need advice on some equipment...

[JNye]

i just got a tunze osmolator cuz I have never heard a bad review on them, supposed to be the cream of the crop for top-off.

 

[Rod Buehler]

I have used and like the Tunze. Make sure that the suction cups are sticking. Also try to find another way to secure it besides the suction cup if you can.

 

[badazztealcobra]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11897725#post11897725 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by poo-tang
i just got a tunze osmolator cuz I have never heard a bad review on them, supposed to be the cream of the crop for top-off.

I have read the same things, plus no float switches to go bad with it I believe...

 

[klasiksb]

I have used a dual float switch set up for several years now and they have worked perfectly. One switch set slightly higher than the other so if the main switch fails, the higher one will cut the power to the pump. I'm using an aqualifter pump so it pumps it in pretty slow.

I clean them off every so often and they are mounted in such a way that snails would have to swim to get to them.

I will use the same setup again, but probably add a third back up switch, just because. Float switches are pretty cheap, so why not.

 

[JNye]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11897829#post11897829 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rod Buehler
I have used and like the Tunze. Make sure that the suction cups are sticking. Also try to find another way to secure it besides the suction cup if you can.

How about siliconing the rail to the glass, LOL, Mine had some plastic screw or something with a suction...uh no, I glued that sucker down. Its sweet so far!

 

[klm2500hd]

I'm going to throw this question out there since I know Ren's setup pretty well. What kind of distances and heights can you pump with a peristolic or diaphram pump? For example, can you go up 5' over 10' then down to the tank? Then he could fill up say a 10 gallon container and pump from that to the sump to prevent the chance of too much r/o.

myself, I'm running direct from r/o, through a drip valve set to slightly more than daily evaporation, to a solenoid operated by float valve. that way even if the solenoid fails, salinity will stay close to normal. I just can't get the valve to drip slow enough (after 3-4days the sump level is higher than I prefer), so the solenoid is more a safety for the drip valve than anything.

as for wavemakers, I've been told that you need one that slows the pumps down, but not completely off for the Koralias. Any truth to that?