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Old 11-10-2006, 07:20 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by aqua doctor View Post
NICE WORK, thank you for sharing!

I was wondering if you keep your wavemaker on 24/7 or have it on occassionally?

You talked about timers not being fast enough to control the pump; some take a few seconds.

My question is; in your examples of use it looked to be a very fast wave/current at a very fast rate of repetition. can you slow down the rate to create more of a slow surge? could this be done with slower timers?
Or does the configuration of the box/pump dictate the rate of waves?

I also noticed at your overflow box to the sump, water surging in at different rates in conjunction to the "wave". Is there any concern here to look out for?
Its turned on all the time. It works by timing the on/off cycle of the pump in sync with the wave resonance. Which normally range from 1-2secs in a typical aquarium.

The overflow box does affect the overall wave height but should not be a hinderance once its tuned correctly.
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