Salt Water Mixing Stations Let's See Them

bla403 said:
Its one that you pickup and can spin with a handle. I have RO hose with valves on each end and then I just spin it and tuck the valves at the end so it stays put. The valves also help in not making any messes when the tubes empty out.
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pic or link to valve please, thanks in adv.
 
What kind of hose/tubing should we be using to get the water from the spigot to the tank? I read that flexible clear tubing you can find at home depot is not suitable for tank water. Apparently The chemicals will break down and enter the water.

So whats hose/tubing is everybody using?
 
I have read that you can use drinking grade hose for like RV's, the trick will be finding the one with a 3/4 inch internal diameter.
 
Some of the RV water hoses have mold inhibitors now. I ordered the ones without from amazon and received the ones with. For that reason I ordered clear tubing from flexpvc.com
 
What struck me is that I didn't see many GCFI outlets in these mixing stations - hopefully they are upstream or built in at the breaker box....

Maybe I'm a little sensitive. I live on a lake where folks had a lot of submersible pumps to pull water out of the lake. Couple folks got electrocuted, and when I had to change out the pump mine wasn't grounded (WHAT??) and a 30 AMP device was run the last 30 feet with lamp wire with multiple splices.

I shudder to think about my kids swimming around it.
 
I agree with the importance of GFCIs. I use Tower "Shockbusters" and waterproof outlet covers on on ALL tank related circuits.





I chose these as they auto-reset in the event of a power failure and so that I can remove them if they trip when running on my backup generator.
 
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CalmSeasQuest said:
I agree with the importance of GFCIs. I use Tower "Shockbusters" and waterproof outlet covers on on ALL tank related circuits.











I chose these as they auto-reset in the event of a power failure and so that I can remove them if they trip when running on my backup generator.
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Fully agree, i have them on all of my tank applications!
 
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Well as I recall there may be more to a GFCI circuit than a breaker. I'd suggest doing a bit of research on that but I don't recall what was up. My impression was though that it may not be as easy as just replacing the breaker.

I wanna say there was something with distance, time, and tripping the breaker. Heck. I've slept since then.

Outlets may be different.
 
From my understanding, and I'm no expert. But they're more or less the same. If you need to protect multiple outlets in a area, use the breaker. If you have 1 outlet, use the plug. They do the same thing and function the same. For me, I have 6 receptacles, all by water. And some of the plugs themselves have light switches built into them, and from my understanding they don't make GFCI combos. So from what I know, it ends up being preference/situation.
 
Texanjordan said:
I wanted to be able to pump water from any of the barrels into any of the other barrels. This is a work in progress, still need to work out some kinks, and cement everything together. I performed a water test yesterday, and it works great.
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You may be able to go with the extra valves on the end tanks. You have 2 on the end tanks coming out of the barrel drain - I would think you can get rid of the extras and save some $$ if you can take them back. Maybe I'm off...either way nice setup!
 
Some of these are quite awesome....I didn't look at all of them. LOS's is very nice, I wish he had made a video of it though as I think I could have understood it better! I get what it does, I'm not sure how it's all connected or how someone would clone such a setup. Looks great though!
 
I have an Iwaki MD70RLT pump that I used as a return for my old 250 gal. I am thinking I need a larger pump for the 450 gal I am currently building. Would the Iwaki be overkill for a mixing station? Could problems arise from too much flow? I have 2 150 storage tanks I will be using for the station.
 
RockyMtnReef said:
I have an Iwaki MD70RLT pump that I used as a return for my old 250 gal. I am thinking I need a larger pump for the 450 gal I am currently building. Would the Iwaki be overkill for a mixing station? Could problems arise from too much flow? I have 2 150 storage tanks I will be using for the station.
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I don't believe so. I have a Iwaki MD55RLT for my 55 gallon drum mixing station. mainly because I have to pump water a good distance from the mixing station to the tank. keep in mind you can dial the pump back a little if need be but I don't see where too much flow would be a problem in this application especially considering you're using 150g tanks
 
anyone have any creative ways to incorporate a pnuematic blow-down to get the leftover water in the hose into the tank? i mean yea i can break the connection and walk it out like a firehose but....c'mon, it'd be cool
 
dukduk said:
anyone have any creative ways to incorporate a pnuematic blow-down to get the leftover water in the hose into the tank? i mean yea i can break the connection and walk it out like a firehose but....c'mon, it'd be cool
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Good question. Kind of annoying doing the "walk out" every time...
 
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