New to Hydros - Tunze ATO pump

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I recently purchsed a used hydros setup. It comes with a x4, 2 temp probes, 3 wifi power strips, pH probe, water level and skimmer level sensors, wifi fish feeder and a few other items. It should arrive on Saturday.

My tunze ato has stopped working (power converter issue) and getting the hydros setup as an ato is my top priority. Can I use my existing tunze pump connected to the x4 somehow?

This is the pump I have:

 

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You might be able to get it to work with an adapter but given that the Hydros ATO pump is $25 I would just get the hydros pump that you know works.


It might also be worth just getting the hydros ATO kit with everything you need.

 

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I recently purchsed a used hydros setup. It comes with a x4, 2 temp probes, 3 wifi power strips, pH probe, water level and skimmer level sensors, wifi fish feeder and a few other items. It should arrive on Saturday.

My tunze ato has stopped working (power converter issue) and getting the hydros setup as an ato is my top priority. Can I use my existing tunze pump connected to the x4 somehow?

This is the pump I have:

I use a Hydros dosing pump as the ATO pump on my Hydros. They also have a small ATO pump that works on the drive ports like the dosing pump.
 

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The tunze pump won’t work with the hydros x4 drive port. It draws alittle too much power at startup than hydros is rated for.
 
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The tunze pump won’t work with the hydros x4 drive port. It draws alittle too much power at startup than hydros is rated for.
Thank you all. I was hoping to get by with the tunze pump for now. I will order a hydros dc pump and fix the power supply on the tunze and give it to my son.
 

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