DaveR11
Well-Known Member
Mornin reefers......The chicken is in the pot finally. Fired up the system last night, everything mechanical on the left fits nice and the right with all the electrical is almost fully complete. Need to spend about 30 minutes doing the wifi thing with the APEX and a little bit of wire organizing. I got lots of time to mount and mess with lights, as I cycle without them.
A few observations. There still is not much "how to literature" for the 350, but when I fired the return pump the water immediately began going down the overflow and let me tell you it looks like boiling water in the sump, so I was thinking ahhh *$^% this isn't good. Call me dumb, but there is a control valve on the intake and it was closed (not in instructions). Google is your friend.... Found a brief post in another forum where REDSEAKEV talks about this adjustment and not exceeding the tank return amount. Wasn't concerned with the return GPH, but he is spot on that you do the adjustment very slowly and give it time to adjust. I had to tweek it again this morning (closed more). When I mention tweek, I mean an 1/8 -1/4 inch turn. Basically you are a adjusting the overflow valve to match the amount of water being returned to the tank by the return. I KNOW! novel concept.
The Octopus was going bat guano crazy after about 1 hour and producing skim. All I will be running for the next month or so will be skimmer, heater, return pump and MP 40. Won't even bother testing for 3 weeks.
So Sully is back in the game, I'll take some tank and equipment shots in the next few days and post them for your drooling pleasure
thanks for looking
Great news you are up and running. The control valve sounds just like on the S series - I'm a newbie and it took me a while to stop over compensating if it was draining too quickly or going into the overflow as well but it works like a dream when it is dialled in and on mine is completely silent when working correctly.
ahead of me. Enjoy the pics .
and a lot of the LR I saw was loaded with aptasia. They charge a lot also because of their closed geographical location.
. Instructions are very simple and I am flustered so off to bed. Get up this morning and back to google 
. So know, it appears I need to go home, go to the connection manager and reset the lights to factory settings, each light, individually via USB. Then I can get the Apex to find my lights, guess I will see. 
