When 6ft Tanks go really wrong ! ;-)

[Gallandro]

Cut the new pipe in and U bend quick and its OK ..

 

[areze]

that sump is gonna explode isnt it? a pressurized sump? that thing should have as much pressure as a 5' tall tank. and it looks to be some damn thin glass... thats my guess!

 

[Gallandro]

well areze .....

 

[Gallandro]

Here it is in full flow working ...

 

[Gallandro]

Pumps buzzed a bit but we put some of the spong for under tanks under then and trimmed it off .. sorted.

 

[Gallandro]

All back together .. its been a long afternoon, its 10:30 pm now, so we got back to our girls and watch a movie .. a quick check on the tank at midnight, and me and the missis are off home ....

 

[Gallandro]

COME ON, ADMIT IT .. WHO'S BEEN FOLLOWING THIS THREAD AS IVE BEEN POSTIG IT FOR THE LAST FEW HOURS ? ILL POST THE END LATER TONIGHT OR MAYBE MAKE YOU WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW...

 

[wahshk]

Nice tank... I don't see a problem so far

 

[Gallandro]

aaaww thats babies a real cute one ..

 

[MarkS]

COME ON, ADMIT IT .. WHO'S BEEN FOLLOWING THIS THREAD AS IVE BEEN POSTIG IT FOR THE LAST FEW HOURS ? ILL POST THE END LATER TONIGHT OR MAYBE MAKE YOU WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW...

I'd just like to see some pics...

 

[Gallandro]

Its 3am in the morning and I get a call from my freind ... Bring all your towls and RO ! its all gone wrong ! . . .

 

[Gallandro]

BANG !

 

[Gallandro]

After I left he decided not to trust it over night. So he shut off the outlets to stop the flow ... BUT the pumps were still on trying to force water into the sump. The presure made it explode....

 

[Gallandro]

I expect about 150 gallons of water came out of the tank and into the room and floor. Luckly we have a healthy RO production plant !.. by the time I got there, lots of towels had been used and a small heater to sort thing out.

 

[ich_commando]

some one called that....ouch

maybe you should have trusted an overflow....

Besides the exploding sump, the tank looks really nice. I hope nothing was lost in the disaster.

 

[Gallandro]

happy ending ish .. the tank was qucly filled and just felt like it had a large water change, and the Canisters were left out ond the nitrates stabalised.. The sump saw the skip ...

 

[guybirch]

Being engineers you both should have known better...

Lucky that you seemed to have gotten away with it.

 

[Gallandro]

I know .. .. ah well ..

We can laugh about it now, this was all 18 months ago ..

The tank want on a bigger journy .. my freind left England and went to Germany .. the tank went with him ... its now thriving over there.

 

[areze]

heh actually though it didnt quite go down as id have expected. the pump pushing water in was countered by the head on the other side of the system; leading to a continuous pressure in the sump. it was about 5 or 6' of pressure. suprised it held up as is and didnt blow till the valve was shut off.

 

[Gallandro]

We did actually make a Mark 2 with a small nozzle with an airline going to the top of the tank. Any changes in presure and the line made sucking or blowing nosies lol .. did last to long, anfter that the tank went to Germany.