Asylumdown's 275 Tank build

[asylumdown]

looking at that in 3-D, it's making me re-consider whether or not the gate valves I have in mind are possible. I don't think that a 2 inch gate valve exists that has a handle 16 inches above the actual valve.

hmmmm.

[asylumdown]

Oh man thanks, that's awesome. Yah, I basically didn't want to sacrifice any system volume or sump size to have a second salt water mixing container/storage under the cabinet. I figure if I can build it so that I don't need to hand siphon out water, and then hand ball in mixed salt water from a garbage can, that's optimal. Then if I can keep the volume I would otherwise use for the mixing and storing of water change water as part of my system, even better.

[dave_C]

ok see if this makes any sense to you


the return chamber is on the right, the middle is for whatever you want to put in ie carbon, reactors, heaters or such. the left is for ro water for auto top



the top left is your mixing tank, top middle is for the refug and the top right is for the skimmer. the holes in the brace is for the drains from the main tank.



the three little tanks with lid are for your three part dosing.

how it works is

1)one drain feeds the skimmer chamber which will keep a water height of 9 inches, than is over flows into a two inch tunnel that feed into the reactor chamber

2) the second drain with a ball value will feed into the mixing tank, with the ball value open it will force the water to overflow in to the refug chamber. than after the refug it overflows in to the same tunnel as the skimmer to end up at the reactor chamber. with the ball value turned off, the mixing tank will be isolated from the remaining parts of the sumps and you will be able to drain that chamber with a ball value installed on the side of the sump. than add water and salt, wait for it to mix and turn the ball value will bring the refug and mixing chamber back in line

here is a top view of how the skimmer and refug overflow into the tunnel



hope that makes sense lol

[lastlight]

Dave's a sketchup ninja. Never know when he'll attack lol...

[dave_C]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Dave's a sketchup ninja. Never know when he'll attack lol...

lol i use to hate it but now i can get thing like this done in under 10 min. you should see the one i muck up of my basement and fish room, that was a 3 day head scratcher for me

[asylumdown]

Holy crap! Thank you so much.!

So where would the auto-top off sensor need to be in this design? Would it need to go in the return chamber?

The only changes that I would need to make would be to the R/O top off container, do you think I could eliminate that chamber altogether by using my reservoir in the basement (about 50 gallons) as the source of my top off water? The house is being wired so that I will be able to hook a pump in the basement reservoir to the top off sensor. I also don't really have a way to get R/O water upstairs by any other means unless I hand ball it up in buckets (not optimal), so I'm trying to think how I could modify this design to automatically fill the water change chamber via a pump in the basement. In the first design I had used the auto-top off system to do it, but maybe I could just have a second pump in the R/O reservoir that I control manually?

Also, any chance you feel like building a sweet a** sump?

[asylumdown]

I'd probably also still need a pump to drain the mixing chamber I think. The drain that was plumbed in to the wall is about 9 inches off the ground.

[kien]

Wow great looking build! I especially like how your builder is building all the infrastructure for you! :-D I need a new house..