I just wanted to Start a thread on My re-build recovery efforts as I have had some great advise and would like to share the process as it is happening. Hopefully others can learn from my mistakes and avoid some of the heartache I have suffered.
4/21/23 19:22 GFCI tripped from faulty cooling fan. Ecotech Battery backup did not work. Apex did not notify me of power failure. Tank is at my office. Arrived at work 4/22/23 at 8:00 to almost total loss. Tank temp was 68˚. I removed all the bodies and only had anemones, Leather corals and sinularia left alive in the tank. I want to unpack this a bit.
The faulty fan was this one: cooling fan It was only 2 years old. This was mounted over my sump and was not wet but did have a bit of salt creep on it. Once removed from the tank I plugged it into a normal outlet and was shocked. Dumb move on my part. If you isolate something that is tripping a GFCI, Don't assume its the outlets fault!
Ecotech battery backup failure: I purchased in August of 2019 and set it and forgot it. Please Please Please test the health of this battery! The process is simply unplugging the MP40 controller for power and unplugging the battery backup from power. The display on the controller should tell you how much power is left in the battery. I will add pictures of this and My battery rebuild in later posts.
Apex Failure: 100% user error! I had an Apex classic that was hardwired in to our server that was also on a battery backup as well as our router but then in 2020 I updated to the new stile apex to add some additional modules and we also around that time moved to cloud based server so no more hardwire anything. I copy/pasted most of the programing so before a (if Ebb86 off than on) statement would alert me of any power failure, it no longer worked. Never knew about heartbeat. Big oops on my part. There are so many resources on APEX but I was cocky as long term control freak. Lesson learned.
More to come:
4/21/23 19:22 GFCI tripped from faulty cooling fan. Ecotech Battery backup did not work. Apex did not notify me of power failure. Tank is at my office. Arrived at work 4/22/23 at 8:00 to almost total loss. Tank temp was 68˚. I removed all the bodies and only had anemones, Leather corals and sinularia left alive in the tank. I want to unpack this a bit.
The faulty fan was this one: cooling fan It was only 2 years old. This was mounted over my sump and was not wet but did have a bit of salt creep on it. Once removed from the tank I plugged it into a normal outlet and was shocked. Dumb move on my part. If you isolate something that is tripping a GFCI, Don't assume its the outlets fault!
Ecotech battery backup failure: I purchased in August of 2019 and set it and forgot it. Please Please Please test the health of this battery! The process is simply unplugging the MP40 controller for power and unplugging the battery backup from power. The display on the controller should tell you how much power is left in the battery. I will add pictures of this and My battery rebuild in later posts.
Apex Failure: 100% user error! I had an Apex classic that was hardwired in to our server that was also on a battery backup as well as our router but then in 2020 I updated to the new stile apex to add some additional modules and we also around that time moved to cloud based server so no more hardwire anything. I copy/pasted most of the programing so before a (if Ebb86 off than on) statement would alert me of any power failure, it no longer worked. Never knew about heartbeat. Big oops on my part. There are so many resources on APEX but I was cocky as long term control freak. Lesson learned.
More to come: