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I'm trying to understand how I will maintain my ATO reservoir if I put kalk directly in it. Looking for slick systems that folks might have. Perhaps I'm being dumb, but it doesn't seem trivial, though dosing Kalkwasser via ATO does seem best (given my system).
The TL;DNR:
I have the regular tunze ATO (not the nano). The Tunze pump just sits inside a 5 gallon bucket next to the sump. The bucket (ATO reservoir) has two holes drilled in the sides near the top. This is where the electrical and the water lines go in for the Tunze pump. I have a big screw top lid on the bucket, which makes it easy to both seal and open the bucket to refill and for water level inspection (found the lid at Home Depot). But if I ever needed to remove the pump, it would mean fussing with removing the water line to the pump itself (it was not easy to attach that line to the pump) and removing the raw electrical wires from the Tunze "clamps"- those crazy things Tunze provides to connect the electrical to the Tunze controller. Thus, removing the Tunze pump from the ATO reservoir is something I try to avoid having to do.
If I'm understanding correctly, once I start putting kalk in the bucket (i.e. the ATO reservoir), I'm going to have to remove the pump regularly to remove the bucket (ATO reservoir) from my office here and clean out the bucket. This is the kind of chore I try to avoid, as it will be futzy and I'll postpone it accordingly. Hence, looking for cleaner/simpler solutions.
There are also questions in my mind about water levels and dosing correctly, since now I just add RODI water to the reservoir whenever it starts to get lowish. Seems if I'm dosing, I'll have to do this in a more measured fashion?
So.... (sorry for the length!)... given all of that, this looks extremely handy and simplifying: https://www.tunze.com/fileadmin/gebrauchsanleitungen/x5074.8888.pdf
Dang thing is ridiculously expensive though, and might not be simplifying- it might add complexity compared to just putting kalk in the ATO 5 gallon bucket I use.
BRS doesn't carry that Tunze Calc dispenser it seems. I'm getting the impression is isn't commonly used, which tends to tell me something...
I'm also a little unclear how people keep their ATO pumps out of the slurry on the bottom of the ATO reservoir. I guess if I'm dosing small amounts, there may be no slurry? If there is slurry, BRS has a video where they talk about putting the pump in a cup that sits in the reservoir. I'd plan to just suspend the pump via shortening the return line to hang it from that. But now we're back to fussing with the lines that I'd like to avoid.
The TL;DNR:
I have the regular tunze ATO (not the nano). The Tunze pump just sits inside a 5 gallon bucket next to the sump. The bucket (ATO reservoir) has two holes drilled in the sides near the top. This is where the electrical and the water lines go in for the Tunze pump. I have a big screw top lid on the bucket, which makes it easy to both seal and open the bucket to refill and for water level inspection (found the lid at Home Depot). But if I ever needed to remove the pump, it would mean fussing with removing the water line to the pump itself (it was not easy to attach that line to the pump) and removing the raw electrical wires from the Tunze "clamps"- those crazy things Tunze provides to connect the electrical to the Tunze controller. Thus, removing the Tunze pump from the ATO reservoir is something I try to avoid having to do.
If I'm understanding correctly, once I start putting kalk in the bucket (i.e. the ATO reservoir), I'm going to have to remove the pump regularly to remove the bucket (ATO reservoir) from my office here and clean out the bucket. This is the kind of chore I try to avoid, as it will be futzy and I'll postpone it accordingly. Hence, looking for cleaner/simpler solutions.
There are also questions in my mind about water levels and dosing correctly, since now I just add RODI water to the reservoir whenever it starts to get lowish. Seems if I'm dosing, I'll have to do this in a more measured fashion?
So.... (sorry for the length!)... given all of that, this looks extremely handy and simplifying: https://www.tunze.com/fileadmin/gebrauchsanleitungen/x5074.8888.pdf
Dang thing is ridiculously expensive though, and might not be simplifying- it might add complexity compared to just putting kalk in the ATO 5 gallon bucket I use.
BRS doesn't carry that Tunze Calc dispenser it seems. I'm getting the impression is isn't commonly used, which tends to tell me something...
I'm also a little unclear how people keep their ATO pumps out of the slurry on the bottom of the ATO reservoir. I guess if I'm dosing small amounts, there may be no slurry? If there is slurry, BRS has a video where they talk about putting the pump in a cup that sits in the reservoir. I'd plan to just suspend the pump via shortening the return line to hang it from that. But now we're back to fussing with the lines that I'd like to avoid.