Power outage cycle causes skimmer overflow

I have had some power outages lately - one this morning while at work (girlfriend called when tunze ato alarm went off)...

When the power goes back on, there is a small period of time where the sump is pretty full and skimmer fills up as a result until the sump water level returns to normal.

Anyone else get this?

Is there a device I can plug the skimmer into that would delay restart after a power outage for about 5 minutes? That would be ideal...

matt

 

a reef angel can do this for you
as well as anything else you can think up

 

If you had the RKL you could set the skimmer to sure on...which is a 15 min time delay to make sure halide bulbs cool off enough before re statring after power outages.....controllers are the way to go..

 

If you had that Apex you been eying then you just program in 2 min min time after an outage before it starts again.

 

What you would need is a latching relay.

Read about them here:
Relay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

they look relatively inexpensive.

 

Looks like the writing is on the wall for a controller. oh boy :laughings

 

The writing says, in gigantic letters, "Reef Angel w/ WiFi".

 

Aye... dentist just got my money this month, but it is definitely on the short list.

 

I know this is an VERY old thread but it popped up when I was trying to find a way to prevent my skimmer from restarting after a power outage as the water level in the sump rises when the power goes out and when it comes back on the return pump has not had a chance to bring the sump water level back to the normal level and this results in the skimmer overflowing back into the sump and all over my stand walls / other equipment because the water is so high when power is restarted. Well if you do not have a controller this simple device will prevent the skimmer from restarting until you manually reset the plug. (TRC Shockshield White Portable GFCI Plug with Surge Protection part number 14650 006-6) and its very cheap. (less than $20). Its just a GFCI but with a MANUAL Reset and not a AUTO reset so if the power goes out you have to manually reset it or the device plugged into it will not have power. Anyway, I bought it, tested it, and it worked perfectly. Hope this helps someone as I could not easily find this information online.

"To prevent unmonitored equipment startup, manual reset is required after GFCI trip and power outage"

 

yea thats great, but i think what matt was looking for was something that would just delay the time, like if he is at work, and cant press the reset button...