Water evaporates from the tank too...But if the pump shut off it would only be in your sump and not the whole system of the lowering salinity.
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Water evaporates from the tank too...But if the pump shut off it would only be in your sump and not the whole system of the lowering salinity.
Sorry to interject, but can I ask where you got that container? I'm going to be in the market for something like that.I'm using the Tunze 3155 ATO. It has the optical and float as backup. I have an oversized ATO container 10gallon coupled with magnetic optical sensor for the Apex. Its as good as it gets.
I had the same experience with gravity. The dumb seal leaked and trickled water non stop. That god I caught it in time.Over 40 years of having some kind of fish tank I've been through almost every ATO imaginable and now I use gravity.
I would never use anything that has anything to do with electricity for my ATO ever again. Every one failed. 3 resulted in expensive losses.
Sorry to interject, but can I ask where you got that container? I'm going to be in the market for something like that.
I am sorry, I thought you meant the fresh water pump. Reef octopus makes pumps for your sump that will shut it off if the water level gets too low. I also think a few Jeboa also do that.Do you mean adding a sensor to my fresh water reservoir? Why would I do that? My issue with optical sensors it that they start failing to see that the water level has lowered. Resulting in dry running return pumps.
It doesn't fail off . It trips out because it's dumping to much water . It's a fail safe so it didn't dump the whole res in the DT. If I leave mine pump for like 10 second it trips outView attachment 3083648
I use this. It does fail off somerimes but what i did was mount a $25 web cam that i can see thru my phone. If i see it blinking i can just reset it thru my wifi power strip its plugged into. Problem solved. I go on vacation for a couple weeks and check this camera usually once a day or every 2 days. No worries.
Isn't the return chamber of the sump the only place the water level drops? Can't you just move the magnet mount up to (control) raise the water level to where it doesn't run dry? What am I missing here?
Other side? I'm just confused as to how it's set up. SorryCurrently I'm on to Tunze 5017, with an optical sensor and a second float switch that checks for the ATO being on too long. So it has a double check to prevent overflowing. This would have been great if it also had an extra float switch that checks the other side. Because you guessed it, I've had return pumps running dry.
If the ATO fails, yes. Could take a bit of time to run dry... Could check it visually more often...If your ato fails and wont top off water the water evaporation of the whole tank will cause the sump return chamber(the lowest point of water in the whole system) to drop until water is below intske ofbyour pump causing it to run dry and burning pump up.
Been using JBJ ATO for years. I've had 3 and never had an issue with any of them.