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Robin Hood: Sewage Treatment Expert

Our Servicing Engineer Rob was embracing his inner Robin Hood this week with a visit to a property in Nottinghamshire! Less a heroic outlaw and more a sewage treatment specialist, Rob was nevertheless ready to answer the call when our customer needed a replacement alarm for their Klargester BioDisc.

Our customer has disguised their treatment system behind a wooden fence in their garden, but needed the new alarm to be visible from the house so they could spot the flashing beacon if anything was amiss. Rob swiftly dug a trench for the new loss of rotation alarm cable – the loss of rotation alarm in the Klargester BioDisc operates by a reed switch mounted on the internal discs and a separate magnet which attaches to the side of the tank. As the discs rotate, the switch and magnet (commonly known as the sender and receiver), connect briefly. If the discs were to stop rotating for any reason, the connection between magnet and switch would not occur and therefore the alarm would activate and the beacon would flash.

Rob installed hard-wearing steel wire armoured cable to power the loss of rotation alarm, connected the cable to the control panel (which will display a specific fault code if the alarm is activated) and then mounted the low-voltage beacon on the fence post.

All that was left was to test the alarm was functioning correctly, fill in the trench and give the system a full service and check over, so that it is now running at maximum efficiency. No job is too small for the RA Dalton’s band of merry men (and women) – get in touch on 01388 537030!

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Andrea Stephenson .