Friendly PSA to check your optical sensors

[Reefing102]

Don’t forget to clean the ATO optical sensor. Apparently I’ve been slacking in this department. It got algae covered on my wife’s 32 gallon BioCube. Thankfully the ATO only dumped about 4 gallons of water before it ran dry but still tanked the salinity to 1.019 and have a nice soggy floor to deal with.

Honestly wouldn’t have noticed if the green star polyps hadn’t closed up. Which led me to look closer and I didn’t see any LED shimmer which wasn’t normal. So I looked at the surface and there was hardly movement and my screen top was partially submerged. And then my feet found the wet floor. I need to check the fail safe sensor too as that didn’t go off so I may need to reinstall it.

All in all, it’s a wonderful day to clean optical sensors. You may want to check yours too. That is all.

 

[griss]

As you already know, bring that salinity up slowly.

 

[Reefing102]

As you already know, bring that salinity up slowly.

Yep. The water level is still high, so I’m going to let it evaporate out. Then I have saltwater in the ATO chamber currently.

 

[Misled]

Glad you caught it.

 

[jason2459]

But I thought optical sensors were flawless...j/k

Sorry to hear about the minor flood but luckily it was minor. It's amazing though how much water spreads even just a little seems like a ton once on the ground.

I've always been paranoid about my ATO. I have 3 float switches, two pressure switches, and a float valve protecting mine. And I don't let it run for more then a few seconds every 10 minutes.

 

[Reefing102]

But I thought optical sensors were flawless...j/k

Sorry to hear about the minor flood but luckily it was minor. It's amazing though how much water spreads even just a little seems like a ton once on the ground.

I've always been paranoid about my ATO. I have 3 float switches, two pressure switches, and a float valve protecting mine. And I don't let it run for more then a few seconds every 10 minutes.

I thought mine had an auto off after 1 minute of running but either that doesn’t work or I don’t recall properly