AI Wireless Module (AWM) - Setup Guide
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Probability of Lightning (%) : a metric which sets the frequency of a lightning strike during cloud cover. 0%
means no lightning will occur and a 100% value means that lightning will occur almost continuously.
Lightning Intensity (%): the lightning white light intensity during a lightning strike. It can be set between 0
and 100%.
Once you’ve defined your weather profile, you can incorporate it a variety of ways. The simplest is to just set
some times during the day you want weather. For example to run the weather profile from 11 – 12pm and
from 5pm – 5:30pm:
Fallback OFF
Set OFF
If Time 08:00 to 10:00 Then RampUp
If Time 10:00 to 16:00 Then Day
If Time 16:00 to 18:00 Then RampDn
If Time 11:00 to 12:00 Then weather
If Time 17:00 to 17:30 Then weather
Coral Acclimation
Your Aquacontroller can help you with the very important process of acclimating your corals to your new
lighting system. Frequently corals will brown or bleach if there’s a dramatic change in lighting. Corals can
respond to brighter light but it takes them time to adjust. Nothing good ever happens quickly in a reef.
Using a Weather profile to help acclimate:
Create a weather type profile, giving it a name ‘acclimate’. Ignore the lightning parameters – we want to use
just the cloud cover:
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Light Maximum – 60
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Cloudy Intensity – 30
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Cloud duration – 240
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Cloudy time – 60
Use the acclimate profile as your daytime profile. You can continue to use your sunrise rampup and sunset
rampdown profiles. Each week reduce the Cloudy Time percentage by 15% - 20%. If your corals respond well,
after 3 weeks you can stop using the acclimate profile and use a normal daytime profile.
