so i show up to work today and my boss says here put this new pump on one of our 180 reef tanks, being a fairly experienced reefer said sure no problem. It was a tunze wave box, never working with one of them i figured it couldnt be that hard to figure that out so i said challenge accepted.....well that is where i went wrong, i open the box and other than the fact that there are like 9000 pieces/wires in the box(insert its over 9000 jokes here for the few of you that would get that reference) i think i would prefer an ikea special set of directions compared to this manual, its in like 6 languages and they are not grouped together. still i was slightly optimistic, i plugged the outlet cord into the power supply ballast and the photo cell into the controller NOW HERE IS WHERE I GET CONFUSED: 1. there are two ports to plug the actual pump for the wave box into, which do i use? 2. there are several different sized voltage chips that it says to plug into the bottom, the bottom of what there is no place for them to go? and 3. which i think is the most important of all, there is no place to plug the power supply into the actual pump or the controller!!! being confused i read the directions several times, googled around for at least a half hour even trying to find a video n youtube, asked every and any reef customer that walked into the store (even some of you on here) if they have seen or used a wave box only to get replies of how their tunze ato was a pain in the @$$ to install and then I even called in Jared (lfsmarineguy) for some backup to find out he had never used one before either which shocked me. well what i guess im saying is what in the world could i be missing, and if the previous questions can be answered how do i go about setting it?
tunze wavebox wtf
- Thread starter Master Shake
- Start date
- Location
- astoria,new york
You should have a power supply looks like a black puck and you should have a transformer silver box and also a controller ,do you have any of these items ?
Which tunze wave box is it?
Which tunze wave box is it?
pnly black pucks were the magnets, the transformer was black and rectangle not silver, nothing was silver, and it had the controller, not sure which model it was but the box itself was about 10 inches tall, 3-4 inches wide and about 5-6 inched deep the box just said tunze all over it no model number nothing
http://www.aquacave.com/Tunze-Comline-Wave-Box-6208000-P3751.aspx
looked like this one
looked like this one
- Location
- astoria,new york
Okay I guess they changed things a bit since I had them..
The controller with the two plugs should go into the rectangular box
And you should have a power supply its usually a bit heavy at the end
The controller with the two plugs should go into the rectangular box
And you should have a power supply its usually a bit heavy at the end
- Location
- astoria,new york
The rectangular box should also have a port for the power supply to go into
And some where on that box there also should be a tiny hole where you need to use a tiny flat head screw drive to adjust the power of flow also
And some where on that box there also should be a tiny hole where you need to use a tiny flat head screw drive to adjust the power of flow also
- Location
- astoria,new york
Power supply if I remember should also go into the rectangular box
i think we may be talking of 2 different things, there is one wire which has the plug that will go into the wall, the other end of that goes to the ballast/power supply (or at least thats what i call it) which is the rectangular box and yes a bit heavy compared to the rest of the unit. from that box comes a wire that has a small circular plug which has no where to go, i wish i took pics before i left work... saying that, the controller for the unit which the pumps go, where the dials are, and the photo receptor cell go has nothing to recieve the power
nope has a controller with dials and all, the one in the aquacave link is the one i have
- Location
- astoria,new york
There should be another box where the controller and power supply go to
- Location
- East Northport 11731
Cord coming off the right goes to the controller. Cord on the bottom left goes into your power supply. Cord coming off the top right goes to the pump.
Power fuses go into the bottom of the power supply box. They light up red when they have power to them.
Power fuses go into the bottom of the power supply box. They light up red when they have power to them.
- Location
- astoria,new york
No you should not have to buy anything else ..
Everything should of been included..
Wish you had pics
Everything should of been included..
Wish you had pics
it does not have any of that
- Location
- bayonne / nj
please post pictures of the 9000 pieces i think you are over estimating this is as simple as it gets there is also a english version of the instructions takes 15 min to get up and running
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