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An idea, not sure if it can be done. Thoughts

stargate.king4

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An idea, not sure if it can be done. Thoughts

Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 11:50pm

I've got an idea for a personal project for a family member coming back from deployment that requires 3 pumps (I need three different colors of fluid for my idea.) and three flow meters.

I'm wondering if there is a way to hookup the Aquaero 6 XT (w/Real Time Clock) and Aquaero 5 LT (w/Real Time Clock?), having two pumps on a y adapter and the third on a separate header. The three Aquaero 5 LT headers would be for the three flow meters.

Possible or is it something I've got to figure a different solution?

Either way it works out, thanks for any help or ideas.

mandrix

Full Member

Thursday, June 5th 2014, 12:29pm

Not enough information but.... Possibly doable. I would be very very careful about feeding two pumps from a Y adapter and make sure one pump doesn't get starved at the expense of the other.

madcratebuilder

Junior Member

Saturday, June 7th 2014, 2:04pm

Each pump receives a bus address so the Y cable is GTG.

mandrix

Full Member

Saturday, June 7th 2014, 2:24pm

I must have been off in space when I read his post. For some reason I thought he meant to feed two pumps fluid through some kind of pipe Y adapter.... :wacko: Of course two pumps on the Aquabus is OK.

Jakusonfire

Full Member

Sunday, June 8th 2014, 12:24am

For 3 flow meters you need either 3 USB flow meters, or 2 Aquaero's or an Aquaero and 2 poweradjusts. Lots of ways to do it but each requires specific hardware. The 5lt headers will not support 3 flow meters.

3 loops can be done but it requires some specific hardware to do it the way you want. Mandrix is right, for any answers you need to be more specific.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Jakusonfire" (Jun 8th 2014, 12:29am)

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