My Latest fishroom project....(pic intense!)

Hi All
well I decided that to make my RO/DI more efficient I wanted to add a fresh water holding tank and have gravity feed my kalwasser top off system.
Before this project I had a control panel that directed top off water to either the Kalk reactor or just directly to the sump.
Here is what the control panel looked like...

Since I wanted to add a fresh water holding tank and I wanted to keep the automationI figured some changed to the water panel were needed.
Once I got started I decided to just build a whole new water control panel and to add an auto top off system for the freshwater holding tank.
So here is what I have now.....I am quite pleased with the outcome.
Here you can see the holding tank and the new control panal

Here is just the new panel....Right side distributes water from the RO/DI between 3 things.
1) Freshwater holding tank
2) Saltwater Mixing Tank
3) general use spicket to draw water from the system for cleaning equipment etc.


This is the right side of the panel that distributes the water 3 ways


This is the left side that controls whether the water goes to Kalk reactor or straight to the sump.

The Reef fanatic controller that controls the filling of the storage tank
it now makes about 5 gallons of water at a time intead of cycling on and off with short bursts which burns DI resin much quicker.

Here is the storage tank
It has High and Low float sensors along with a float valve and a 3/8" overflow for redundancy


I have to say that I am very pleased on how it is working so far...
Thanks for looking!!
eins

 

Thanks Guys.

Lee the selenoid on the top left turns the flow from the storage tank on and off according to sump level. The 2 below it are controlled by the AC3 so that if the pH is 8.4 or below it sends the water throough the kalk reactor and if the pH is above 8.4 it sends the fresh water directly to the sump.

Jeremy...I dont like the suction cups and I am working on a way not to use them...but it was like 2:30am when I got to the part to set up the tank and so I did the suction cups to get by for a day or so...
My sump has a top off system of its own so I dont need to use the AC3...the top off in the sump turns on the top right selenoid as the sump needs water that way I dont have to guess how long to run water to sump to match the evaporation amount.

Wayne1...I got the selenoids from McMaster Carr they are part # 7877K6 they are AC powered along with the indicator lights.

eins

 

Hi Joel

C'mon over and check it out...I would be happy to help you out if I can...
These solenoids are great I have been running the ones on my old panel for a couple of years now without incident.

eins

 

Well going on 3rd day and no issues yet......everything is working as planned.

water is getting down toward the bottom float switch so it will be nice to see the tank refill without issue......

eins