Automatic Water Change System (using LiterMeter 3) Part 2
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Part 2 of my automatic water change/exchange system on my reef aquarium. Looking at the LiterMeter 3 pump as well as storing salt water in containers and how to tune and calibrate the system.
Videos helped a lot. Thanks for sharing
That's a graduated cylinder, not a beaker. ;) Awesome video. Thanks.
ha! Mp10 is used to mix salt!
Love my Tunzes as well.
Hi Saul! I used this item: Hanvex HDCQ50 50ft 2.1mm x 5.5mm DC Plug Extension Cable for 12V Power Adapter and more, 20AWG Cord for CCTV, LED
It was $15.99 online. It is made for security cameras but works great for the LiterMeter Good luck!
Any chance you remember where you found those labels for your storage tanks? I cannot find them anywhere...
This is exactly what I planned on doing. This clarifies things for me a lot better. My laundry room to tank is about 80 ft. What did you use to extend the WXM electrical connection to the Liter Meter? Does Spectra Pure sell some sort of extension or is the electrical cord of the WXM long enough? Thanks!
Very good post...Im looking to do the same thing. Seems like you have had it gong for a bout a year now. Is it still accurate? How often do you hve to callibrate? Would you do anything different if you were starting from scratch?
Great video, explanation and idea....How has this ended up working out for you? Does it ever kick on your auto top off or are both pumps synchronised to add and remove at the same time?
Hi David... Simple answer is it works very well.
I have found the LiterMeterIII to be very reliable and super accurate. I too worried about the water exchange triggering the auto-topoff to kick on. But I remove about half a gallon (0.5gal) of water a day, divided into 150 cycles each removing about half an ounce (0.5oz) each cycle and then after that adding half an oz back, repeated 150 times a day. This 0.5 oz of water is about one (1) cubic inch in volume which is in a sump area of about 100 square inches so the actual sump water level drops by only about 1/100 of an inch and then when the water is added it raises the 1/100 of an inch. This is far too small of a water level change to trigger the auto-topoff to turn on, so the systems can and do work independently. So no problem with running both water exchange and auto-topoff simultaneously on my setup. Hope that helps!
@@psherman4714 where did you get those labels for your mixing drums?