Where to find Normally Open Electronic 110V solenoid ?

[SonsOfLeda]

If you've got big fish make your you put a splash guard around the float switch so it isn't continuously turning on & off with water movement (small fish can die and jam the switch too).

Dr Joe

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This doesn't pertain to him. He's planning on using it as a safeguard where (hopefully) the water level won't be even close to it 99.9% of the time. Plus, I doubt there's any fish in his sump.

 

[Dr Joe]

I can still do this for the top of the tank, as my tank top is about 7-8' from the floor, so no one will be able to see the float switch.

I am running 30 Psi of water line through my dosmatic, will that be too much for the mechanical float switch ?

Stan

This doesn't pertain to him. He's planning on using it as a safeguard where (hopefully) the water level won't be even close to it 99.9% of the time. Plus, I doubt there's any fish in his sump.

I make big mistakes not small ones...sump is not spelled t-a-n-k

Dr Joe

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[SonsOfLeda]

My idea is to use a float switch, if for some reason the drain pump in the sump is not pumping out, water level in the sump will rise to the level of the float switch.

It's spelled tsaunmkp throughout the course of this thread, evidently. Now he's got us all confuzzled.

 

[flamenco-t]

I can still do this for the top of the tank, as my tank top is about 7-8' from the floor, so no one will be able to see the float switch.

I am running 30 Psi of water line through my dosmatic, will that be too much for the mechanical float switch ?

Stan

This was in regards to the mechanical float switch that I was going to put on the drip line to stop the drip when water level rises, but I just realized that I won;t be able to do this as the display tank level would never changes.

stan

 

[SonsOfLeda]

This was in regards to the mechanical float switch that I was going to put on the drip line to stop the drip when water level rises, but I just realized that I won;t be able to do this as the display tank level would never changes.

stan

rallysman was referring to running a mechanical float in your sump (not your tank) off of the drip line similar to those that fill up strage tanks with RO water. That way, if your water removal system in your sump ever gets plugged or the power goes out to your return pump, the float would mechanically stop the incoming water (assuming it could hold up to the incoming water pressure). Doing it like this would be both cheaper and more reliable.

I looked at doing it this way, but couldn't figure out how to incorporate the drip emitter I was looking at inline with the mechanical float valve. This is the valve I was looking at. It can handle up to 90 psi.

 

[johnptc]

check www.mcmaster.com for float switches and solenoids

 

[rallysman]

check www.mcmaster.com for float switches and solenoids

I beat ya to that

 

[johnptc]

I beat ya to that

you win