Tunze Osmolator help

[Evan West]

So I got a tunze osmolator ato to go along with my sump upgrade but im having issues with it. It has twice now dosed until it hit the e-stop or timeout. The issue seems to be micro bubbles floating around in the sump collecting on the eye. Problem is i can only put the sensor in one compartment (the return) as the other two are designed to stay at a constant water level and the return chamber always seems to have micro bubbles floating around in it from the skimmer. Not sure what to do on this one.

 

[landlubber]

strange... my tunze is also in the return chamber which is only probably 3 gallons large and i run a powerhead in it to make sure my doses are properly mixed. the water doesn't necessarily have to be "pee on a plate" flat for the optical eye to work.
so your water continuously flows until it times out (like 10 minutes later)? is your float switch triggering the audible alarm? also, i don't understand what you mean by "e-stop" in this instance. i've worked industrial jobs for 25 years so i see e-stops on everything... i don't see on on an osmolator.

 

[Evan West]

strange... my tunze is also in the return chamber which is only probably 3 gallons large and i run a powerhead in it to make sure my doses are properly mixed. the water doesn't necessarily have to be "pee on a plate" flat for the optical eye to work.
so your water continuously flows until it times out (like 10 minutes later)? is your float switch triggering the audible alarm? also, i don't understand what you mean by "e-stop" in this instance. i've worked industrial jobs for 25 years so i see e-stops on everything... i don't see on on an osmolator.

Lol was wondering if anyone would catch the estop thing, by estop i mean the float switch. And yes it does trigger the alarm, as i said the issue is micro bubbles building up on the eye making it think it is out of the water and its not, I need to figure out how to keep it away from the micro bubble i think....

 

[landlubber]

Lol was wondering if anyone would catch the estop thing, by estop i mean the float switch. And yes it does trigger the alarm, as i said the issue is micro bubbles building up on the eye making it think it is out of the water and its not, I need to figure out how to keep it away from the micro bubble i think....

ok gotcha haha.
still kind of surprised as i've seen photos of how people allow salt creep on their eye/float switch and they still work. i wouldn't try myself though haha. in your case i'd just maybe try a different wall of the sump (front even) to see if you can find a spot that doesn't collect bubbles OR you could turn the skimmer around so the bubbles blow off to a different direction.