ENCOUNTER SOME PROLEMS:
ENCOUNTER SOME PROLEMS:
I know my luck can’t hold out forever…anyway, I encounter some problems in my design !!
When I design my overflow, I didn’t make separate compartment for each of my sections (wavebox, pumps, pipe, etc) as I thought it won’t matter as I’m able to control the level of the water in my overflow and can have a wider weir for surface skimming …my..my…my, what a mistake…!! :furious:
Now, the problem is the water enters obviously 1st from the hole drilled for the pumps and I have to increase flows to raise it over the weir….
However, this causes my overflow water to go higher, and my HGB is not draining fast enough as the holes drilled are too small and the stand is too low. I have to now redo my HGB and raise it to the same level of the weir and drill plenty more holes tomorrow…
This leads to another problem - once I raise the water level for my overflow with the new HGB, the wavebox will be submerge underwater â€"œ after much thinking, I’m going to make an acyclic extension for the top of the wavebox next week so that the top will still be above water (making the wavebox box taller)
Guys, what do you think?? Will it work?? I’m hoping it will as I don’t want to redo my whole overflow as this will cause more delay….. :sad1:
Apart from that, my return pump works very well, very silence for such a large pump but a little too strong for my sump as the water is like a little waterfall in there…!! Anyway, this is also because I have not feed it to the skimmer and my MPT yet so temporary reduce the output flow a little for the time being…
Also found a few minor leaks on some of the unions (didn’t tighten enough) â€"œ no major leak found yet… :hmm2:
You can see from the 2 above picture, I have to reduce the water level to the height of my current HGB so the current water is NOT going over my weir…!!
Anyway, will leave it running for 24 hours and check for leaks tomorrow.
:worried:
