Thought I'll also Copy the Surge Tank from my Concrete tank thread to a thread under Pumps and waterflow to maybe show someonewho is searching here:
So I decided to close my eyes and built a surge device. Because of the amount of water going to enter the tank/sump at once, I did what one of the members suggested- Build 02 tanks...
I went searching for a square bucket the last couple of days with a thicker wall thickness as the normal buckets you get. Needless to say, I could not find any, so decided to see the people that built me the "Refugium/Bigger overflow".
01 Bucket 550mm in height, 350mm in with and length further and I walked out having to Fork out R416.00. Nearly flipped over but decided to leave it at that. Damage was done already. Spend another couple of Hundred Bucks on Pipes, Fittings, wall Brackets, glue etc and started assembling everything yesterday. I must mention that I did work out the Flow' pipesizes, pumps size etc last week already and did a rough sketch in my dairy.
So I only had to follow the Sketch right. Boy was I wrong. Completely forgot about height and after redoing everything today, decided to finish all and "Install" it. So I just finished and I must say that it works wonderful. Will definately add another "Surge Tnk" next weekend.
Photos to follow... The air inside the main display is because I closed the airvalve for you guys to see how the "Surge" works.
Oh yes, and I first tested it outside today:
The Bucket and the Fittings:
Inside and Outside to show the pipe depth:
So I decided to close my eyes and built a surge device. Because of the amount of water going to enter the tank/sump at once, I did what one of the members suggested- Build 02 tanks...
I went searching for a square bucket the last couple of days with a thicker wall thickness as the normal buckets you get. Needless to say, I could not find any, so decided to see the people that built me the "Refugium/Bigger overflow".
01 Bucket 550mm in height, 350mm in with and length further and I walked out having to Fork out R416.00. Nearly flipped over but decided to leave it at that. Damage was done already. Spend another couple of Hundred Bucks on Pipes, Fittings, wall Brackets, glue etc and started assembling everything yesterday. I must mention that I did work out the Flow' pipesizes, pumps size etc last week already and did a rough sketch in my dairy.
So I only had to follow the Sketch right. Boy was I wrong. Completely forgot about height and after redoing everything today, decided to finish all and "Install" it. So I just finished and I must say that it works wonderful. Will definately add another "Surge Tnk" next weekend.
Photos to follow... The air inside the main display is because I closed the airvalve for you guys to see how the "Surge" works.
Oh yes, and I first tested it outside today:
The Bucket and the Fittings:
Inside and Outside to show the pipe depth: