ATO help

[Rumjahn]

A Durso is designed to make your tank quieter, it will not be louder.

Water level in your sump will not "mimic" evaporation, it will decrease with evaporation. You will accomplish this by fixing your plumbing, which means you have to replace the slotted pipe with the solid one.

Right now, the situation in your tank is that the overflow wants to be at the level of the lowest slot on your slotted pipe. If you were to just leave it that way, then you will see the water evaporate from your sump, the way it's supposed to work. But you don't want to leave the water level in your overflow that low, because it is too loud. That's why you keep adding water to it. If you stop adding water to your overflow, you will see the water evaporate from your sump.

Right now you need to replace your slotted pipe with a solid one, which will quiet your overflow by raising the water level, and you will stop adding water to the overflow. When you do that, you will see water evaporate from your sump, and your system will be quiet.

 

[kylathwe]

I understand that with the solid pipe it will work now, but wouldn't it essentially sound the same as when it is at the lowest slits? Not only is it loud in my overflow because of the waterfall going down to the slits, but also the mixture of air and water is loud in my plumbing. Right now mine is completely silent because of the siphon.

I just keep hearing about a herbie and how mine is essentially a herbie without the emergency drain. Just wondering how those people "tune" their systems so it works correctly.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[eacosta]

You would need to close the valve enough so that the water "settling" point is 1-2" above the top of the pipe to create the siphon. However, by restricting the flow to that point is asking for trouble w/o the emergency overflow. When I shutdown and restart my pump, the water level rises by a couple inches to the emergency drain until the water settles back down to its normal level within a minute or so.

If you look closely, most quiet setups also include a 90 elbow on top pointing down to help create the full siphon.

 

[kylathwe]

Thank you