I want to try to automate my water changes as much as possible. I've been doing them the hard way.
Here's a little bit of a plan I have. If you could make suggestions or tell me if things would work that would rock.
1: Get two 18g rubbermaid totes. One will hold RO/DI water, the other will hold RO/DI water for me to mix salt in. Ideally these would be connected to sensors or floats that have them automatically fill up and stop when a certain level is reached. I don't know what I am looking for to make this possible. But I do know I will need an RO/DI system that has an on/off that can be triggered by sensors or floats?
2: Put a small pump inside of my aquarium or sump. This will be connected to a switch so that I can turn it on to drain and turn it off to stop draining. I would drain into the bathtub drain line plumbing (luckily, this is directly behind the aquarium).
3: After the salt in the salt mixing container has mixed and I have drained some water.. have a pump in that container pump water from the salt container into the tank. Again, I would like to have this on a switch so that I can start it and stop it manually. When I'm done, the sensor/float will detect that water is missing and fill it back up with fresh RO/DI ready for salt to be mixed in it again.
4: Put a sensor/float in my sump to have the water reservoir water pumped in for automatic topoffs.
So my questions are
Your thoughts?
What are these sensor/float thingies I'm talking about.. I know they are around and can be done.
What are the switches called that I'm looking for that will allow me to turn on/off?
How can I get two containers to fill up automatically using one RO/DI system?
Here's a little bit of a plan I have. If you could make suggestions or tell me if things would work that would rock.
1: Get two 18g rubbermaid totes. One will hold RO/DI water, the other will hold RO/DI water for me to mix salt in. Ideally these would be connected to sensors or floats that have them automatically fill up and stop when a certain level is reached. I don't know what I am looking for to make this possible. But I do know I will need an RO/DI system that has an on/off that can be triggered by sensors or floats?
2: Put a small pump inside of my aquarium or sump. This will be connected to a switch so that I can turn it on to drain and turn it off to stop draining. I would drain into the bathtub drain line plumbing (luckily, this is directly behind the aquarium).
3: After the salt in the salt mixing container has mixed and I have drained some water.. have a pump in that container pump water from the salt container into the tank. Again, I would like to have this on a switch so that I can start it and stop it manually. When I'm done, the sensor/float will detect that water is missing and fill it back up with fresh RO/DI ready for salt to be mixed in it again.
4: Put a sensor/float in my sump to have the water reservoir water pumped in for automatic topoffs.
So my questions are
Your thoughts?
What are these sensor/float thingies I'm talking about.. I know they are around and can be done.
What are the switches called that I'm looking for that will allow me to turn on/off?
How can I get two containers to fill up automatically using one RO/DI system?