I Hate These Plastic Helm Ballast Valve Controls!!! Anyone find a replacement?

[lucky7t]

Well that's the first curse word ive seen here
Usually it's ****

I'm not offended at all but never seen that in a post here

[SCNautique210SAN]

I put 3 of these in: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DC-24V-1-2-B...item4d460dbdab. But, they seem to restrict the flow significantly. Work great though. Don't have to touch anything but the button! Wondering if the full bore 3/4 ball valve will be better. Going to give it a try.

[RosscoB]

I just bought three motorized ball valves.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-4-NPT-Moto...IAAOSwv0tVVqcR


should work better than any solenoid system. Seems those require a lot of pressure

Any update on how these worked? Could you wire them in parallel with the aerator pumps?

[SCNautique210SAN]

Any update on how these worked? Could you wire them in parallel with the aerator pumps?

I'm running 3 of these for my setup: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1. Works much, much better than my solenoid setup that I was running since they are full bore 3/4" ball valves. Essentially the width of the hose.

I run the Tsunami 1200 gph aerator pumps. This setup will work if you have a ballast system with two pumps per bag/tank (one to fill and one to empty).