Koolance TMS-200 testing results / review

[Brodholm]

And you should edit your post saying the card is not OS independant, that information is incorrect as well...the card remebers its settings outside the OS, even after being powered down, and it also has OS indpendant thermal shutdown. This would not be possible if it was software dependant.

It just needs some updates I beleive.

The koolance guys are saying there is supposed to be a software update this week, so before I pester them I will wait and see what happens.

Ill let you guys know what I find out as soon as the update is released.

Thats good. Let us know what changes they make and how it works. If the software fixes the stuff you mentioned there is nothing thats hindering me from getting this unit over the aquaero. Its just the display.

Can you set pump-speeds after water temp?

I don't think you can say that the TMS is OS independent. Its just parcally independent. I.e It isn't independent. You need to OS to get it to work. Even after it have been configured. I will change that IF the new update fixes that (fans, and flow). And it already have thermal shutdown out of the OS. But NOW its not OS dependant. And not failsafe.

If the computer hangs and the pump fails, then the water will be still in the loop and the temperature sensors will just measure the heat of the water thats not moving. And that will not gain temps just because the cpu is burning up because the water sits still in the housing. So thermal shutdown is only that good. Thermal info is "just" useful for setting pump/fan speeds. If you are not using a sensor from aquacomputer with the hole in it. You can fasten that on a block. And as the block heats up the sensor will heat up to.