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Old 12/12/2007, 07:08 PM
miatawnt2b miatawnt2b is offline
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Explain bad and the ugly - coil denitrators & power outages.

OK, So say I am running a coil denitrator and the power goes out for 6 hours. What happens when the pump comes back on? Does teh resulting dead gunk in teh denitrator wipe the tank?

I am debating one of these, and I am trying to figure out a fail-safe if the power quits. I had actually thought about just gravity feeding into my sump so that the denitrator wouldn't stop, but I'm not sure if that is such a good idea being... well... the tank is siphoning into the sump during power outage. I see bad things here. so there is my second question... Those of you running coil denitrators, what's your fail safe?

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Old 12/12/2007, 07:21 PM
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Tagging along, my fail safe is praying.
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Old 12/12/2007, 07:52 PM
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i'm thinking running it with a maxi-jet and a cheap UPS may be a good option.
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Old 12/15/2007, 10:34 AM
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