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06-15-2006, 03:28 AM
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i'm sure that the problem was water getting into the valve and seleniod. i cue tipped it out, put it back together with out the milwaukie bubble counter, then i built a new inline bubble counter out of acrylic and mounted it above the sump no chance of water now since my sump is elevated. i use a small pump to feed but for the most part the water is fed into the reactor by gravity 1/2" going into reactor on the floor and 1/4" return uses the weight of the water and the preasure of the gas to return to the sump, there just isn't enough head height force to get up to the counter.
Of course i could have just raised the CO2 tank up instead but that would be too easy.... besides who wants to look at a tank and use up valuable shelf space at the same time. hope this helps.
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10-10-2006, 03:56 PM
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I've had nothing but problems with the millwaukie. Even at 10PSI the bubble rate keeps changing. I've got it hooked up on a controller and the darn solenoid got stuck open after an outage 3months ago. When the power came back on the solenoid never worked after. Got myself one of these recently and loving it
 also hooked up a plastic check valve 
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10-10-2006, 09:39 PM
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i'm pretty sure they still carry them http://www.plumbingsupply.com/
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10-10-2006, 09:44 PM
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this one is the best i heard. still waiting for it on the mail
http://www.petstore.com/ps_ViewItem-...-Dennerle.html
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10-10-2006, 09:48 PM
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Oh! That's the one I couldn't remember the name of. I got mine from Wendell. I think he had to order it, but anyhow, yes I've got that one, seems to work fine.
What's weird is that unlike other air-line check valves, you can't blow into it and have the air pass. It must operate on some really high pressure or maybe the fact that the gas needs to be CO2 in order to pass. I could not blow into it and I tried as absolutely as hard as I could and got nothing. But put it on my CO2 line and my reactor pH went down, so somehow it's getting where it needs to be.
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10-10-2006, 10:05 PM
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needle valve
That bubble counter/needle valve combo definitely has design flaw. Remove it and replace it with a needle valve from JL's http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...ct_ID=cr-pnval
then build a small bubble counter out of acrylic. quite easy to make or buy one retail. no problem since for me.
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