Ok I want a water on the floor alarm... any ideas?????

[Poppy828]

Joel,

Can't you put a float or something on the tank itself to shut the pump off if the water get's to high?? That could/should save a lot fo clean up for you. Just a thought.

 

[ostrow]

Nobody is grasping this. It's not always a water level too high in the tank issue. What if a bulkhead busts?

 

[Poppy828]

I understand what you are wanting to do, I am simply giving at least one option for rising water inside the tank itself. This in itself would save a ton whereas the floor sensor has to sense water to react. At least this way you save some time if an overflow is blocked from something.

 

[ostrow]

True. But float switches have a funny way of failing, and they are eyesores. I don't really want a float switch in my display, fuge, frag tank and sump. Probably the failsafe would be dual floats in all the tanks AND floor sensors but then how do you hook all of that up to the return pump?

I like the relatively low cost of these sensors. What I can't figure is how to link 2 together so that I can have either sensor shut off the return pump (if I had one on the floor upstairs vs. display overflow and one downstairs vs. frag/fuge overflow.)

 

[skunkmere]

i order one of those waterwatchers. 40 after shipping. i think it worth it since i dont have to hunt for relays and misc parts. thanks ostrow

 

[ostrow]

Skunk they have something better than that on the site. They have a washerwasher that prevents any water on the floor. But tell me if it doesn't work, eh?

 

[StingRay1969]

woot

Here is the Leak Frog available today only.

 

[ostrow]

I'm getting something from autopoff.com. 2 sensors with 18 feet of line, connected to a relay switch that has an alarm and will shut off a load up to 15amps. $65. Exactly what I want.

 

[esdayal]

I bought these for myself and they are sold out almost every time.
http://www.woot.com/

 

[ppurcell]

Joel, got a link for that? I couldn't find it on their website.

 

[ostrow]

Email Paul and tell him you want what I got.

 

[yankeereefer]

I thought about this thread yesterday when I saw this on woot.

http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=1751245

 

[Paul B]

I am an electrician and I build all of my shut off devices out of GFCI's.
There is one under my domestic hot water heater that will shut off water to my heater in the event of a leak. There is one in the pail which catches the effluent from my skimmer which shuts off the skimmer pump.
I just plug in the pump into the GFCI and run two wires from the GFCI in series with a resister to a place on the floor where a leak might occur. The wires end in a plastic film container with a weight in it and some holes drilled in it. If it gets wet, it trips the GFCI and anything plugged into it turns off.
This is not really a legal way to do it but it is safe and it has always worked. I have been doing it this way since they invented GFCI's