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Lol- drainage was an easy decision. I have s utility sink with a 1 hp bucket pump that shoots my sink water up 10 feet and ties into the main drain stack. Water change plumbing is tied into that - I open a valve on my 29g tank that is the first chamber of my sump and it drains out in 4 minutes. I then chase this with 5 gallons of tap water so the bucket pump isn’t sitting in saltwater. Rodi waste has a tiny saddle T that puts waste into the same stack.
Replacement salt water goes from water station next to sink in the opposite direction via 1/2 pvc to the 29g. Pump is on a wireless switch so I can be watching it fill in the room.
Power- I agonized over this fir WEEKS. I finally decided to add backup outlets at strategic points and some duplexes at bench areas.
So- 2x 20amp circuits with one duplex on each. Each apex eb8 gets plugged into one of those, then I’m running 14 awg thhn in conduit (one end plugged into eb8 outlet, the other end a single outlet of a duplex- make sure to cut the tab!) around the room to power and monitor the equipment. Another 20 amp circuit powers room led downlights (4 x 1000 lumen 5k temp, 0.6 amps total) , a 0.6 amp 6” in-line fan for ventilation and 5 drops of duplex outlets for minifridge/freezer for food storage, desk lamp, webcam power, and a couple extra. On that circuit is also 3x quad outlets positioned fir frag tank, observation tank (these two will be running full time, pulling 5 amps total) and right above the skimmer chamber for skimmer/Heaters/reactor pump IF I have an issue with an EB8 and need temporary power. Power calculations show I can run 2 heaters skimmer and return as well as the fridge/freezer, lights, fan and pull 12 amps so itll be fine.
Apex has a dedicated cat5e cable, and will be located on the right wall, except fir the pm2 that will have salinity and temp probes and one BO box for floats in the sump. This’ll be above the skimmer section and connect to the apex via a 15 foot long male/male usb cable housed in conduit. The ph probe cable is long enough to go around the wall to the skimmer section (do this fir all your probes, Neptune, Please!!) and one other BO box will be on the ‘main’ board for shut down/ feed mode/ water change switches.
All my power and data are either perpendicular or running separately in conduit 16” apart
Replacement salt water goes from water station next to sink in the opposite direction via 1/2 pvc to the 29g. Pump is on a wireless switch so I can be watching it fill in the room.
Power- I agonized over this fir WEEKS. I finally decided to add backup outlets at strategic points and some duplexes at bench areas.
So- 2x 20amp circuits with one duplex on each. Each apex eb8 gets plugged into one of those, then I’m running 14 awg thhn in conduit (one end plugged into eb8 outlet, the other end a single outlet of a duplex- make sure to cut the tab!) around the room to power and monitor the equipment. Another 20 amp circuit powers room led downlights (4 x 1000 lumen 5k temp, 0.6 amps total) , a 0.6 amp 6” in-line fan for ventilation and 5 drops of duplex outlets for minifridge/freezer for food storage, desk lamp, webcam power, and a couple extra. On that circuit is also 3x quad outlets positioned fir frag tank, observation tank (these two will be running full time, pulling 5 amps total) and right above the skimmer chamber for skimmer/Heaters/reactor pump IF I have an issue with an EB8 and need temporary power. Power calculations show I can run 2 heaters skimmer and return as well as the fridge/freezer, lights, fan and pull 12 amps so itll be fine.
Apex has a dedicated cat5e cable, and will be located on the right wall, except fir the pm2 that will have salinity and temp probes and one BO box for floats in the sump. This’ll be above the skimmer section and connect to the apex via a 15 foot long male/male usb cable housed in conduit. The ph probe cable is long enough to go around the wall to the skimmer section (do this fir all your probes, Neptune, Please!!) and one other BO box will be on the ‘main’ board for shut down/ feed mode/ water change switches.
All my power and data are either perpendicular or running separately in conduit 16” apart
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