Troutt's Reef-Pi Build

[Jonathan Troutt]

Im using a hot plate for most of it.

 

[theatrus]

Im using a hot plate for most of it.

Also fine. Depending on the pad geometry you can end up with poor filets if mis-sizing or tombstones with small parts and big pads, but nothing you’ll run into problems with that can’t be quickly fixed.

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

2 done

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

Up close view of my soldering in case anyone wants to critique

 

[Ranjib]

very nice. i have to change my circuit from orp to ph.

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

very nice. i have to change my circuit from orp to ph.

I am wanting to have both. Is reef pi going to support ORP?

 

[Ranjib]

I am wanting to have both. Is reef pi going to support ORP?

not in my priority list. if folks want it, we'll see. i find orp of little use :-/

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

not in my priority list. if folks want it, we'll see. i find orp of little use :-/

That’s fair the only reason I wanted it was because it is available if that makes sense

 

[Diamond1]

Up close view of my soldering in case anyone wants to critique

Very cool. That looks like a good solder job to me.

 

[Bigtrout]

Up close view of my soldering in case anyone wants to critique

Looking good!

Im deciding if I want to start hackin into my Beamswork lights today. Have everything I want on my build mounted in my case. I even left room for a ph board

 

[Ranjib]

Up close view of my soldering in case anyone wants to critique

Clean job

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

So i have something going on I cannot figure out. There is nothing in the LOG or the ERROR section. But on occasion my right light will turn itself off. Reef-pi shows it as being turned on. How can I figure out what is going on here?

 

[Diamond1]

So i have something going on I cannot figure out. There is nothing in the LOG or the ERROR section. But on occasion my right light will turn itself off. Reef-pi shows it as being turned on. How can I figure out what is going on here?

Start with the wiring?
If reef pi shows it as on I would check all the hardware and wires first.

 

[Bigtrout]

My first thing would be to see if you still are getting the correct signals from reef pi when the light is off but reef pi still says it is on.

 

[Diamond1]

If you have soldered cat5 cable connections you might want to check those. I noticed in my build some of the wire at the solder connection got brittle if I used to much heat on them.

I had to redo a few of them.

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

I will check signals next time I am home when it happens. Doesn’t happen all the time and a reboot solves the issue. My cat 5 connections are not soldered.

 

[Diamond1]

Cool. Just thinking out loud.

 

[Bigtrout]

I will check signals next time I am home when it happens. Doesn’t happen all the time and a reboot solves the issue. My cat 5 connections are not soldered.

Check your punchdowns if you didnt use a tool. They can sometimes look punched but arent quite down in the slot.

 

[Ranjib]

So i have something going on I cannot figure out. There is nothing in the LOG or the ERROR section. But on occasion my right light will turn itself off. Reef-pi shows it as being turned on. How can I figure out what is going on here?

timer , macro? can you run journalctl for that time period, to see what reef-pi was doing? Checkout this article, which shows --since and --until flag: https://www.linode.com/docs/quick-answers/linux/how-to-use-journalctl/

journalctl -u reef-pi.service --since "TIME" --until "TIME"

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

Hey guys man its been a minute. Sorry i dropped off the face of the earth. I started new job at the end of February and its been very hectic in my life.
Things are finally starting to calm down and a routine laid in. Anyway i have yet to install the ph board and sensor in my tank things kind of came to a screeching halt.

So i would like to know how they are working for those that got them off me? Also i am installing a diy ato i purchased the kit from aquahub and would like to use those sensors. Shouldnt be to difficult only thing i was think was might have to add some code for the second float switch.
Anyway feels good to be back. My tank got pushed aside as well ive finally got it taken care of too