Auto water changer

[jaws7777]

Can anyone recommend a reliable one ?

Plan is to run the drain line to the house sump pump. Any tips on installing them ? Is it difficult ?

 

[Hendre]

Like a drip system. I believe there are 2 ways of doing it.

Inline dechlorinating, with a ppm addition device or carbon filter to remove chlorine and other substances before being put in a system.

Some people also have a highly aerated and agitated sump to passively remove chlorine to absolute minimum levels before being dripped.

I would say the presence of chloramine in your water would be a deciding factor. If there is an inline system would likely be best.

I will leave more detailed discussion to the experts

 

[ragin_cajun]

First thing you gotta do is order a chlorine/chloramine test kit and be sure you actually have chlorine/chloramine in your water. They're $16 from here. http://www.thefilterguys.biz/chloramine_filters.htm

If you have chlorine/chloramine in your water, you just filter it out with a carbon block filter. Or, you can buy some dosing pumps and dose prime into a tank of fresh water and another dosing pump to drip out of that tank of dosed water.

If not, you just buy a regulator and drip right into your tank, or into your sump. Then, you put a standpipe in your sump so if the water level gets too high, it'll overflow into a drain that goes out into your yard -- or your house's sump in your case.

 

[jaws7777]

My current sp. Dabola has similar color to the smaller sp.Dabola in the photo.
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First thing you gotta do is order a chlorine/chloramine test kit and be sure you actually have chlorine/chloramine in your water. They're $16 from here. http://www.thefilterguys.biz/chloramine_filters.htm

If you have chlorine/chloramine in your water, you just filter it out with a carbon block filter. Or, you can buy some dosing pumps and dose prime into a tank of fresh water and another dosing pump to drip out of that tank of dosed water.

If not, you just buy a regulator and drip right into your tank, or into your sump. Then, you put a standpipe in your sump so if the water level gets too high, it'll overflow into a drain that goes out into your yard -- or your house's sump in your case.

Nope no chlorine or chlaramine.

The stand pipe is mainly for insurance ? So two drains would be needed for the auto drip ?

 

[ragin_cajun]

nah, just one drain in the sump. It's a hole you drill in the side of the sump with bulkhead in it. Then you put an elbow and a short piece of pipe in the bulkhead on the inside side of the bulkhead -- in the sump. That short piece of pipe is the standpipe. As water drips in to the tank or sump, water level rises ever so slightly and some falls in the standpipe in the sump, and drains out.

Just one drain--in the sump.