Syncing Kessil AP700 and A360we

GregOyeah · Apr 5, 2018

Is there anyway to do this? Right now I have two Kessil A360 on my 90 gallon sps dominant tank supplemented with 4 t5's. I would eventually like to buy a AP700 and keep the two A360s on the tank and possibly remove 2 of the t5s if not all of them.

However, I dont want to the ap700 to be operating on one schedule and the 360s on another creating weird light mixes in the tank at certain times of the day. Is there a way to sync these things up? Or at least a way to match the two programs so its not noticeable?

Crabs McJones · Apr 5, 2018

GregOyeah said:
Is there anyway to do this? Right now I have two Kessil A360 on my 90 gallon sps dominant tank supplemented with 4 t5's. I would eventually like to buy a AP700 and keep the two A360s on the tank and possibly remove 2 of the t5s if not all of them.

However, I dont want to the ap700 to be operating on one schedule and the 360s on another creating weird light mixes in the tank at certain times of the day. Is there a way to sync these things up? Or at least a way to match the two programs so its not noticeable?

Unfortunately to my knowledge there isn't a way to sync the two together. The A360's are controlled via external source (Apex, spectral controller, or reefkeeper) or the knobs on the light. And AP700 can only be controlled via the WIFI App downloaded on your android or apple device or the buttons on the light itself. However you can create alike schedules on the AP700 app and the A360's controller to be almost the same.

GregOyeah · Apr 5, 2018

crabs_mcjones said:
Unfortunately to my knowledge there isn't a way to sync the two together. The A360's are controlled via external source (Apex, spectral controller, or reefkeeper) or the knobs on the light. And AP700 can only be controlled via the WIFI App downloaded on your android or apple device or the buttons on the light itself. However you can create alike schedules on the AP700 app and the A360's controller to be almost the same.

thats disapointing. I cant believe Kessil wouldnt have put ports on their AP700 so it can act as a controller to slave A360s. Or vice versa, make the AP700 a slave to the 360s controlled by the spectral controller.

when you say create alike schedules, does that mean on the AP700 program, you can control color simplistically on a 0-100 scale like the spectral controller?? Or are you just guessing by selecting areas of the color wheel and hoping it matches up?

Crabs McJones · Apr 5, 2018

GregOyeah said:
thats disapointing. I cant believe Kessil wouldnt have put ports on their AP700 so it can act as a controller to slave A360s. Or vice versa, make the AP700 a slave to the 360s controlled by the spectral controller.

when you say create alike schedules, does that mean on the AP700 program, you can control color simplistically on a 0-100 scale like the spectral controller?? Or are you just guessing by selecting areas of the color wheel and hoping it matches up?

You'd be matching colors on the color wheel to percentages on the controller. If I remember correctly on the ap700 each color choice is equivalent to a 10% increase in color. So deep ocean blue would be equivalent to 0 to 10% color ocean blue 1 would be 10-20% and so on.