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You mean directly from the rodi?Anyone run their ATO directly from their water station to tank? Any issues or concerns I should have? Getting tired of filling the reservoir....
From the barrel my RODI fillsYou mean directly from the rodi?
I have my rodi setup to fill a 30 gallon brute container. I run my JBJ ATO off that brute container.From the barrel my RODI fills
For the price of the pmup v2 just replace the thing when (if) the kalk wrecks it. I have run a maxi jet 800 as my ato pump for over a decade without replacement, about half that time there was kalk in the ato water. The kalk hasn’t wrecked my pump yet.So currently I have an ATO issue. I have the Tunze 5017 and the pump is in a dedicated container with rodi/kalk mix located in the basement (about 18 feet away from the display/sump). The Tunze will do the job but I am constantly having to prime it because of back pressure which defeats the purpose of an ATO. I would think the simple solution would be to get an aftermarket pump with more head pressure and get the gaudy adapter from Tunze to make it work.
I have two issues that I would also like to fix, one is that the pump has to be kalk friendly and two, be apex compatible. I could just get the Apex ATK to solve head pressure and apex controller compatibility, but that doesn’t solve the kalk issue with the wear tear on these pumps. I was thinking of peristaltic pump but I don’t know of any that are controllable with the Neptune Apex. Anybody have any ideas of combating this problem or am I overthinking this?
I haven’t seen any good reviews on the Neptune ATK either which is why I went with the Tunze. I have the DOS from Neptune for AWC which has no issues with head pressure. This is how I got the idea of using a DOS pump “peristaltic pump”. Neptune doesn’t have a stand alone DOS pump for ATO, so I looked into the company Avast which uses this option and can be controlled with a breakout box for the apex. The issue here is that I see good reviews on there site but nothing on R2R. For something that costs twice as much as the Neptune ATK, I am a bit hesitant without user experience from here.I’d certainly be looking at solving your head pressure issue. Priming that pump all the time would drive me nuts! Whether you go with a peristaltic pump or an ATK I think is probably a personal choice and dependent on budget. ATK’s haven’t had the best reviews in the past, but I don’t know if that has been fixed in their version 2 of the system. A DOS will certainly pump the distances you are talking about. I’m looking at maybe getting one to set up an automatic water change system eventually but that’s a year or more down the road for me. If you went with something like a DOS you’d basically have to use parts from an ATK and come up with programming to control it, or Macgyver something with a breakout box to control it anyway.