I wasn't going to post this cause I figured who wants to hear my tale of woe... yet one more hobbyist with a story! Then I figured, if we weren't here to console each other what good is the BRS - therapeutic value has got to be worth at least $1 of my $10 membership fee - right?
While traveling last week to CA, I got a call from home telling me the status lights on my JBJ ATO unit were all lit up. This was a quick fix from 3,000 miles away as I knew it meant the float switch in the sump was stuck. Directing my wife and daughter on how to reach in and "wiggle" the switch free was another matter - but we got through that and slept well that nite. Next day in the afternoon I received a call from home telling me about the flood on the floor in the fish room. Navigating through this was not quite as easy as the previous day as you can imagine - spouses don't seem to find humor in this at all. Diagnosing this 3,000 miles away was not particularly easy until I reflected back on the previous day and surmised that they knocked the drip line from the Calcium Reactor out of the sump when they wiggled the float switch... eureka, problem was identified and fixed... 50 ml per minute drip rate is not much until you let it do this all day long.
Lessons learned #1: secure drip line so that it can't be knocked out from the sump.
Lesson learned # 2: Have plenty of extra RO/DI water on hand to fill the reservoir after the wife empties it through the reactor drip line or else your sump runs dry.
Lesson learned # 3: bring back something nice from your business trips to cover any problems you caused on the home front while you weren't there.
While traveling last week to CA, I got a call from home telling me the status lights on my JBJ ATO unit were all lit up. This was a quick fix from 3,000 miles away as I knew it meant the float switch in the sump was stuck. Directing my wife and daughter on how to reach in and "wiggle" the switch free was another matter - but we got through that and slept well that nite. Next day in the afternoon I received a call from home telling me about the flood on the floor in the fish room. Navigating through this was not quite as easy as the previous day as you can imagine - spouses don't seem to find humor in this at all. Diagnosing this 3,000 miles away was not particularly easy until I reflected back on the previous day and surmised that they knocked the drip line from the Calcium Reactor out of the sump when they wiggled the float switch... eureka, problem was identified and fixed... 50 ml per minute drip rate is not much until you let it do this all day long.
Lessons learned #1: secure drip line so that it can't be knocked out from the sump.
Lesson learned # 2: Have plenty of extra RO/DI water on hand to fill the reservoir after the wife empties it through the reactor drip line or else your sump runs dry.
Lesson learned # 3: bring back something nice from your business trips to cover any problems you caused on the home front while you weren't there.
