I had an experience the other night that rattled me pretty good.
Our system has a big old recirc skimmer. One pump makes bubbles,and the return pump manifold feeds the skimmer.
Some Chaeto was sucked up into the return pump and clogged at the seaswirll. This meant less water pumping into the tank.
In return, this caused way more water to be pumped into the skimmer, it started overflowing immediately into the overflow bucket.
The float switch triggered, and the bubble pump stopped pumping.
However, the APEX was not programmed to turn off the return pump in this case.
There was a mini flood, but luckily I was sitting right here.
APEX is now programmed to turn off return pump also if skimmer overflows, email, text, yadayada..
So if you have a 'puke' bucket on a recirc skimmer keep this corner case in mind.
Hope this helps someone out there avoid this situation.
Our system has a big old recirc skimmer. One pump makes bubbles,and the return pump manifold feeds the skimmer.
Some Chaeto was sucked up into the return pump and clogged at the seaswirll. This meant less water pumping into the tank.
In return, this caused way more water to be pumped into the skimmer, it started overflowing immediately into the overflow bucket.
The float switch triggered, and the bubble pump stopped pumping.
However, the APEX was not programmed to turn off the return pump in this case.
There was a mini flood, but luckily I was sitting right here.
APEX is now programmed to turn off return pump also if skimmer overflows, email, text, yadayada..
So if you have a 'puke' bucket on a recirc skimmer keep this corner case in mind.
Hope this helps someone out there avoid this situation.
