How stop cistern dead

mordeith

I was hoping someone might have a clever solution for me here. I have a rainwater collection system that supplies flush water to the toilet. There is a pump that activates when the toilet flushes to refill the cistern. However as the cistern nears capacity the water fill slows to a trickle resulting in a juderring on/off from the pump which I'm guessing can't be good for it in the long term. Is there any way to have the ballcock arm stop the cistern filling in a single motion? The arm of the ballcock is bent downwards slightly but I don't want to push that too far in case it breaks.

corkgsxr

There's a different type you can fit but they might block up alot over quality of the water.


Like the fluidmaster ones

mordeith

corkgsxr wrote: »

There's a different type you can fit but they might block up alot over quality of the water.


Like the fluidmaster ones

Would they just fit the existing inlet pipe yeah?

EDIT: Just googled them there. They have a vertical float so it looks like the inlet would have to be at the bottom of the tank as well or am I looking at them wrong?

Calahonda52

mordeith wrote: »

I was hoping someone might have a clever solution for me here. I have a rainwater collection system that supplies flush water to the toilet. There is a pump that activates when the toilet flushes to refill the cistern. However as the cistern nears capacity the water fill slows to a trickle resulting in a juderring on/off from the pump which I'm guessing can't be good for it in the long term. Is there any way to have the ballcock arm stop the cistern filling in a single motion? The arm of the ballcock is bent downwards slightly but I don't want to push that too far in case it breaks.

is this a home brew rig or a purchased system

Does the pumps have pressure vessel on it, not a float switch, a pressure vessel?

mordeith

Calahonda52 wrote: »

is this a home brew rig or a purchased system

Does the pumps have pressure vessel on it, not a float switch, a pressure vessel?

It's a purchased system. By pressure vessel do you mean a small tank? (we have one on our solar system). On the water pump there is a small clear glass container. I'm guessing that's a float switch?

corkgsxr

mordeith wrote: »

Would they just fit the existing inlet pipe yeah?

EDIT: Just googled them there. They have a vertical float so it looks like the inlet would have to be at the bottom of the tank as well or am I looking at them wrong?

You can buy side and bottom entry

gctest50

you could dump the ballcock and get a float switch instead

if the tank is big enough, wire it through a timeswitch so the pump doesn't run at night

if possible hook it to the house alarm so it doesn't run when the house is unoccupied

Calahonda52

gctest50 wrote: »

if the tank is big enough, wire it through a timeswitch so the pump doesn't run at night

if possible hook it to the house alarm so it doesn't run when the house is unoccupied

Two very interesting ideas:)

mordeith

Thanks, I'll look into the float switch.