[tbittner]

Nah, they sell kits already put together, including the software to run it. It's not the best software but it certainly would do anything you would care to do with it.

I enjoy doing this type of stuff so I bought the pieces that I needed and I'm putting it all together myself. I got one of the pumps for the predator tank hooked into it today and I got the blue moonlight hooked in and working. I wasted most of the afternoon wiring in the pump though. I used one of those heavy duty extension cords and it has a little built into in the end which comes on when power is present. Well, no matter what, I couldn't make that light go out. Scratched my head for quite a while on this one. Finally I plugged a light into the cord and run my program. Low and behold, the light does come on and go off.

I trim the insulation on the extension cord in order to get to the black wire. I cut it in half and strip the ends. These ends go into the relay so I can control the power flow in the cord. The white and green wires are untouched and continue on from end to end. Apparently, the white wire carries just enough voltage to light that stupid light in the end of the cord. :smck:

It takes the black wire to be connected to the power source in order to carry enough voltage to run anything though. That wire is cut or connected via the relay depending on what my program says to do.