High Tide Aquatics

Connecting a VarioS2 to a Wave Engine LE

Alexander1312

Supporting Member
Not sure what I am doing wrong. The pump shows the error message. Can anyone see where the error is? Seemed so simple.

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That’s funny I got that error a lot when adding a 4th pump to my WE which also happened to be a varios2. I even thought it was a bad dongle at one point and ordered another. I never actually got it working, it was like certain combos of pumps in certain outlets worked and some didn’t.
 
That’s funny I got that error a lot when adding a 4th pump to my WE which also happened to be a varios2. I even thought it was a bad dongle at one point and ordered another. I never actually got it working, it was like certain combos of pumps in certain outlets worked and some didn’t.

Good to know - will need to bother the folks from CoralVue then.

Or the Hydros Facbook group.
 
Found the reason - the WaveEngine LE needs to be connected to a power supply and the power supply (plugged into the XP8) needs to be activated.

Also, it looks like the speed needs to be set at least <50% for the pump to start up.

With the speed at 60%, the power draw is below 10 watts, which is the lowest setting via the manual controller, according to their table.

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