Fish Monitoring

We decided to freshen up Chris's fish tank.  The first challenge was to attach the light properly.  Here Chris uses a screw gun to screw the uprights to the tank stand.

 Feeding the wires that suspend the light through the bracket.

The finished light and stand can be seen below.  You may wonder why the brackets are so high  They are 1800mm high actually.  The reason is so we do not lean forward and skewer our eyes.The finished light.

We also decided it would be interesting to monitor the tank and display the monitoring data on a web page.  We are testing a Syndetic conductivity monitoring system.  The box is visible at the top right of the picture.

There is a toroidal conductivity probe in the tank.  This measures conductivity and temperature.  At preprogrammed intervals (Normaly 15minutes), the controller uses a Next-G modem to connect to the internet and send the data to a server at Syndetic.

 The user then logs ontoo a web page to view the stats.

To see this live go to
http://60.241.99.38/
Select "Syndetic Remote Monitoring"
Then use
Username = demo
Password = demo
All lower case
Choose Prototype Conductivity Monitoring System.
Enjoy the fish.

And of course we are so green as to run the whole thing off the sun. (See below)