TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Most likely not a big deal, just a heads up, might be back up before I finish this post https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/apexfusion.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Already back ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Z Reef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 That’s funny, I literally just refreshed mine before coming to the site. with the crazy wind around here I used to yesterday to make sure my power was still on lol! I’m assuming if the power was out it would have some error, right? Never had an Apex through a storm yet 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Its darn impressive their uptime. First time I have ever had this happen! Was saving a virtual outlet and got an HTML screen of death! Is it crazy down there? Pretty calm still up here.. But the color of the sunlight is different with all the smoke.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdxmonkeyboy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 If you have apex heartbeat setup then apex will ping your cell phone to tell you that the power is out.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said: If you have apex heartbeat setup then apex will ping your cell phone to tell you that the power is out.. Yeah, that is a great feature, and good to remind people about, thanks. Especially with this wind going on. I totally missed that @Blue Z Reef was asking about that 🤣 I used to use reeftronics for that back in the day before APEX finally added this functionality. Did you ever check them out? They had a bunch of great apex utilities, the guy was doing it for free. Was awesome stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Z Reef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 7 minutes ago, TheClark said: Its darn impressive their uptime. First time I have ever had this happen! Was saving a virtual outlet and got an HTML screen of death! Is it crazy down there? Pretty calm still up here.. But the color of the sunlight is different with all the smoke.. Yeah the winds have been nuts, I have 2 coworkers that can’t work from home today because they lost power. Lots of tree limbs everywhere lol thanks for the heartbeat tip, enabled it now! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 10 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said: If you have apex heartbeat setup then apex will ping your cell phone to tell you that the power is out.. Keep in mind the Heartbeat alarms are not instantaneous. It will send the first alarm after the Apex has been unreachable for 30-40 minutes. As the outage continues, the heartbeat alarms will decrease in frequency, so it can go for hours before the next alarm is sent. This is why I have my Apex and my Internet router connected to small UPS batteries to keep them online for a period of time after a power outage, and the Apex itself sends me an alert immediately that the power is off. I outlined this in my Apex Power Monitoring tutorial: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdxmonkeyboy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Four words.... Propane fired standby generator. Power went out last night... I was still running my halides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 1 minute ago, SuncrestReef said: Keep in mind the Heartbeat alarms are not instantaneous. It will send the first alarm after the Apex has been unreachable for 30-40 minutes. As the outage continues, the heartbeat alarms will decrease in frequency, so it can go for hours before the next alarm is sent. This is why I have my Apex and my Internet router connected to small UPS batteries to keep them online for a period of time after a power outage, and the Apex itself sends me an alert that the power is off. I outlined this in my Apex Power Monitoring tutorial: That's a good reminder, they are slow for sure to send. I do the UPS too, it works great. For me my modem, router, switch and apex are far apart, so it requires two UPSs. One near my apex, one near the internet feed. Another cool thing you can do is hookup a 29 dollar wyze cam to the same power source as the APEX. If you cannot reach it, internet or power is down, or both. So many creative options these days. For bonus points, put it near your sump. I point one at my calcium reactor effluent just because the FMM is a little unreliable at CR flow speeds so it is nice to have eyes on it when on vacation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 1 minute ago, pdxmonkeyboy said: Four words.... Propane fired standby generator. Power went out last night... I was still running my halides. Freaking awesome! I gotta go fill with fuel, turn off all the breakers, switch the lockout, run the generator cord, start the generator, warm it up, and selectively turn on breakers to get going again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdxmonkeyboy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 They are cheaper than you think. My little honda 1,200? watt generator (which is great) was $1k. I got that standby generator for $1,800 and it is 8,500 watts. It turns on and off automatically by itself and even turns on once a week automatically to "exercise" itself for 5 minutes. I calculated I can run it for like 15 days with my 200 gallon propane tank. It runs everything in my aquarium, the circuit that the TV is on, and my refrigerators. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 1 minute ago, pdxmonkeyboy said: They are cheaper than you think. My little honda 1,200? watt generator (which is great) was $1k. I got that standby generator for $1,800 and it is 8,500 watts. It turns on and off automatically by itself and even turns on once a week automatically to "exercise" itself for 5 minutes. I calculated I can run it for like 15 days with my 200 gallon propane tank. It runs everything in my aquarium, the circuit that the TV is on, and my refrigerators. Sold! It officially made the enormous to-do list. Some day I am gonna make this happen, like the reef room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 27 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said: Four words.... Propane fired standby generator. Power went out last night... I was still running my halides. Yep. Mine is 22kW and runs on natural gas with auto transfer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Z Reef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 33 minutes ago, SuncrestReef said: Keep in mind the Heartbeat alarms are not instantaneous. It will send the first alarm after the Apex has been unreachable for 30-40 minutes. As the outage continues, the heartbeat alarms will decrease in frequency, so it can go for hours before the next alarm is sent. This is why I have my Apex and my Internet router connected to small UPS batteries to keep them online for a period of time after a power outage, and the Apex itself sends me an alert immediately that the power is off. I outlined this in my Apex Power Monitoring tutorial: I am ok with the 30-40 minute delay mainly because I have Comcast...self explanatory lol! It will drop connection randomly at least once a day but gets going again within a minute or so. I definitely plan do get a UPS setup, I’ve seen videos of people simply adding a deep cycle battery to one and they last super long. 12 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said: They are cheaper than you think. My little honda 1,200? watt generator (which is great) was $1k. I got that standby generator for $1,800 and it is 8,500 watts. It turns on and off automatically by itself and even turns on once a week automatically to "exercise" itself for 5 minutes. I calculated I can run it for like 15 days with my 200 gallon propane tank. It runs everything in my aquarium, the circuit that the TV is on, and my refrigerators. That is cheaper than I thought! I swear every time I ogled at them in the past the starting prices were like $4k and up. Was hoping battery tech would take a leap forward so the “power wall” style backups were more reasonable and more storage dense. I’m sure we will see some leaps in battery tech pretty soon though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 OK, I think the reason Fusion was down briefly is because Neptune just updated the Fusion back end software. It now supports Dark Mode. Reload your web browser page, or close and re-open your Fusion app. You can verify you're running the latest version by clicking the Release Note under your username menu. See: https://forum.neptunesystems.com/showthread.php?29953-APEX-Fusion-Update-September-8-2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Z Reef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 So just now I learn there is an App....man I feel dumb LOLOL 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 13 minutes ago, Blue Z Reef said: So just now I learn there is an App....man I feel dumb LOLOL Too many years way back when with the RKL, glad you are an APEX guy now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bevo5 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 I've been losing connection like crazy. It's not an issue with Fusion, it's my dumb internet. Wifi just keeps dropping down there. I'm going to run a cable from my modem straight to the socket and put an end to that nonsense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Z Reef Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 20 minutes ago, TheClark said: Too many years way back when with the RKL, glad you are an APEX guy now My expectations are so low from my years of RK use that I feel like my apex just keeps popping up with secret freebies all the time 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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