Why your luminaire should speak your controller’s language
Aquarium controller and LED luminaire as one system Most LED luminaires and aquarium controllers cannot communicate with each other at all. Where a connection exists, it is usually an analog, wired interface that does little more than dim one or a few channels. The luminaire runs on its own schedule, the controller runs the rest of the aquarium, and the two know nothing about each other. How it works Digital and wireless. ProfiLux and Mitras LX8 take a different approach. The connection between them is digital and wireless. The ProfiLux is fitted with the PLM-PWC expansion card, the Mitras LX8 is set to slave mode, and from then on the controller sends the complete lighting program, all simulations and its own status to the luminaire. Every luminaire in the aquarium receives the same data at the same time. What this means in practice Everything configured in one device Water parameters,…