So looking to see if you guys can poke holes, or find a failure within my system I did for my duel overflow system on my 175 tank.
Basically I hard piped my tank for duel Durso drains but it didn't work out. It was just to loud with the amount of flow I wanted to go through my tank. So I decided to do some trial and error to see if I could find something that worked for me.
I couldn't do duel Herbies on one overflow side because it was already hard piped plus I was worried about the stagnate water on the other overflow because nothing would be draining. So I put the main Herbie drain on the left side and the emergency Herbie on the right side. One thing I don't like about the Herbie method is how fine you have to adjust it to be perfect, plus I didn't have a gate valve, only a ball. So I wanted the right side to drain some of the water so didn't just sit in the overflow box. Well, with a slight drain on the emergency side it was still noisy! So I though what about if I make the emergency drain a durso drain to muffle the noisy, brilliant idea!
So now the tank drains perfect with out all the slight adjustments needed. I also drilled a small hole in the durso drain so that a small amount of water in the durso is always draining out, thus keeping it moving. The last issue was that a durso drain can't handle the full flow if the primary drain gets block right? Well it works out perfect because the baffles in my sump limits the amount of water that can be pumped into the tank. So as the primary get block that baffle with the main pump drains out and can't overflow the tank. Also the float sensor detects the water is low and then will cut the pump off thus saving the pump from burning up.
Anybody see any major failures with this system I have sent up?
Basically I hard piped my tank for duel Durso drains but it didn't work out. It was just to loud with the amount of flow I wanted to go through my tank. So I decided to do some trial and error to see if I could find something that worked for me.
I couldn't do duel Herbies on one overflow side because it was already hard piped plus I was worried about the stagnate water on the other overflow because nothing would be draining. So I put the main Herbie drain on the left side and the emergency Herbie on the right side. One thing I don't like about the Herbie method is how fine you have to adjust it to be perfect, plus I didn't have a gate valve, only a ball. So I wanted the right side to drain some of the water so didn't just sit in the overflow box. Well, with a slight drain on the emergency side it was still noisy! So I though what about if I make the emergency drain a durso drain to muffle the noisy, brilliant idea!
So now the tank drains perfect with out all the slight adjustments needed. I also drilled a small hole in the durso drain so that a small amount of water in the durso is always draining out, thus keeping it moving. The last issue was that a durso drain can't handle the full flow if the primary drain gets block right? Well it works out perfect because the baffles in my sump limits the amount of water that can be pumped into the tank. So as the primary get block that baffle with the main pump drains out and can't overflow the tank. Also the float sensor detects the water is low and then will cut the pump off thus saving the pump from burning up.
Anybody see any major failures with this system I have sent up?
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