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So I setup my own DIY ATO with my Neptune controller. I installed one of their optical eye sensors to detect the water level. And thankfully, I installed a float switch for the high water. Well in the 3 days I've had it up and running here is my experience.
Day 1 - come home from work and the water is about an 1inch below the sensor. Yet Apex doesn't detect it and never turned on my ATO. Played around with it, disconnected everything, plugged it back in and everything looked like it was working.
Day 2 - come home and same thing. Sensor never detected the water was below and never activated my ATO. Unplugged everything again, and seemed to be working fine again.
Day 3 - Come home and again water is below the sensor. Did all the same again, and seemed to be working. I come back an hour later to see my water really cloudy. Yea, glad I checked when I did, b/c it filled up to my emergency float and pumped about 2 gallons of KALK into my tank. It never detected the water line was ABOVE, and never shut off.
So 3 days into this, and it hasn't worked once yet. Not to mention my leak detectors I got also have been very finicky.
Has anyone had these problems as well? I'm wondering if my FMM module is bad? I'm so unplugging my kalk reactor until this gets figure out, or finds its way into the garbage can :-(.
Day 1 - come home from work and the water is about an 1inch below the sensor. Yet Apex doesn't detect it and never turned on my ATO. Played around with it, disconnected everything, plugged it back in and everything looked like it was working.
Day 2 - come home and same thing. Sensor never detected the water was below and never activated my ATO. Unplugged everything again, and seemed to be working fine again.
Day 3 - Come home and again water is below the sensor. Did all the same again, and seemed to be working. I come back an hour later to see my water really cloudy. Yea, glad I checked when I did, b/c it filled up to my emergency float and pumped about 2 gallons of KALK into my tank. It never detected the water line was ABOVE, and never shut off.
So 3 days into this, and it hasn't worked once yet. Not to mention my leak detectors I got also have been very finicky.
Has anyone had these problems as well? I'm wondering if my FMM module is bad? I'm so unplugging my kalk reactor until this gets figure out, or finds its way into the garbage can :-(.