Feeding a Geo

Titleist · Mar 3, 2019

How are you guys who have them, feeding tank water to your geo calc reactor?

I plan on pulling with the Kamoer but was thinking I didn't want to pressurize the reactor with a pump.

I was thinking of running a pipe down from my overflow box and let gravity do the work rather than forcing water in through a manifold or pump.

Reasonable? Anyone doing something similar or is a pump of some kind the way to go?

Flippers4pups · Mar 5, 2019

Titleist said:
How are you guys who have them, feeding tank water to your geo calc reactor?

I plan on pulling with the Kamoer but was thinking I didn't want to pressurize the reactor with a pump.

I was thinking of running a pipe down from my overflow box and let gravity do the work rather than forcing water in through a manifold or pump.

Reasonable? Anyone doing something similar or is a pump of some kind the way to go?

I'm not sure that would work as the drain from the overflow would need to be constant and without air in it.

mtraylor · Mar 5, 2019

I dont believe gravity will give you head pressure you need to force the water out the effluient plumbing of 1/4 inch tubing. You will most likely need a pump. I feed mine from manifold from return pump.

WWIII · Mar 5, 2019

If you pull through with the kamoer it's not really pressurizing the reactor. I have my geo setup this way and I can even remove the ph probe with the whole thing running. There's no pressure to speak of. I really think it's a good way to run the CaRX, hopefully the kamoer holds up well for the long haul!

Titleist · Mar 10, 2019

WWIII said:
If you pull through with the kamoer it's not really pressurizing the reactor. I have my geo setup this way and I can even remove the ph probe with the whole thing running. There's no pressure to speak of. I really think it's a good way to run the CaRX, hopefully the kamoer holds up well for the long haul!

That's my thought. I have a manifold on the returns and could use one of the taps but I was thinking if I pulled with the kamoer it wouldn't matter how much pressure I'm putting in the input since I'm actually pulling it through. I figure pulling at drip rate through the reactor I could just drill out a port on the overflow box to feed the reactor. After watching the BRS video I'm pretty set on pulling through rather than forcing into the reactor and dripping with a valve.