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- Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:56 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Thermometer?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1717
Some off topic info on heaters and temperature control. Also of note there are many temperature probes and switch with a deadband of 1C or 2F. This prevents the heater from cycling on/off frequently which saves energy. The inrush current for turning on an inductive load is very high and if your heat...
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:47 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Thermometer?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1717
In ancient times like 50 years ago that was very true. Watches were wound and people used telephone company time as the standard. But today with digital clocks and GPS updates the boss doesn't believe my watch was slow? I work in the industrial controls field and will install several meters in a sys...
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:28 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Thermometer?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1717
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:22 pm
- Forum: Announcements, comments & suggestions
- Topic: BBQ beef and cole slaw recipe from January meeting
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1865
- Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:28 am
- Forum: Aquarium Plants
- Topic: Floating Plant Options - Advice & Suggestions
- Replies: 5
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I have always like water sprite as an easy growing floater. It is big so it is easy to prune. I also have other plants like bacopa and cabomba furcata floating which flower regularly. The big thing is to prune before they shade the rest of the tank. One of the benefits of leaves above the water line...
- Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:56 am
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: CO2 SYSTEM - Seeking Advice & Suggestions
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7162
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:53 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: CO2 SYSTEM - Seeking Advice & Suggestions
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7162
I agree with just about everything said. Two things I wanted to stress: 1) Milwakee regulators will dump and kill your tank. I have killed Mary's tank twice and mine once. Her tank is 6 gallons so it was affected a lot more but when my 20 Ib tank dumped on my 70 I still lost fish. We have switched t...
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:54 pm
- Forum: DIY
- Topic: pluming advice: 3/8 PEX solid pipes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2156
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:52 pm
- Forum: DIY
- Topic: pluming advice: 3/8 PEX solid pipes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2156
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:42 pm
- Forum: Announcements, comments & suggestions
- Topic: Plant list from ASW
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2894