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Old 04-22-2015, 12:42 AM
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Minor update...
Got my electric float switches in the mail the other day for my water change station. Had some time today to get a few last things buttoned up. Float switches installed in both barrels. In the FW barrel to the left they will control the RO/DI coming on and off via an Apex break out box. Then in the SW barrel the high one will kick out the pump filling the barrel from the FW barrel and the lower one will kick out my Stenner pump from doing anymore water changes. I'm also thinking of setting up an alarm on the Apex if that ever happens, to alert me I need to re-fill my SW.
I still need to wire all that up, but I'll work on that while the tank is cycling etc. I also just painted that board on the wall between the FW barrel and the sink. That's where I'm hanging my RO/DI system.





Automatic water change Stenner pump installed and piped.



And the sump with pumps installed and ready:





And finally a buddy was driving by a large retail outlet and saw all their display shelving and tables outside so he thought that was strange. Went in and asked, turned out they were replacing everything and were throwing all the old ones out!!! So he picked up several truck loads of shelving and 3 tables. I talked him out of one of them
Plan is to set up my QT tanks and gear on it.



Looks like this baby will get wet by the end of the week
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Old 04-22-2015, 12:47 AM
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Water soon!?! Can't wait, looks awesome and the shelving is a good score!
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Old 04-25-2015, 10:22 PM
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Got my RO/DI system moved over this aft



Uhmmmm I'm thinking I may have neglected my filter change a bit too long




And we're making water !!!!!!! This may take a while, lol

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Old 04-25-2015, 11:17 PM
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Congrats Dom! Mounted filter looks awesome, nice work!
So you should have all your water made in 4 days? Lol.
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Old 04-25-2015, 11:23 PM
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Lol, I figure 3 at least. My system I think is 100 gpd and I figure I need 300 gal
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Old 04-27-2015, 04:23 AM
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160 gallons down, 150 or so to go. Made 100 gallons of SW and pumped it all into the sump. Moved the other 60 gal FW into the SW barrel so the RODI can run over night.
30 hours in of making water so far. Wife is getting sick of listening to the booster pump, lol.
At this rate, I'll probably fire it all up Wed night
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Old 04-27-2015, 02:54 PM
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40 hrs in - 230 gallons...
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