DIY Kalk in 100 Seconds ----- (it's a video = no reading)

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TCUguy

Diy kalk, uses two soda bottles, connected, and is fed by my auto top off.

The valve on top is to "bypass" the Kalk if I need to fill up my tank with just water or I need to cut back on Kalk.

Cost me $0, and works very well. The kalk gets mixed every time water enters because the hose is "submerged" in the kalk at the bottom so the water has to "pass through" the kalk and stirs it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaRIpLemkVk&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]
 
@Saltpro wrote:
where did you come up with this idea? How do you control how much is getting dosed? said:
Well just seeing dosers and how they work (most of them that have pumps just "fail" since the kalk takes a toll on the impeller). Then there's the ones that have a stirrer, and I thought... Why not let the water do the mixing? And you don't have to measure how much kalk you put since it will dissolve by itself and saturate the water at it's own rate. (2tbs/1gal).

And you adjust the flow by the valve on top which "says" how much water goes to the kalk thing and how much goes straight into the sump (a simple $2 "air valve" at any pet store)
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What are you using for your auto top-off??? So does this mix and top-off at the same time, I thought normally just the clear liquid is dosed unless you are doing a quasi slurry. Did you determine how much kalk you tanks need's and how do you recalculate this when your tank evaporates more or less than normal? Do you monitor PH during the kalk addition?? Are you topping off after lights out???? Hey you said to ask questions. [smilie=lol.gif]

Cheers,
 
As far as how much kalk i need, i just use 100% top off going through there ive never calculated how much i need but it must be more than its evaporating because I STILL need to add 2 part Alk and Ca every two weeks or so [smilie=dull.gif]
 
How about adding a fan(additional or larger) to increase evaporation.(watch out for temp decrease) You have the valve to split how much goes straight to the sump vice to the kalk reactor, sounded like you were not fully topping off through the kalk reactor. Have you checked the effluent ph level, it should be ~12 if fully saturated, I don't see how you can get a completely mixed/saturated solution without a pump.

Cheers,
 
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