DIY Ecotech battery backup for $40!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2017
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Battery Box
Group 25 box
www.amazon.com/NOCO-HM300BKS-...
18 ah battery box
www.amazon.com/Attwood-Corpor...
or www.amazon.com/dp/B004171MOQ/
Float Charger
We can use float charger just like ecotech does, and these are about $12
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Connecting wires and plugs
Panel/Chassis Mount Female DC Power Connector 2.1mm X 5.5mm + Waterproof Cap
Panel/Chassis Mount Female DC Power Connector 1.35mm X 3.5mm + Waterproof Cap
5pair 12V 5.5x2.1mm Male + Female DC Power Socket Jack Connector Cable Plug Wire
Ecotech connecting wires with inline fuse
store2.ecotechmarine.com/coll...
or 12v to 36v booster
store2.ecotechmarine.com/coll...
Awesome walk through!!
Very informative, thanks for the upload!
Very clean job. Time to clean my diy tanks
if anyone watches this add a FUSE as close as possible to the + on the battery, the reason why it was sparking when testing is because it was been earthed out and wasn't fused, so it will burn your house down if not fused when it fails.
How many amps should it be?
I just want to thank you for making this and that it really is something that has made redundancy available to many of my clients at an affordable price and that it I have also recommended Tunze 6105.50 Safety Connector but this is also a fun project that most reeferes are capable of doing.
Awesome, thank you
Very cool, reccomend using 2 different color wires would be helpful for those doing it at home.
Super helpful. The deep cycle battery is enough to run my entire 20g nano for a week. Lol thanks!
Hello and thank you for uploading this great video of diy battery back up, it could not be any simpler system, quick question about female plug for Ecotech battery back up cable, What is the size is that female connector?
can you leave it charging all the time , and use it while being plugged? the box type one
If I didn't need the float charger could I just use the ecotech cable and wire it directly to the battery with terminals? Also how would I know the positive and negative wire on that cable once cut?
Super cool video, I am about to build one myself but was having trouble finding the terminal connecter size. Not used to wiring electronics. Thanks.
If you go to the build thread all the connectors are linked to. Good luck!
I went with the smaller lawnmower battery from Amazon. When I tested it after first installing, everything worked. During an outage last year, the Ecotech pumps would cycle white/red/green indicating a bad battery. Swapped the battery for a new one, tested good, same thing during an outage last night. What am I missing ? LED on the charger is almost always green
I don't know exactly what battery you used, but if it is indeed a lawnmower battery then that may be your problem- it may not be designed to be drawn down. you also might have a bad float charger- try checking the voltage on your battery. could also be wired backwards
Would this work for a 200 series Maxspect Gyre?
Yes it will, although you will have to use a different DC plug size, and I am not sure what it is. I usually take one of those all and one acdc adapters and try the different plug sizes to figure out the size. You will also need a Y adapter to plug both the power adapter for the pump and the battery backup into- the tunze ones might work if they are the right size for a off the shelf option. part 6105.50. I don't think icecap sells them separately, and even if they do, I think they might build the relay into the battery backup, and not in the y cable like tunze. I think ecotech builds it into the controller- basically you do not want 24v going to a 12v battery. If you want to truely diy it you need to replicate this photobucket.com/gallery/user/rosscopeco/media/cGF0aDovUDMwNDAyMDcuanBn/?ref= the parts are about $8
Question .for the Ups can't you just add a bigger batter or add another to double the vh and get the same out come if u plug the hole mp to the back up power side ??
do you mean plug the mp power adapter into the 120v plug on the UPS?
@@brinkrod I mean take out the standard battery out and put a bigger one in the ups
my question too. apparently in a bulkreefsupply video they tested a ups vs vortech. The power inverter wasted a TON of power and the bigger UPS system ran out before the smaller. I think in this video he bypasses it somehow when he talks about the 12v battery to a 12v pump, no intverter needed. Im just listening to the video. but that part is the key.
Ok so a few quick questions.
1. I plug the UPS in like normal after?
2. How do I regulate charging?
3. How do I power the wavemaker? Directly off the UPS instead of its power adapter?
1. Yes
2. The UPS does that for you
3. Use the wavemakers power supply- you only want the wavemaker powered through the battery if power fails- the wavemaker will automatically switch over
@@dbr_reef340 I see and thanks for the awesomely quick response. I'm not sure if the wire going into the wavemaker was spliced between the adapter and the UPS but I'm gonna rewatch the vid in case I missed it.
This worked for me for a few months, then stopped. I tried re-resoldering all connections, replaced fuses, and ensured battery is charged. Any advice? The charger has a green led and using a test light I have power all the way to the end where I plug into the ecotech controller
For anyone else having this issue it ended up being my battery. I am only getting ~8v testing directly from the battery terminals. I am able to get everything working if I operate while on a charger.
Can someone get us a count on how many times he says "uh"????
Ecotech battery wires are cheap, but the shipping is expensive. Can you recommend some alternative wires with the right size connectors on ebay?
They fixed that. The wires are now overpriced too :)
@@iloveveggies7634 Cheapest option was $12 shipping for a $5 wire
Can I plug the large battery into the ups?
not sure I understand your question, but yes you can
Do these units produce a true sine wave -- or is that necessary for most aquarium pumps?
the battery backup does not produce any ac power (so no sine wave at all). The ecotech pumps use DC, and their battery backup directly provides that DC power, albeit at a lower voltage than they typically run
Thanks for the prompt reply. I'm using inexpensive Jeabo pumps. I assume they use AC power. Would this be a problem using this set-up?
@@genemcloud4114 no you can't use this on jeabo pumps- the ecotech pumps have a build in switch that allows this. I have been meaning to get a video out for all other pumps but have not started it yet
DBR_Reef Thank you.
The m40 needs a 24v, how are you able to use One 12v car battery?
To run at full power it does need 24v, but in battery backup mode it runs at half power and is supplied with 12v
@@brinkrod I understand that but if it’s connected to the battery with or off grid, the power supplied is always 12v?
Do you still have the battery back up box?
already sent it off, sorry
"FOCUS YOU FAK" AVE fan confirmed! lol
i have an Apex with 2 WAVs how would i make that work for it? ive got a 400 watt inverter im trying to figure it out
This is something I've been meaning to tackle, but I don't have wave pumps to test it on. I think it would be easy if you run a 1 link, much harder if you run them through a eb832. I might try to find someone local who wants to give it a try so I have some to look at.
my thoughts .. (i have a 1 link with a power supply) get a 12 volt power supply for the Apex. and plug in the Apex and the 1 link and the internet to the 400 watt inverter. and program the wavs set on
but ??? is the 1 link only powered by inverter/battery..
I dont think you need the 12v apex plug- if you power the 1 link it should power the apex via aquabus. This is what neptune will tell you to do. The down side of this is you loose a lot of efficiency. Lets say that both the inverter in your UPS and the ac to dc adapter are 80% efficient (one or both are probably less efficient, but well give them the benefit of the doubt). That means you get 64% of the run time converting to ac and back to dc as you would if you ran the wav pumps strait off DC.
i need the 12 volt power pluged in to the apex to power it. it is powered by the ebs but if the power goes out the ebs have no power.
"down below in the doobelydoo" you an AVE fan?
I think Eco Tech must have seen your video and decided to get some profit out of people building their own battery backups because they have jacked the cable price and shipping to $5 ea and $12 shipping.
Trying to figure out how to pm you.
go to the build thread on reef2reef and pm me from there- I think there is a way to do it on youtube, but I don't know how
You might mention in the title that it's for fish tanks?