[christyf5]

My favorite is the story about how a $1000 controller setup is repeatedly confounded by several tiny brittle stars that make their way into the topoff sensor (and I'm not talking about just hanging around it, actually making it into the space between the float and the cylindrical tube it floats on), raising the float valve and as a result end up dumping half of my topoff water into the sump (half you say?, the valve should only move like a half inch which isn't that much water! no, not in the world of Aquatronica). Nothing like filling your topoff tank with 30 gal of water only to hear the alarm go off at about 2am (I think its programmed to only go off between 2am and 6am, cause thats when its guaranteed you'll be sleeping and it goes off every 5 seconds) and when you get downstairs most of what was in the topoff tank is gone. The first time it happened I was sure there was a leak in the topoff tank until I ended up marking the level in the sump and four days later sure enough there it was again.

My sympathies Lance. There is nothing worse than unplugging a perfectly working piece of equipment to clean it, only to plug it in a few minutes later and its deader than a doornail. Friggin hobby!