A quick question on simu's

[bbart12]

I was just wondering if it was a good idea to split two simu's and run them off of the same 10v bus. thanks in advance

[bbart12]

I have found the answer with this funny thing called search thanks for looking

[BigAl07]

Could you provide a link to what you found? There are a LOT of hits when I use the search most of which I've already read through.

[bbart12]

I found it on reef central one of the support forums. It is privacy easier for me to tell you what I found out.

You can in fact spilt a 10v bus into 2 simus. Ill tell you how I did it and you are welcome to replicate it if you want.

The 10v bus is based on the same jack as a telephone. The issue is that land lines have moved away from the six conductor line of old to a four conductor line. So you need to find a line splitter that splits all six lines. This is nothing fancy I actualy found mine a wal-mart for about 7 bucks. Once again don't wast your money on a four conductor splitter (I did without thinking). The splitter that I did find had three female connectors so I needed a short length of phone line to connect it to my pIII. We it turns out that six conductor phone line has become just as hard to find as a six conductor splitter (i could not find one of any length let alone the relatively small one I needed). So I simply took a small length of cat5 and cut two of the conductors short and used a crimped tool to attach the phone line tips (rj-14???). You can find lots of diys on line. All in all this probably cost me less than the purchased solution (I already had all the tools and stuff)

[bbart12]

Hope this helps

[Matthias]

why don't just buy simply our splitter? comes with cable (1m ... 10m)

[xiaan]

How many simu sticks can you run off of one 1-10V port?

[Blahenazo]

http://www.aquariumcomputer.com/System__E_/Products/Illumination_technics/LED_lamps/led_lamps.html

bottom of the page:
If you want to connect more than 2 LED-lamps to your ProfiLux (in the cased of a ProfiLux II Light: more than 1 LED-lamp) than you have to use our active splitter ActiveL-Splitter.

[BigAl07]

http://www.aquariumcomputer.com/System__E_/Products/Illumination_technics/LED_lamps/led_lamps.html

bottom of the page:
If you want to connect more than 2 LED-lamps to your ProfiLux (in the cased of a ProfiLux II Light: more than 1 LED-lamp) than you have to use our active splitter ActiveL-Splitter.

I might be wrong (I tried to post this earlier and it just vanished LOL) but I was under the impression you could run 2 on L1/L2 and 2 on L3L4 (2 splitters required... 1 per line).

[Blahenazo]

agreed,

the sentence can be interpreted differently , but I understand the sentence as 2 simu's on 1 L poort connector , depending on the Px , PL modules , ex box you can more simu's can be connected offcourse , but maybe an active splitter is a better choice then :)