ATO FOR ON THE GO

[jessesoto33]

I got tired of adding DI water to my ATO reservoir (5 gallon bucket lol) so I added a FMM to my Apex along with a couple of optical sensors, and a solinoid, It’s working great, here a few photos.
Here’s where it starts from bathroom, don’t mind the dirtyness if that a word.

Up and through the wall

Other side coming out

Down

Around the corner

Through the Solinoid

Into 5 gallon bucket (reservoir)

Final look

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[jessesoto33]

I wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t for all the fail safe components
1. Shut off valve on the RO/DI unit.
2. Solinoid shut off valve
3. Optical sensor for fail safe
4. Flout valve ( just in case it all fails)

Here are the commands on Apex

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[Letsgotothezoo]

Looking good Jesse. 5 gallon enough for your tank ?

 

[jessesoto33]

Looking good Jesse. 5 gallon enough for your tank ?

It’s a continuous refill from my RO/DI Unit. I never have to refill manually no more. And if something goes wrong after 4 fail safes then Apex shuts it off through that FMM I got from you.

Oh yea and I did have to purchase that power supply for the FMM

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[pledosophy]

IIRC doing the continuous refill from the RODI unit is going to be bad for the RODI filters. You will want to program times for it. Maybe have it refill the bucket once a day or something like that.

Also, I would make sure there is a fail safe in case there is something with the tank that causes water loss. A buddy of mine lost his beautiful 450g with an ATO setup, similar to yours, when his skimmer went crazy for some reason. He ended up dumping about 100g of fresh water into his display over a day. Dude lost everything.

Your setup looks clean though. Good job!

 

[Jimbo327]

That's a good tip about programming times for the refill. And I also like the whole limiting the amount of water it can dump into the system if there is a leak. The whole 5 gallon bucket may be a good way to limit the amount of water it can dump into your system.

Another good tip is we should have a float for the skimmer to prevent overflow.

 

[jessesoto33]

IIRC doing the continuous refill from the RODI unit is going to be bad for the RODI filters. You will want to program times for it. Maybe have it refill the bucket once a day or something like that.

Also, I would make sure there is a fail safe in case there is something with the tank that causes water loss. A buddy of mine lost his beautiful 450g with an ATO setup, similar to yours, when his skimmer went crazy for some reason. He ended up dumping about 100g of fresh water into his display over a day. Dude lost everything.

Your setup looks clean though. Good job!

Good lookin out, I’m gonna grab another optical sensor for my skimmer. As of now it dumps back onto my sump, but yea good point thank you


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[Smite]

Nice work. I ran a line through my crawl space to my ATO on the side of my house. It’s 25g so I just manually turn my RODI on once a week to top it off. I just run a mechanical float due to that.
I’ll say I did forget to turn it off a few times and that resulted in the rodi clicking on and off constantly without flushing. Every time I’ve done it my DI stage is exhausted. so great tips setting a high low sensor or time for the ATO res.

 

[Jimbo327]

Good lookin out, I’m gonna grab another optical sensor for my skimmer. As of now it dumps back onto my sump, but yea good point thank you


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You probably don’t want to use an optical sensor on a skimmer, probably just a mechanical float. I would think the bubbles and nasty skimmate may mess with an optical sensor.

 

[jessesoto33]

You probably don’t want to use an optical sensor on a skimmer, probably just a mechanical float. I would think the bubbles and nasty skimmate may mess with an optical sensor.

True that, I think I have some laying around somewhere, have to find them, thanks


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[Classictint]

Very nice! I’m going to do something like this and my Rodi is just on the other side of the wall