I am entering the world of ato and hopefully saying goodbye to morning and evening top offs. I got a JBJ ATO with an aqualifter am trying to set it up. Think I got the sensors right, the is issue is with the aqualifter. It gets triggered to turn on and will start moving water from the resevoir to the sump, but it only moves water for about 15 seconds. I can still hear that the pump is working, but it is not moving more water.
I tried to trouble shoot. Make sure the end of the water line was submerged in the resvoir, so I rubberbanded a weight onto that so that isn't the issue. I thought that maybe it was a bad aqualifter even though it was NIB, I keep a NIB spare. Opened that up and it performed the same way. The aqualifter sits about 2 ft above the water line in the resevoir and pumps over about 2 ft across and 1 ft down into the sump. I have not trimmed my tubing yet, so the tube to the sump is about 6ft long right now.
Any ideas? Is the aqualifter not the right pump?? Thanks!
I tried to trouble shoot. Make sure the end of the water line was submerged in the resvoir, so I rubberbanded a weight onto that so that isn't the issue. I thought that maybe it was a bad aqualifter even though it was NIB, I keep a NIB spare. Opened that up and it performed the same way. The aqualifter sits about 2 ft above the water line in the resevoir and pumps over about 2 ft across and 1 ft down into the sump. I have not trimmed my tubing yet, so the tube to the sump is about 6ft long right now.
Any ideas? Is the aqualifter not the right pump?? Thanks!