Mistking Query - Orchid Board

calvin_orchidL · #1 05-24-2012, 10:39 AM

Hi everyone/Marty,

Hoping to get an answer to this quickly because I'm leaving town for two months and all I have is my trusty Mistking to keep things alive!

I have a setup of 4 exoterra tanks (2 on either side of the hall), each with 4 nozzles each (16 nozzles) and powered by a single pump (the lower power one). Each tank has 2 single head nozzles and a single two-head nozzle. The reservoir is below the level of the nozzles, and the pump is below the level of the reservoir.

The nozzles for each tank is connected in series. From the pump, I have one T junction going to either set of 2 tanks, and then another T junction for each of the two branches going to each tank.

My question is, a few of my nozzles aren't misting properly - they are just spluttering. Strangely, when I swap them around with other nozzles, it's always the same position that is affected, suggesting that the nozzle isn't the culprit. I have been misting so far by misting two tanks at a time - somehow if pump the water input directly into each set of two tanks, it works fine, but if I try to mist all 4 at once, then I get the spluttering or even no misting at all.

I've run CLR through all the nozzles several times to dissolve deposits, and I use RO water.

Any ideas? Could it be the connectors that have deposits? Any idea why this should happen?

dounoharm · #2 05-26-2012, 10:41 AM

sounds like you have done all you could.....how old is your pump? maybe its not got enuf ooomph to push the water thru 4 nozzles....or it could be getting ready to fail.....i would look at that next....gl

isurus79 · #3 06-06-2012, 06:37 PM

Sounds to me like you are trying to push too much water through the system with too little horsepower in the pump. Did the system used to work well and does not now, or has it always had this problem?