Stoneyscoral
01-11-2008, 07:34 PM
Hello Boston Reefers!
If you are in the market for a high quality controller for your aquarium here is the unit for you.
Highly expandable and packed with features the Profilux aquarium controller will handle it all for you and no need for writing your own little subroutines.
The software is great, just plug your controller into your pc or laptop and you can change all of your settings in an easy & intuitive software package. Control your lighting, PH, Temp, Heaters, dosing pumps, Breeze fans, a chiller, ect, ect, ect with this product. Monitor your PH, Temp, Salinity, ORP, Humidity in the fishroom and more. If you go for the Wireless with LAN expansion you won't even have to plug it in. Change any of your settings from work via your PC with this controller!!
Customer service is excellent via an 800 number or a forum on RC where the Profilux experts are always on duty.
Here is a good intro to the Profilux controller put together by Michael(the GHL Profilux distributer).
ProfiLux Aquarium Controller, whats it all about?
Lots of members have emailed and called us asking about the GHL ProfiLux aquarium computer system and what it can actually do for them and their aquarium. So we thought it was about time we posted a complete product review so you can have a great insight into this amazing aquarium control system.
We have included many software screen shots, some of these shots are of older software versions, as the software is constantly being added to virtually weekly, adding to further functionality at a massive pace way beyond probably anything else similar on the market.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/ProfiLuxII_368x160.gif
As the ProfiLux system is quite in depth I apologize now for the length of the thread.
Firstly who is GHL?
GHL is a German company who specialize in environmental computer control systems, one being of course the ProfiLux. All its equipment is produced and designed in house in Germany.
In 2005 the GHL ProfiLux won the innovation award in Germany for technical achievement and product invention.
Ok so enough about the company and more about the product itself.
The ProfiLux Plus II in its raw form is a computer controlled aquatic controller that is designed without any further expansion to control pH and temperature and timing functions, but has the built in ability to control your whole tanks environment simply and reliably by either direct menu driven input of settings or as 99% of users do, connect the unit via either RS232 or USB to their computers to access a much wider range of features. In its advanced and upgraded form you can even connect via LAN or WLAN and access your whole system via the internet anywhere in the world and view and change your tank parameters. But for now lets keep things simple!
So you have a ProfiLux what can i do with it?
Well lets look at the computer interface. here is a screen shot.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/GHL1.jpg
This first shot shows your opening screen, here you can enter your global position which will become useful later if you choose to use the moon phase to full effect. But more importantly look to the left and you will see the menus where you can view and change parameters.
Ok moving on to inside the software and some of the functions you can do, here is another screen shot below.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/GHL2.jpg
Here you have the pH screen. From here you can control all your pH requirements whether you want to control a calcium reactor or manage your aquariums parameters or both. As you can see it is controllable to 0.01 point and you can also have nocturnal differences set.
The screen shot shows the ProfiLux in its raw form, but by adding further expansions, other parameter controls become available to you such as ORP (Redox) and Salinity measured in Specific gravity. You can also expand to Oxygen and humidity also. Furthermore you are not restricted to lets say one pH paremeter, by adding further expansion you can have 2 pH controls totally independant, one for the tank and one for your calcium reactor. Same goes for temperature control and other paremeters. This is just a snap shot example of the expandability
So the next screen shot shows the temperature screen.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/GHL3.jpg
Just as with the pH you can control the temperature anyway you like, you can have a fan or chiller and your heater plugged into the plug bar and then from this screen set how you want the controller to control your temperature to an accuracy you really won't find anywhere else, so no more light heating spikes or over heating thermostats, etc.
We have new stock arriving next week and supply is limited.
Thanks to all of the Boston Reefers who have given us a try so far!
Find us at www.cherrycorals.com
If you are in the market for a high quality controller for your aquarium here is the unit for you.
Highly expandable and packed with features the Profilux aquarium controller will handle it all for you and no need for writing your own little subroutines.
The software is great, just plug your controller into your pc or laptop and you can change all of your settings in an easy & intuitive software package. Control your lighting, PH, Temp, Heaters, dosing pumps, Breeze fans, a chiller, ect, ect, ect with this product. Monitor your PH, Temp, Salinity, ORP, Humidity in the fishroom and more. If you go for the Wireless with LAN expansion you won't even have to plug it in. Change any of your settings from work via your PC with this controller!!
Customer service is excellent via an 800 number or a forum on RC where the Profilux experts are always on duty.
Here is a good intro to the Profilux controller put together by Michael(the GHL Profilux distributer).
ProfiLux Aquarium Controller, whats it all about?
Lots of members have emailed and called us asking about the GHL ProfiLux aquarium computer system and what it can actually do for them and their aquarium. So we thought it was about time we posted a complete product review so you can have a great insight into this amazing aquarium control system.
We have included many software screen shots, some of these shots are of older software versions, as the software is constantly being added to virtually weekly, adding to further functionality at a massive pace way beyond probably anything else similar on the market.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/ProfiLuxII_368x160.gif
As the ProfiLux system is quite in depth I apologize now for the length of the thread.
Firstly who is GHL?
GHL is a German company who specialize in environmental computer control systems, one being of course the ProfiLux. All its equipment is produced and designed in house in Germany.
In 2005 the GHL ProfiLux won the innovation award in Germany for technical achievement and product invention.
Ok so enough about the company and more about the product itself.
The ProfiLux Plus II in its raw form is a computer controlled aquatic controller that is designed without any further expansion to control pH and temperature and timing functions, but has the built in ability to control your whole tanks environment simply and reliably by either direct menu driven input of settings or as 99% of users do, connect the unit via either RS232 or USB to their computers to access a much wider range of features. In its advanced and upgraded form you can even connect via LAN or WLAN and access your whole system via the internet anywhere in the world and view and change your tank parameters. But for now lets keep things simple!
So you have a ProfiLux what can i do with it?
Well lets look at the computer interface. here is a screen shot.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/GHL1.jpg
This first shot shows your opening screen, here you can enter your global position which will become useful later if you choose to use the moon phase to full effect. But more importantly look to the left and you will see the menus where you can view and change parameters.
Ok moving on to inside the software and some of the functions you can do, here is another screen shot below.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/GHL2.jpg
Here you have the pH screen. From here you can control all your pH requirements whether you want to control a calcium reactor or manage your aquariums parameters or both. As you can see it is controllable to 0.01 point and you can also have nocturnal differences set.
The screen shot shows the ProfiLux in its raw form, but by adding further expansions, other parameter controls become available to you such as ORP (Redox) and Salinity measured in Specific gravity. You can also expand to Oxygen and humidity also. Furthermore you are not restricted to lets say one pH paremeter, by adding further expansion you can have 2 pH controls totally independant, one for the tank and one for your calcium reactor. Same goes for temperature control and other paremeters. This is just a snap shot example of the expandability
So the next screen shot shows the temperature screen.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/Stoneyscoral/GHL3.jpg
Just as with the pH you can control the temperature anyway you like, you can have a fan or chiller and your heater plugged into the plug bar and then from this screen set how you want the controller to control your temperature to an accuracy you really won't find anywhere else, so no more light heating spikes or over heating thermostats, etc.
We have new stock arriving next week and supply is limited.
Thanks to all of the Boston Reefers who have given us a try so far!
Find us at www.cherrycorals.com