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This is awesome Jimmy!
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I already designed the mounting plate for the larger pump so it was easy to cut a new one with new locations of certain parts.
Installed the motor and pump head
Installed the pivoting frame
Right now I'm simply using silicon tubing 6mm ID 9mm OD. In the future I plan to use a more durable tube.
Clamp it all down with the spring and nut
After getting it all together I wanted to test it out:
Thanks guy,
today I was able to make the final part for the pump. being that I have the ability to cut acrylic with a laser and garble has the ability to print with his 3D printer, it will be interesting to see the design he came up with.
I have to approach it from a 2D perspective by cutting a series of flat pieces and layering them to achieve the final product. In this case I had to design 5 individual layers and have them all line up at the end. Here's the design with all 5 layers together:
And after it's all cut and bonded together.
I was able to get some real peristaltic tubing and this stuff actually pinches the liquid off, unlike the other stuff that I have been using. while putting it all together I filed down the sharp edges on the yellow piece and lubed everything up. I'm amazed at how quiet it made it run... hmmm who knew that lubrication would silence things.
Now it's up to @garbled to tweak the arduino programming to make it more suitable for reefing.
That is exactly what I'm working on today... heheIf you are able to remake that program for automatic doser that was amazing!
Why did you post end up at the end of page 1?Great job. You should see if there is a way you can incorporate and LCD display that shows the rpms or figure out how to convert to ml/min and display that!
I'm far from even a beginner when it comes to coding, I have been obsessed with trying to get it to automatically dose on a schedule, what I've determined is that there needs to be a RTC (real time clock) added to the hardware and associated program written. If that's going to be an option, I have to figure all that out. Although there is a way to sort of use millis() as a timer, but there are limitations and accuracy problems....If you are able to remake that program for automatic doser that was amazing!
Excellent point!!I know for the Spectrapure pumps I have the engineer I spoke with at spectrapure said when doing the calibration to make sure you have the length of tubing you are going to use when the pump is in place and to also use the liquid you are going to dose. Since different liquids have different densities. If have found that having longer tubing lengths will change the amount of liquid that can be dosed.