Help on calcium reactor upgrade

[Kimber]

I've decided it's time for me to upgrade my calcium replenishment system to a reactor. I've also recently purchased a RO/DI system. Now I need help picturing how it all works together.

My current setup has the RO/DI and 32 gallon reservoir in the garage. The reservoir water is mixed with pickling lime and continuously dripped in the sump by a medical doser and tubing that runs under the house. To refill the reservoir, I manually turn on the RO/DI unit and hope that I remember to turn it off the next day.

I know there's a way to make this whole process cleaner, more reliable, and automated by using a float switch, plumbing the RO/DI directly into a pipe, and using a calcium reactor. I just don't know how it all works together. Does the calcium reactor have to be under my stand, or can it be out in the garage? How would a float switch turn my RO/DI on and off? Thanks for helping me understand how it all works together.

Kimber

 

[O P Ing]

hi.
You need a way to feed your calcium reactor with water from your tank, and it does not have anything do with RO/DI. kalkwasser reactor, OTOH, works with RO/DI.

You can keep your 32 gal reservoir for top off once you setup your calcium reactor. The only difference is that you don't have to add any pickling lime (still needs to turn off the RO/DI the next day!). The reactor will need CO2 gas and aragonite (or other substrate), so in the long run, it is cheaper and more stable.

 

[kimberw]

What's the difference between a kalkwasser reactor and a calcium reactor? Which is preferred?