So, to continue the story from yesterday, now that I've actually been to work and seen the problems and stuff....
Apparently last night, towards the end of the work day,
Our fish system began flashing a red light and randomly turned off.
-We have a small Red-Yellow-Green light device above the fish that is visible on the floor that allows us to see at a glance how our system is doing.
So...Flashing Red? Not a good sign.
That means trouble.
The manager on duty was like. O.o Well...that's not good.
And they turned the system back on but didn't seem to have any more issues for like...half an hour.
But then, it shut off again, turned back on, and suddenly...the manager could smell a burning scent.
Which...last time that happened, it was because on of the motors that power one of the pumps had burned out. Aka. Died. Aka Needed to be replaced.
In any case, the manager in charge was like. ()_() AHHH!!!!
And called my manager (who is in charge of the department and works with the fish system) for help.
-Which now makes sense why the manager knew about the problem because I knew he hadn't been scheduled to work that evening.
So it makes sense that he was called in to check it out and such.
Well...fiddling with it....didn't help at all. And like...the system was now leaking and such.... :S Nothing really could be done to fix it after an hour.
And after about the same amount of time talking to the Solutions Center on the phone...
It was decided that it would be best if the entire system was shut off.
Letting it rest and such.
Which was basically when my manager contacted me about the situation and asked me to look at in the morning and see if it was any better or not.
So this morning I came in.
To see that the system had indeed been completely shut off.
Which...was bad news for our Feeder Goldfish as if there's no flowing water....it gets pretty stagnant in there really quickly. :S Yikes.
-As usually when we turn the system off, it's just off. We don't use the "Completely Off" tool as regular "Off" will turn off the water flowing to the main fish system, but leave the feeder goldfish system up and running so water is continually flowing within it.
So first step for me.
Was to move the fish system from "complete off" to "off" so that I could see if the goldfish part of the filtration was working.
Which thankfully it was.
Otherwise it could have been really bad for them....
In any case, once I established that that was flowing.
I turned on the rest of the system just to see what was up.
and Yah....
No water was flowing into the main fish system.
Even though it was on.
There was a huge leak above the sump (where water runs through the filter cartridges)
And I could see that two of the three pumps weren't quite working.
So I turned that part off.
:S Because there was no point in it being on if no water was running through the pipes anyways.
And yah....
Thankfully, maintenance was able to send out a guy quickly.
So by like 10 am we had a guy back there looking at everything and figuring out what was wrong and such.
Needless to say....our system is old and cranky.
The end result?
A) He fixed our Fluidized Bed that wasn't working.... (hadn't realized it wasn't working. Manager said it doesn't ever really work properly)
B) One of the connector pipes leading to Pump 3 cracked, so the pipes were sucking in air instead of water to the pump which...makes it difficult to work when it's meant to be run with water.... So the connector needs to be replaced but at least the pump itself seems to be fine.
C) Pump 2. Completely dead. It burned out. So it needs to be replaced as there's nothing that can be done to fix it. Unfortunately...the part is more than likely going to take a week or two to arrive. :S Yikes.
D) A couple of the relays burned out. -the thingies that talk to the pumps to tell them to turn on and off and such- So those need to be replaced and most likely got fried when Pump 2 burned out and Pump 3 began sucking air instead of water. *exhales*
So all in all...
Yikes yikes.
At least the maintenance guy was able to get the system up and running again.
He unplugged Pumps 2 and 3 so there would be no issues with them trying to run.
So we have ONE pump working its hardest to get water flowing into our 80 someodd fish tanks.
Which means the water flow isn't that strong, but at least the tanks have access to fresh water.
We've also been advised to turn the system off as little as possible until the other two pumps can be fixed. As the constantly turning on and off of the system could be more strain on the remaining pump we have. (Good thing it's like...brand new right?)
But hey....at least we have flowing water.
So Woot!!!
Hopefully we can get priority so that all the parts we need will come in sooner rather than later.
Because having our fish system limping along....not fun.
It's also very stressful.
*fingers crossed*
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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