A worm drive and a small freezer with timers may work. If you rinse the food and put it in RO water and make ice cubes then use the worm drive with a trap door to dispense one cube at a time.
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A worm drive and a small freezer with timers may work. If you rinse the food and put it in RO water and make ice cubes then use the worm drive with a trap door to dispense one cube at a time.
jnarowe
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I would like it to work with those common sized fish food cubes and basically I think the work drive may be the way to go. But I would like to meter it to the number of cubes fed at whatever intervals. Also, I want th efood to be thawed when it goes into the tank so it won't float and go through the overflow.
dhnguyen
Pain In The Arse
Hmm... So what if you canibalized a fridge and use its icemaker and put it on a timer. Could even use the ice dispenser for the feeding. Crushed ice fish food anyone? :lol:
jnarowe
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that probably wouldn't work...well maybe the way you cannibalize stuff! 
And speaking of that, I may have a volunteer since my $1800 fridge just started squirting water. I think the water line froze inside it. :roll:
And speaking of that, I may have a volunteer since my $1800 fridge just started squirting water. I think the water line froze inside it. :roll:
I came up with the patent pending preliminary drawing for The Automatic Frozen Food Dispenser. Hope you guys like it. It is a do-able concept.
Chad
jnarowe
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:lol: sweet drawing Chad. You know that won't work right? I think it's interesting to coral the food and let it thaw that way though. My original thought was to dispense the cube(s) into a container of RO/DI, allow them to melt, and using servos, empty it into a net. On a time delay, the net would then swing out over the tank and flip upside down. The waste water could just go into a bucket.
jnarowe
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:lol: Can't have that! I don't really re-wash it, but I do thaw it in tank water with vitamins and drain, but I just had a beer and pondered your design some more. In theory since I pack the food with vitamins when I prepare it, perhaps an in-tank thawing would be OK...the problem would be dispersing it when thawed and of course, the feeding tube clogging.
I feed with ALL pumps on so that every fish has an easy time of getting food. The trouble with feeding "stations" is that the most agressive fish get all the food.
I feed with ALL pumps on so that every fish has an easy time of getting food. The trouble with feeding "stations" is that the most agressive fish get all the food.
salmonslayer
UP ALL NIGHT
Enough talking guys lets get this bad boy into production. Ready for the first test model. Did you say your putting BEER if the food, if so i'll take a few batches :razz::razz:
dhnguyen
Pain In The Arse
I am telling ya. The ice dispenser with crushed ice will probably work for this. The food in the form of crushed ice will make it easily dispersible as well as easy thawing.
Untill it freezes into one solid block on the bottom of the freezer. It would also be hard to monitor amounts. My icecube shoot would need a larger mass in order to utilize a "gravity feed". No pun intended:razz:
jnarowe
Beer-a-holic
Plenty of vitamins in beer. I don't see a problem there.
jnarowe
Beer-a-holic
I don't think so. I think she is a mean drunk. Probably homicidal after just one beer.
salmonslayer
UP ALL NIGHT
LMAO :lol::lol::lol: you guys are so funny
jnarowe
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I am funny. Chad is funny looking. :eek2:
jnarowe
Beer-a-holic
That won't work. Hey, PM me an email address and I send you a real design. :lol:
dhnguyen
Pain In The Arse
