Mounting a slave dosing unit on the back wall of the stand
- Thread starter mmfish
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AQD_ottawa
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yes - at all possible chances do not mount under the cabinet where it could get wet, or suffer saline himidity.
Try and find a way to preserve your expensive equipment outside the cabinet.
Try and find a way to preserve your expensive equipment outside the cabinet.
The dosing pump is designed to pump liquids into a sump region, not the display tank. The dosing pump must be above the liquid it's pumping. Sumps are located within a cabinet below the display tank. The unit should have been designed for the application it's promoted for and therefore be able to tolerate mounting near the sump. Where can it then be placed? In front of the cabinet?
I'm looking forward to an insightful suggestion, as this limitation makes the dosing pump worthless for reef tanks with under tank cabinets and sumps. Any users with experience comments are appreciated.
Check out this link:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17385079&postcount=59
That picture has warranty void marked all over it, as the ghl doing pump is right over a sump area, wow!
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17385079&postcount=59
That picture has warranty void marked all over it, as the ghl doing pump is right over a sump area, wow!
AQD_ottawa
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yes not everyone is careful.
Golden rule - a dosing pump system is electronic, just as with any electronic item due care and sensible proceedures should be followed at all times. The manual of the pump states clearly about keeping away from such enviroments. It is then up the user to decide of they wish to follow the manufacturers instructions.
My doser is inside my cabinet also but on a seperate solid shelf segregated from the sump, this means no direct moisture can get onto it and the cabinet is ventilated.
As you can see the doser is completely seperate from within the ventilated cabinet.
Golden rule - a dosing pump system is electronic, just as with any electronic item due care and sensible proceedures should be followed at all times. The manual of the pump states clearly about keeping away from such enviroments. It is then up the user to decide of they wish to follow the manufacturers instructions.
My doser is inside my cabinet also but on a seperate solid shelf segregated from the sump, this means no direct moisture can get onto it and the cabinet is ventilated.
As you can see the doser is completely seperate from within the ventilated cabinet.
Hello again. I are engineer. Dont worry, I know its wrong, other engineers get the joke. Admittedly I am a mechanical engineer (turbines mostly) not an electronics engineer, but it would seem to me that common sense and your intrinsic need for preservation would dictate that you NOT locate sensitive ELECTRONIC equipment in the immediate vicinity of SALTWATER or perhaps it is simply that I grew up near a coastline. I understand as much as most the desire to hide all of my equipment for that clean look but certain contingencies must be made when it comes to exercising caution in the name of something you paid so much for. Some of the lesser controllers are sealed better allowing a broader range of mounting options but that minimizes/prevents your chance for expansion. Its your call, I guess the higher end equipment should be preserved for those capable of due diligence when designing their system but its not up to the manufacturer to decide who is smart enough for their product. Have you ever looked on the back of a can of hair spray? I says "Do Not Spray Directly Into Eyes" but they still sell it to anyone and everyone hoping they are smart enough to use it properly.
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