Where should i put AWC tubes?

[PegasisR]

where should I put the drain line and freshwater line? Thank you

 

[Wen]

I have my drain line located in sump after the filter socks. The drained dirty water is pulled by DOS and empties into a roof water drain line.
The new saltwater line is pulled by DOS from nsw reservoir and dropped into return chamber of the sump.

 

[PegasisR]

I have my drain line located in sump after the filter socks. The drained dirty water is pulled by DOS and empties into a roof water drain line.
The new saltwater line is pulled by DOS from nsw reservoir and dropped into return chamber of the sump.

Thank you and have you scheduled it for 24hrs to change the water or like 9-5 type of schedule?

 

[K7BMG]

Do you have a controler?
You need to drain out how ever much you need first.
Then add the same amount back in.
The auto top off if you have one needs to be disabled during this process to maintain stable salinity.
I do my auto water changes at night after lights out.

 

[K7BMG]

The location of the lines will not matter as long as they are not running at the same time.

If they run at the same time then the drain and fill lines need to be as far apart as possible.

 

[PegasisR]

Do you have a controler?
You need to drain out how ever much you need first.
Then add the same amount back in.
The auto top off if you have one needs to be disabled during this process to maintain stable salinity.
I do my auto water changes at night after lights out.

Yes, I've got an apex with the dos for awc

 

[PegasisR]

The location of the lines will not matter as long as they are not running at the same time.

If they run at the same time then the drain and fill lines need to be as far apart as possible.

I've got the drain line in the skimmer chamber and return in return chamber. Aswell its running at the same time the draining and freshwater return. Also ive got a gravity fed ato

 

[schuby]

I pull out upstream(dirty) and put back downstream(clean), both in sump. DOS pumps are staggered, 5 minutes apart (half noise level), over 24 hours (less noise, too).

 

[K7BMG]

Yea, I think you will be better served to run at seperate times.

 

[schuby]

I fill first to have less effect on ATO.

 

[K7BMG]

In my opinion thats counter productive.
I understand why with a gravity ATO and all but you want to remove first.
If you fill first the water is diluted so to speak so you are removing less bad stuff.

 

[PegasisR]

I fill first to have less effect on ATO.

Would you be able to show how you did it in apex?

 

[K7BMG]

I do it through the task icon.
I will have to look at my programming on my computer tomorrow.

 

[schuby]

I schedule the fill from 00:01 to 23:55. The remove from 00:05 to 23:59. Same amount for both ( 2 gal or 8000 mL for me). Used the Apex task wizard for initial setup then tweaked timing afterwards.

Each interval is 55.9 mL, not enough to dilute my 140 gal actual water volume.