Rodger, thanks for fielding all these questions on your forum and offering great personal service . In short i would like to know the approx. rate of delivery of the Osmolater pump (slow or fast drip/ or stream)with a head of 4 feet and how does the timing safety feature work to minimize overdosing potential? I know it has multiple sensors but i thought it was mentioned that there is a time limiting safety feature? And can it be set to dose (via kalk reactor) during a certain time of day such as after lights out by using a separate timer? Thanks, Mike.
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The osmolator pumps about 1 pint pper minute if I had to guess. Imagine a stream that shoots about 4" from a hose the size of airline tubing. It can handle up to 9ft of head. The primary sensor uses infared, a secondary safety switch is present if the optical sensor fails. The circuitry has a logic component where it uses the data available to it to make some assumptions. It runs a few seconds after registering full and waits a few seconds after sensing no water to turn on, this saves the relay and pump from excessive wear incase it is just a wave or surface disturbance. The system also will sound an alarm if it gets unusual feedback, like float switch is up but optic sensor is indicating no water is present. The other feature is, if a fill isn't registered within 10 minutes it figures either your tank is leaking or your bucket is empty and shuts off sounding an alarm. You do have some settings for alarm function and can disable it. There is no way to time it. It is so sensitive that very little water will be dispensed at once, you could safely dose kalk all day as it is unlikely more than a cup of solution would go in at once- the sump literally has to just drop 1mm to turn it on.
How come it took 13 minutes to get back to me?-must be a union job LOL. Well that was a mouthfull and i will need time to digest it since it's way more sophisicated than the simple float/solenoid set-ups i've used but sounds well thought out. Thanks for the prompt and comprehensive response, Mike.
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