NEW: aquaero 5 series

[muskel]

Will there be a new edition of Aquasuite ? I have the Aquastream Ultra pump.

[gatecrasherlok]

Heya shoggy

Great products you guys are rolling out but i do have a complaint to make. This being my pre-order for a aquaro XT controller still no where to be seen. I have had my pre-order pushed back for a third time and it is getting really annoying having to wait without a close confirmation date.

[barfastic]

How do you control the pwm fan channel 4?

I have 2 swiftech 35X hooked up to it using a pwm y cable, and the readings are going crazy.... I cant seem to figure out how to regulate the pump speed. Any tips?

[xivlia]

nice!

[xivlia]

nice!!

[airs]

How do you control the pwm fan channel 4?

I have 2 swiftech 35X hooked up to it using a pwm y cable, and the readings are going crazy.... I cant seem to figure out how to regulate the pump speed. Any tips?

I'm interested in this as I'll be hooking up my MCP35x2 to my Aquaero 5 soon...

[Phatboy69]

Yes, that LED was used for the development process as feedback for some CPU relevant stuff. It has no real function now. As long as it blinks in some way everything is fine

New BETA 16 is online!

It contains some small bug fixes for the software. No new firmware or functions.

Not sure if media remote was working in B15 for me because I skipped it to go to B16, but media remote keys not working in B16 for me.

[Shoggy]

Will there be a new edition of Aquasuite ? I have the Aquastream Ultra pump.

The current version also supports the aquastream XT. To get all available features you will still have to use the older aquasuite 4.72 since we decided to left out some rarely used features to improve the general overview by focusing on the important settings.

Heya shoggy

Great products you guys are rolling out but i do have a complaint to make. This being my pre-order for a aquaro XT controller still no where to be seen. I have had my pre-order pushed back for a third time and it is getting really annoying having to wait without a close confirmation date.

Unfortunately we had a lot of problems with the production of the XT variant in the last couple of weeks so we had many delays and were only able to dispatch small amounts so far. I hope the main problems are solved now so the production should go fast within the next two weeks.

How do you control the pwm fan channel 4?

I have 2 swiftech 35X hooked up to it using a pwm y cable, and the readings are going crazy.... I cant seem to figure out how to regulate the pump speed. Any tips?

Normally the PWM signal is only used as a control signal so the pump knows how fast it should run. By connecting it with a y-adapter to both pumps it should work without any problems. It might be possible that your pumps use a different range for the frequency. Normally PWM within the PC is standardized but we already saw pumps and fans which work in another range and can not be controlled with the aquaero or only within a limited range.

Not sure if media remote was working in B15 for me because I skipped it to go to B16, but media remote keys not working in B16 for me.

The media keys are working again in version 16. In a previous version they were disabled because of a mistake.

[cx-ray]

How do you control the pwm fan channel 4?

I have 2 swiftech 35X hooked up to it using a pwm y cable, and the readings are going crazy.... I cant seem to figure out how to regulate the pump speed. Any tips?

I only can speak on how I set my self-made wire up. I connected the AE5 PWM signal to both pumps with one pump RPM signal going to Ch3 and the other to Ch4. Power and ground aren't connected.

In Aquasuite set Fan 4 to PWM controlled. Regulate speed with the Maximum fan power slider. Fan 3 which monitors the other pump can be left alone. It doesn't do anything aside from show the RPM signal.

Once setup, you can link Ch4 to a temp sensor to automatically regulate the pumps. You can also individually link them to the Fail safe. Set it to trigger an alarm or shut the system down when a pump fails.

Viewing screen shot will make things more clear:
http://i45.tinypic.com/2z50z6w.jpg

[cx-ray]

Here's a pic of the pumps (Fan 3 & 4) running at ~ 2000 rpm. In the Controller section of Aquasuite I linked them to a water temp sensor. Using the Two point controller option I've set the pumps to Switch on at 32c and off at 30c. Then in the Fans section I've set the PWM minimum power to 36% and max to 100%. This will allow the pumps to maintain a minimum speed of ~2000 rpm. When the water temp reaches 32c the pumps will switch to full power.

http://i48.tinypic.com/dqj694.png

The Two point controller in my opinion is more suitable for pump control over the Curve controller. This way you won't hear constant pitch changes when the pump rpm changes.

[Avathar77]

aquasuite 2012 - Version 1 Release

More details HERE

[kroks]

how is that not a beta? i can't even update the firmware.. stuck at 90%

[D749]

how is that not a beta? i can't even update the firmware.. stuck at 90%

Exactly. I'll let other people play with it first.

[cx-ray]

Stay away from it.

To complete the FW update, shut down your computer and switch off the PSU. Wait until all lights on the mobo/AE5 are off. After you power on again the FW will be flashed.

Aquasuite RC-1 has serious bugs. Use Synchronize log data only once and you'll have to re-install Aquasuite. Otherwise it will start up and crash instantly. Same thing happens when you go into the Overview page preferences (the page that displays all the monitored devices that you set up).

As an insult to injury the new Aquasuite doesn't work with the previous FW...don't risk flashing back though, unless they say it's ok.

(this was tested on W7-64)

BTW, the new software also requires you to redo all your overview pages and setup. It won't allow you to import any settings from the previous version.

[cx-ray]

They updated the software. The crash related to the overview page has been fixed.

[D749]

There's no technical reason why they can't support the importing of prior settings. Perhaps it's a time and manpower issue.

[Shoggy]

There is a very simple reason: the way how the profiles are stored now is very different to the previous BETA version.

[Church]

Shoggy: problem being those previous betas were only versions available for long time since initial release of product HW, thus users having somewhat higher expectations despite their labeling as alpha/beta/whatever. If it doesn't take unreasonable amount of coding manpower, imho it's worth to hack together something to ease conversion of old stuff to enhance user experience.

[santiagodraco]

Stay away from it.

To complete the FW update, shut down your computer and switch off the PSU. Wait until all lights on the mobo/AE5 are off. After you power on again the FW will be flashed.

Aquasuite RC-1 has serious bugs. Use Synchronize log data only once and you'll have to re-install Aquasuite. Otherwise it will start up and crash instantly. Same thing happens when you go into the Overview page preferences (the page that displays all the monitored devices that you set up).

As an insult to injury the new Aquasuite doesn't work with the previous FW...don't risk flashing back though, unless they say it's ok.

(this was tested on W7-64)

BTW, the new software also requires you to redo all your overview pages and setup. It won't allow you to import any settings from the previous version.

So you are saying, if I understand correctly, that if you are running say Beta 16, you will NOT be able to keep your current configuration and will have to start over from scratch? That's completely unacceptable.

[santiagodraco]

There is a very simple reason: the way how the profiles are stored now is very different to the previous BETA version.

That's not a valid excuse in this case as Church has pointed out.

[frank anderson]

finally got my overview page up to the way it use to be, it only took a hour or so, not sure what all the complaints are about.. sure import would have been easier, but it's a "do and forget" process and having to manually redo the overview page is far and in between, I remember doing it maybe twice since I had this unit.

The new added bells and whistles are nice, didn't have a problem with the upgrade either.. I never had a problem upgrading the firmware, been using it since Beta 9, so that's 7 releases before RC1, never ran into a problem.. Are you guys uninstalling the old version or you are just installing the new one on top of the old installation? I always uninstall old before installing the new..

Nice upgrade never the less and it has gotten a lot better, I recall Beta 9 was kinda "clunky"... Can't wait for " network remote control" feature to be implemented..

[cx-ray]

I never had a problem upgrading the firmware, been using it since Beta 9, so that's 7 releases before RC1, never ran into a problem.. Are you guys uninstalling the old version or you are just installing the new one on top of the old installation? I always uninstall old before installing the new.

They updated the final version several times after its initial release. It appears to be working properly for me now as well.

[aRkangeL]

Someone have problems with the 5 XT mine by time to time, the enter/ok button seems to be always pressed, the device its allways doing that sound, like i was pressing some button but i dont!

[JanPetterMG]

I got that issue for about 4 hours ago, but that was first time ever. Have used AE5XT for a couple of months now...
Still running beta (firmware 1025).

I don't think firmware/bugs was causing the issue for me this time, because I have used this firmware for a long time already. (but I'm not 100% sure)

[aRkangeL]

I dont know, but this bug still going on, and on... and make me sad

I have changed the firmware from 1025 to 1026 and still the same!