Stenner acid tank/pump

[jcichocki]

Those of you who have an acid pump with the Autopilot TC, do you put straight muratic acid in the tank or do you dilute it?

Thanks, Jeff

 

[JasonLion]

AutoPilot suggests a four to one dilution (water to acid).

 

[jcichocki]

Any ideas for this recommendation? I don't have the Autopilot...yet. I have a 2-stenner tanks (one bleach and one acid). I'm guessing I will follow the Autopilot recommendation.

 

[JasonLion]

You do want some dilution, both to prevent fumes from being an issue and to keep the water in the pipe from having too low of a PH when the pump is injecting acid. The counterpoint is that the higher the dilution the less acid you can fit in the tank.

I expect that anything from 3 to 1 up through 6 to 1 would be fairly reasonable, though it depends somewhat on the rate at which the pump injects acid.

 

[jcichocki]

That makes perfect sense. Thanks. My pump range is 0.2 to 5 GPD. So any dilution should work.