Osmolator Top-Off System by TUNZE

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  1. Matt Rogers

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    So Jason, since your here do your Osmolator? ;D
     
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  3. Jason McKenzie

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    HEHEH
    Surprised you know what I was talking about. Looks like I left out a word or two. ;D

    Just fine?
    Am I being paranoid? I know it's not cheap, just want to make sure your happy with it. ;) :)
     
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    Ok you asked for Pic you got pics.
    By the way I love this thing. After the loss of the Lemon Peel Angle I was conviced I needed something to stablize my water. Because it is a 40G and the weather has been unusually hot in BC for the last three months 32C or 89F) I was loosing a lot of water to evap in order to keep the water cool. But now I maintain a constain water level while also having high evap to help with the heat. It is a pricy little unit but its worth the piece of mind, having read the threads on home made float switched failing often, I really didn't want to go that route.

    With out further delay
     

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    Kick butt J.
    Are you using a five gallon bucket as a reservoir?
     
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    Sorry I added all the pics in seperate posts but deleted them and will now post all in one thread

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    Wow. Tanks looking great J! :)

    What size is that sump?
     
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    It's a 20G Tall.  I really messed up the overflow, and finally fixed my homemade dual dersos.  One was about 3mm higher than the other so the taller one would suck in a lot of air. Noisy Aquariums make me mad.  I thought I would have to ripe the hole thing apart and straighten out the over flows but simple cutting 3mm of the stand pipe fix it.
     
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    [quote author=Jason McKenzie link=board=Product;num=1092636427;start=15#17 date=08/21/04 at 11:37:30] Noisy Aquariums make me mad.[/quote]

    I hear that! ;D


    [quote author=Jason McKenzie link=board=Product;num=1092636427;start=15#17 date=08/21/04 at 11:37:30]
    I thought I would have to ripe the hole thing apart and straighten out the over flows but simple cutting 3mm of the stand pipe fix it.[/quote]

    Nice. I am sure I'll have questions for you next weekend when I get back on my 20 long project - it has a durso. Never dealt with one before.
     
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    Jason, I have my ro/di line run from under the kitchen sink up through the attic to my sump where I have my float valve. To use the osmolator do you have to have a seperate top off reservoir of water for it to work or can I just set it up directly into my sump with the line that comes through the attic?

    Cindy