Koolance TMS-200 testing results / review

[kimoyo]

Dsumanik -

Firstly, I really appreciated your review. It did really help a lot! The only reason why this flow fail-safe is an issue is because Brodholm was geeked about buying a TMS-200, brought up the issue and was kinda misled a bit. Someone who actually brought the TMS-200 then posted it didn't work. At least that was my take on it, but anyone can go back and read the threads he posted on the controllers. And I know it seemed like he could have been attacking you a bit especially considering the forum atmosphere but if you read he's previous threads you will really see he's just asking a lot of questions.

As far as the aquaero goes, its either they don't care to update the english speaking part of their site or there's a little designed ambiguity there. I actually read threads on their forum and the manuals but the manuals are outdated also.

Just to be clear, a laing pump can not be controlled by temperature in the aquacomputer system, which is what Brodholm was asking you about the TMS-200. So as temp goes up, its not possible to increase a d5's rpms thru the aquaero, unless they changed something in the last few years. You can take a look here. The failsafes still work, the aquaero can tell if the d5 stopped pumping in order shutdown the computer and can still monitor temperatures. The poweradjust can still vary the voltage to change the rpms of the pump, its just that the aquaero (which reads the temperatures) can't communicate with the poweradjust to tell it to vary the voltage of the laing pump. From what I can gather on their forums, they just don't want to integrate the aquaero with the poweradjust because the laing pumps aren't their pumps. They feel the aquastream meets their "standards" and thats what they will support.

I do like the idea that the pumps power isn't going directly thru the controller, but I'm still trying to decide what pump to get. A d5 would be twice a strong as an eheim, but the eheims are extremely reliable (I use them in my other hobby) and quiet. I'm still not sure how quiet a d5 is, I hear that some people can hear a certain tone and I'm pretty sure I will be able to hear it also if that's true.