Built-in and quiet ATS?

[crn005]

Hopefully we are talking about the same thing.. cause if not - that might not make any sense. LOL.

Haha I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing but I definitely understand where you're coming from. The design I'm talking about is a screen that is sewed into another screen that wraps around the PVC and is then sewed into the main sheets as well. The loop allows the water to be introduced by the screen and not the slot. You can just make a bunch of holes in the pipe instead of the slot. It seems like it will fix a lot of the problems that people have with their slots.

The pump I have in there is adjustable, so that is one way to control the amount of water going over the baffle.

That's a much better design than what I suggested. You will have much more control over flow with a little closed loop system.

 

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Haha I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing but I definitely understand where you're coming from. The design I'm talking about is a screen that is sewed into another screen that wraps around the PVC and is then sewed into the main sheets as well. The loop allows the water to be introduced by the screen and not the slot. You can just make a bunch of holes in the pipe instead of the slot. It seems like it will fix a lot of the problems that people have with their slots.

I actually did try something like that. It did pretty much work. It was a box with the light (encased by water tight acrylic) was inserted down in between two screens. My water was introduced by two pipes that had holes like what you describe and introduced flow this way instead of the slotted pipe. The screens were suspended down into the box through slots in the roof of the box via a 1/2" CPVC pipes that I cut long wise just to grip the screens and stop them from falling down into the box. I ended up scrapping the whole project because it was an above tank implementation and too many bubbles ended up in display for my taste. So I ended up doing a simple in-sump implementation expecting to transition to the UAS eventually. IF the UAS doesn't prove to keep up, I'll probably try something along these lines or waterfall design again.