pic of a good one.
Ben you can share your experience. Although Tim’s hypothesis makes sense the Eb32s frying the SD

 

[asifiqbal2]

I guess I have a slightly different philosophy. To me the absolute, number one priority is hardware reliability. Followed closely by a reliable network connection (for notifications of alarm states). And third is user interface/programming.

Yes, the initial set up of the GHL took a little bit to get used to their programming architecture, but now that I understand how to do it, I have not came across something that’s not possible in terms of control scheme. Though I admit, some things are a bit roundabout.

For me, the biggest downside of the GHL is, I don’t think there is any “heartbeat” functionality. It sends me alarms if there’s an alarm, it sends me twice daily emails with my tank conditions. But I think the only way that I would know if the system was off-line is if I did not get one of those twice daily emails. And I don’t feel like getting an email every hour that says “I’m still online.” maybe I’m just missing it, but that’s the one feature that I wish GHL would add.

But beyond that, I believe the hardware is much more robust, at least from everything I’ve been told/read and from my own experience with how heavily built the power bars and dosing heads are.

To each his/her own though

Agreed to each to their own.

 

[Nezw0001]

My high quality SD cards arrived. Should I go ahead and replace it even though everything seems to be working fine now? It kind of looks like a big process to do so.

 

[MistakesWereMade]

The actual process of replacing is rather quick. I did mine a few months ago. I had to redo all the naming and scheduling. I thought there was a way to save it but I clearly misread the instructions. I did screenshot a bunch of the setup functions so it was fairly quick to just set it up from scratch.

 

[Nezw0001]

I saved my cofig file so in theory I should be able to re load that. you know of anywhere that the directions are saved? Although Im not sure I want to risk loosing all my programming now that it is actually working.

 

[spsick]

I had found instructions on R2R. I haven’t gotten to doing mine, so I can’t speculate but I feel like I recall you just copy the files and format the card the same and it works.

 

[Ben Nicholls]

There is a PDF save of your current config. Be sure to save that before you start. If all else fails you can copy paste from that to reprogram. You can use the config backup and restore, but you have to make sure all the modules get the same address. To do that you have to reconnect them in order so they are assigned the # you need. If you restore and they are not at the same address you'll have a mess.