Float switch recommendation?

[bubbaque]

I am wanting to get a few float switchs for the Apex. Can anyone recemmend certain ones to buy or ones to avoid?

I was thinking about the 5 for $10 on Amazon.

 

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All of the plastic ones are pretty much the same.

 

[BlueCursor]

+1 on cromag08

The difference is what the float switch has running through it. A float controlling RO water keeps on working. I have had one running 4 years w/o ever touching it. A float controlling saltwater is going to clog at times. You need to keep it clean from built up salt.

 

[mcarroll]

My Ultralife Float Switch is going on 100 years old and even having gone through a total white-out precipitation event it's still only frozen a couple times. (The reason to have a finite amount of water at your ATO's disposal.....5 gallons is my limit.)

I literally got it used when I started this system almost 10 years ago, so it's older than that....but I'm not sure how much older.....based on who sold it I know it could be as much as 25 years old and it's probably at least 15 years old.

In all that time and the white-out, I've never cleaned it once.

Reed-floats are tough as nails.

(I'm sure if I cleaned it once in a while, the thing would never, ever freeze.)

 

[p7willm]

Whatever float switch you use remember, it will break and it should not be the only thing keeping water off your floor and your fish alive.