Bernie420
Well-Known Member
Well I guess I am going to be getting a couple more of those little alarms that go off when there is a water leak. Other than that I dont know what I can do other than get my bucket looked at or replaced as it is fairly new (5months old).
Anybody got the time to explain those float shut off switches real quick. I looked at them and to figure out how the sensor in the stick reacts to that white float on it. Doesn't seem to be magnetic to me???? idk
So yesterday I plugged in a large air mover fan. So everything seemed fine I guess. But at some point I blew a fuse and my lights were off for 24 hours. Went and unplugged the fan flipped the switch. Lights came on and all of that. Tried to think of what happened and I guess when the fridge I have kicked in it blew the fuse because it was over loaded. As far as I can guess. The fridge doesn't work now. The light comes on but the compressor wont kick on. So I left the fridge unplugged for awhile. Plugged it in a little later and it still doesn't work.
So after the lights came on it was feeding time. I reset the dial on the bucket and it started to fill. Looks good go away. The control bucket doesnt turn off the fill I flood the room with about ten gallons till I caught it. Cleaned everything up go and look at why the bucket didnt stop. NO IDEA WHY OF COURSE. The inside is pretty clean. Now it doesnt drain but it will fill. I used the fill outlet and plugged in the drain cord till it all drained out of my buckets and then unplugged the whole thing.
Haven't had any problems till today. The fan will get moved to a different outlet and the fridge will stay unplugged till I get into that later on.
Thats it in a nutshell any ideas why the control bucket overfilled cant have that happening again. Luckily I was here and awake and caught it or I would of spilled a lot of water on the floor. I am going to measure what I need in my barrel and how much fills into the buckets to see what I need to get the job done and just keep it at that level all of the time if I can, so if it does happen again it wont spill to much. Wishful thinking of course.
I really cant have this thing flood out on me again. I am thinking of putting each blue bucket in a tub and run the line through holes I will drill and seal them up with silicone. So if it does over fill it will all be caught in the tubs. And with that thought I only have to do a few in their own tubs and make sure if it does over fill then it will all be caught in the those that have tubs. So by the time it pumps all of the water out because of a failure I wont have to be cleaning up a bunch of water and have the pump just run pumping air.
Good idea with the tub thing bad idea? Any idea's?
Anybody got the time to explain those float shut off switches real quick. I looked at them and to figure out how the sensor in the stick reacts to that white float on it. Doesn't seem to be magnetic to me???? idk
So yesterday I plugged in a large air mover fan. So everything seemed fine I guess. But at some point I blew a fuse and my lights were off for 24 hours. Went and unplugged the fan flipped the switch. Lights came on and all of that. Tried to think of what happened and I guess when the fridge I have kicked in it blew the fuse because it was over loaded. As far as I can guess. The fridge doesn't work now. The light comes on but the compressor wont kick on. So I left the fridge unplugged for awhile. Plugged it in a little later and it still doesn't work.
So after the lights came on it was feeding time. I reset the dial on the bucket and it started to fill. Looks good go away. The control bucket doesnt turn off the fill I flood the room with about ten gallons till I caught it. Cleaned everything up go and look at why the bucket didnt stop. NO IDEA WHY OF COURSE. The inside is pretty clean. Now it doesnt drain but it will fill. I used the fill outlet and plugged in the drain cord till it all drained out of my buckets and then unplugged the whole thing.
Haven't had any problems till today. The fan will get moved to a different outlet and the fridge will stay unplugged till I get into that later on.
Thats it in a nutshell any ideas why the control bucket overfilled cant have that happening again. Luckily I was here and awake and caught it or I would of spilled a lot of water on the floor. I am going to measure what I need in my barrel and how much fills into the buckets to see what I need to get the job done and just keep it at that level all of the time if I can, so if it does happen again it wont spill to much. Wishful thinking of course.
I really cant have this thing flood out on me again. I am thinking of putting each blue bucket in a tub and run the line through holes I will drill and seal them up with silicone. So if it does over fill it will all be caught in the tubs. And with that thought I only have to do a few in their own tubs and make sure if it does over fill then it will all be caught in the those that have tubs. So by the time it pumps all of the water out because of a failure I wont have to be cleaning up a bunch of water and have the pump just run pumping air.
Good idea with the tub thing bad idea? Any idea's?
