d2mini
Premium Member
I don't really need my chiller running yet but wanted to get it plumbed in to the new build while i was doing everything else. But I'm having a weird problem, that I am thinking may have to do with physics that I just don't understand but wanted to run it by joo guyzzz.
So in the past I always had my chiller fed by a Tee off the return line.
Then the output line from the chiller emptied back to the sump.
This time I was trying to make the plumbing a little cleaner so what I did was install a Y fitting on the return line right after the pump. Ran a short length of plumbing to the chiller. Then I ran a short length of plumbing from the chiller's output into another Y maybe 2 feet from the first Y.
So it's basically like being on the freeway, merging off on to the feeder road for a minute, then merging back on to the freeway on the very next entrance ramp.
My problem is that i can see through a small piece of clear tubing at the chiller that very little water is flowing through, like next to nothing. So I'm assuming that something about the way i have it plumbed is creating some kind of restriction, or for some reason the water just doesn't want to flow through that first Y into the chiller?
Any ideas?
I was really trying to avoid having a whole other line of pvc running all the way back to my sump. I thought getting the water back into the return line would be a lot cleaner and it would go right back to the display tank.
So in the past I always had my chiller fed by a Tee off the return line.
Then the output line from the chiller emptied back to the sump.
This time I was trying to make the plumbing a little cleaner so what I did was install a Y fitting on the return line right after the pump. Ran a short length of plumbing to the chiller. Then I ran a short length of plumbing from the chiller's output into another Y maybe 2 feet from the first Y.
So it's basically like being on the freeway, merging off on to the feeder road for a minute, then merging back on to the freeway on the very next entrance ramp.
My problem is that i can see through a small piece of clear tubing at the chiller that very little water is flowing through, like next to nothing. So I'm assuming that something about the way i have it plumbed is creating some kind of restriction, or for some reason the water just doesn't want to flow through that first Y into the chiller?
Any ideas?
I was really trying to avoid having a whole other line of pvc running all the way back to my sump. I thought getting the water back into the return line would be a lot cleaner and it would go right back to the display tank.