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OH... may have to stand corrected there Joyce... Thinking about it, you may be right....

I'll check.... jut coz otherwise someone else probably will

Not me :lookinginalldirections:

Whoever said it, i get the point, im coming closer to being perfect

er i mean my device is coming closer to perfection
(i searched to see who said it, but came up short, but then i only searched for a min )

Been playing with "it" over the weekend and today:
a 1.25 L water bottle is overkill for 375 mL counter bottle, tips once it is only about a quater full....thinking of reducing the counterweight bottle, as well as the water bottle , to make it more compact, as the fitting doesn't need too much weight, as it moves fairly freely

How have you lived so long Ell ?Cheeky old bugger! I remember you
telling a 19 year old he may not see his 21st birthday! Just joking,
spent all today reading yours and Janet and Axls old websites! Problaby
why my own system is going so slowly!

I expected i set myself up with that wording, and i expected it would be you too Ell that picked it



Yeah, i am focusing on "it" and putting the rest of my system off, plan to put "it" on hold while i get the header tank, and set up more gbs ....

Dont let :it" rule your life Daniel,AP can do that for you.

modified the fitting today, so it stops at an angle allowing the fulcrum to overbalance. Made with mostly tape so its abit "spongy" and not as ridgid as i would like, but hey i still am in the experimentation stage....

I wasn't going to log in, but couldn't let a comment like that past. Leaving yourself wide open to rude comments there Dan. Sounds like IT is coming along though...

Nova

lol, when i have ironed out the kinks, i plan on plastic welding the fitting so its more solid (prub with just a butane torch rather then the propper hot air plastic welder)

Ouch that may hurt a bit.

not much to update, waiting on a header tank before i can really do much
going to use http://paramountbrowns.ihub.com.au/Desk ... ntbrownsau
as my header tank .........

Just installed a backup "aerator", which runs on potential energy (was hoping to make one that ran on positive thoughts ) , and is good for over 2 hours of no power. The only downside is that it only aerates the bottom pond.....so that will be the higher stocked one.

The "aerator" was unintentional, initially i was going to try and remove it, but testing it to the limits with good results means it will stay....

Ok now the description;
i have the drain pipe of the top tank going into a bucket, so it is syphoning the two levels equal. The bucket has the overflow which drains into the lower tank. Because of the large surface area, the overflow initially drains slower than the inflow, but once the water has risen in the top tank by about 3 cm, inflow equals outflow. This means in the case of a power faliure, there is 3 cm of water, or about 160ish litres which sucks in air as it falls and aerates nicely for about 2 hours (drips for days equilising the water lvl a drip at a time)

Still waiting on the barrel for the header tank....shouldn't be too much longer now

May have found a pivot fitting for the outer flouter today, it is one of those three arm rotating plastic sprinklers, far from ideal, but may be able to modify my initial design to incorporate it. Tested the bit where it rotates, didn't seem to leak, but its the point which is most likely to fail. If it does leak, i could use it for rotating spray arms in my biofilter/header tank

chopped a blue barrel in half too, soon to be growbeds...