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UV Sterilizer

The “proper flow rate” is up for debate. I was surprised to see a lot of discussion of BAR folks running much lower flow than what i read in Aqua UV’s manual (link below). Yet they had no issue, apparently.

For my 25W I thought I needed to hit between 1200 and 800 gph.

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(https://aquaultraviolet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/UV-Charts-Salt-and-Fresh-Water-Web.pdf)

I picked up a 1,000 gph and it’s working at 500. I’m sticking with it and see no evidence of overdoing it.
 
It should be off whenever the pump is off - and the pump should have power usage protection by Apex as well. Also, I plumbed mine with the water inlets and outlets pointing slightly up, which means it’ll have some water in it even if the pump fails - to cool off the lamp until the Apex shuts it off
 
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