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Crazy Tarzan 
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 8:35am |
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Now I want to do a float valve running the juice to a small powerhead in a bucket that's plumed into the tank for a top off system, what do you all think? Anyone done this, or have any better ideas?
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 8:40am |
Jon Finch made something exactly for this. It is here on this forum just search for it, or send him a message JFinch.
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 8:43am |
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KeoDog
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 8:55am |
A float switch is what you want to use not a valve. http://www.floatswitches.net/
I use this one for both my top off and also to turn a solenoid valve off and on for my ro unit.
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 10:11am |
I have the float switches from "floatswitch.net" available locally for $7.00 Feel free to call me at 860-8297
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jfinch
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 10:54am |
Kirk, are you sure you want your new name to be Reesaver.net and not Reefsaver.net?  .
BTW, that's a great price on float switches, I spent almost twice that at Grainger. If you're using a float switch you might consider protecting the reed from high inductive current draws. See Adam's post for links to how I did it or http://www.madisonco.com/reference/floatswtech.htm for a more general solution. (John and Ryan... I still owe you the switch modification...)
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Reefsaver
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 11:32am |
Thanks Jon I got a little ahead of my self. The correct logon should show Reefsaver and we're working on getting www.Reefsaver.net up and running.
Anybody up on adding ecommerce to a website?
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 12:18pm |
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Kirk - there are numerous ways you can do this. However, imo the easiest is when you sign up for a merchant acct.(to accept visa/mc/discover and so on) they will give you the option of tying an ecommerce functionality into your website. There are a ton of different merchant providers you just have to decide which works best for you and your situation.
There are companies that have have built in check out programs you can add for quite cheap too.
Paypal is also another nice alternative or additional option to provide and they can tie their functionality into your site as well.
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 2:47pm |
I have a float switch from http://www.floatswitches.net/ too (from back when they had the power head float switches). I use a 20g Rubber made to hold kalk mix and a power head to push the water into the sump... of couse the float switch controls the power head. Works really well for me.
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Posted: October 06 2003 at 4:58pm |
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Try US Plastics. I got a great "all plastic" one for about $10 shipped.
www.usplastics.com
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