Haha. I told my wife what you said about schedule 80, and she laughed... I am learning to be frugal in some parts. My daughter once found all my sharpies in my bag and decided to use them on the guest bedroom wall. Instead of getting mad, I just wrote the date on the wall- memories.
I guess I need to take more pics. Rodi is hard wired in with a float switch. I am already thinking about how I can run more tubing up through the floor and do wc that way. I do like the idea of awc through the apex.
That's a good way to look at the sharpie incident for sure. Sometimes in the heat of the moment it's much easier said than done to remember that things like that are - at worst - inconveniences. A friend of the family has a daughter who was diagnosed with a super-aggressive cervical cancer right after she started college and is undergoing continued treatment at Duke. That's a real problem.
I'm with you 100% on the AWC. Been trying to plan this same thing out for when we get relocated, so you guys please poke all the holes you can in my thinking on this... I'm assuming you're thinking about using the DOS, right? Looks like it will pull water 25' vertically or push water 30'. I'll have to defer to folks with a much stronger background in physics than I have (Reduck!), but I would guess that's true assuming you're using the standard small-diameter tubing that comes with the pump, and that maximum head height would diminish quickly if one used a larger diameter feed line coming from the reservoir. So... like Reduck mentioned, what I had thought about was running PEX from the basement up to one of those recessed in-wall ice maker cutoff valves installed where the tank will be. But then how would I get the DOS to pull saltwater from the mixing station in the basement up through the larger-diameter tubing? Maybe a (much) less-elegant solution would be to keep some sort of intermediate reservoir upstairs that the DOS would draw new saltwater from and use the Insteon home automation software to control a powerhead in the mix station that could pump saltwater on-demand from the mix station, up through the PEX and into the upstairs intermediate reservoir. Heck, maybe even use some float switches in the intermediate reservoir to signal the powerhead to come on when additional new saltwater is needed upstairs. The reason I'm leaning toward incorporating the home automation stuff in addition to Apex is simply because I don't want to purchase another energy bar to place downstairs for one powerhead and then try to get a USB cable ran from that energy bar to the main Apex. The Insteon home automation gear would let me put a breakout box connected to float switches anywhere in the house that's near an electrical outlet and then use the AC wiring already in the house to carry the signal rather than USB cables. Anyway, how were you thinking about making that work Bizacon?
