Hello All,
My name is Ricky. I have been keeping freshwater tanks for about 2 decades, currently have a 135G Oscar tank. I've always used inkbird thermostats, which are absolutely horrible as far as accuracy goes. I had to calibrate them weekly. FINALLY I found Neptune Apex, which I literally LOVE...but I'm trying to program something and that is my downfall. No matter how many times IO've read it, I cannot figure out how to run a day/night cycle for my heaters. I am now using the Apex Jr. as my thermostat and to run my lights.
I am running 3 heaters currently, because I was dealing with ICH and couldn't get my 135G up to 86 degrees with only 2 heaters, but will be running 2 heaters moving forward. HEATER4 will be turned off. So HEATER1 is on output 1 and HEATER3 is on output 3. I made 2 virtual terminals (I think I did that properly). [SEE ATTACHED SUMMERY IF REQUIRED. Ignore the values as I just had to put somehting for the meantime] What I'm trying to achieve is this:
When my lights are ON, I want the temp to be between 79.5 degrees and 80.0 degrees with the fallback set to OFF.
When the lights are OFF, I want the temp to be between 77.5 degrees and 78.0 degrees with the fallback set to OFF.
Can someone PLEASE help me by writing this code so I can simply cut and paste it?
Secondly...where do I paste it? Do I just choose ADVANCED and then copy the same code into the 2 heaters and also the 2 virtual outlets - or do I need to paste different code into each?
Thanks so much. I really REALLY appreciate this help!
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