Apex salinity meter used to trigger ATO?

[fifthtoe]

I am about to get my tank soon and was thinking about different ATO ideas. Is it possible to use the apex salinity readings to trigger a pump to dispense fresh water for ATO? If possible, is it even a good idea? If not, what are some better methods? I'm just worried if I go with a float valve that something could go wrong and I dump gallons of fresh water into the system. Thanks for everyone's input!

 

[Mark Bianco]

Sure you could do that is it a good idea not in my opinion. Being an apex owner there are several thing you can do the first is redundant float switches. The next is to setup your programming with failsafes like max time the pump can run, another is use a small enough for a couple of days of water container.

Mark

 

[kurt_n]

Do some research on the salinity monitor (not just Apex, but anybody's) and I think you'll convince yourself it's not a good idea. They seem to be a bit problematic and testy.

 

[Mel 2038]

You may want to use salinity readings as a fail-safe. For example, to shut ato off if salinity gets to low, but I wouldn't use it as main control for the ato.

 

[dotcommer]

I heard the salinity probes can be problematic. But Just heard from 2 different people, but haven't researched it myself.

 

[fifthtoe]

Thanks for the responses. I'm still in research mode and just trying to learn everything. I was in the hobby for many years about 15 years ago. I failed miserably at it though.