So I have a 240 I am in the process of setting up. I have a 70G sump and 2 holes per overflow (x2 boxes in my tank)
Per corner Overflow, I have (1) 1" and (1) 3/4" drilled holes (was already drilled and not brave enough to enlarge them)
I went ahead and connected the two overflows at the bottom by putting in a 1" bulkhead near the bottom of each and connected them so water levels should be somewhat balanced.
I will be returning water over the side of the tank via a spray bar.
I want max flow without running the risk of flooding my place (well as safe as possible but still moving a lot of water).
I was thinking:
Going straight-shot into sump for right-overflow via 1" using a submerged full siphon and using the 3/4" in that box as the highest drain in the system for a last line of defense (I may even wire up a contact for shutting off the pump if water goes down it.
In the other box, I would also use the 1" as a submerged drain with a nice spears gate to tune the system with the 3/4" in that box acting as my skimming pipe, in what you would find in a herbie set up.
So I would have two 1" drains under full Herbie style siphon (one of which would be tuned with a gate valve to maintain the water level in the overflow using that one 3/4" drain... with the other 3/4 drain being my true emergency drain. I realize that 3/4" is doing little to nothing if I get a clog in my fully open 1" line, but I would think the two 3/4" could support the half-way closed (via gate valve) 1" if it were to clog and I would assume this would be the more likely event to ever take place.
I have about a 24" drop and will be using 2" pipe in the overflows for all drains down to the bulkheads and expending back out to 1.5" going into the sump.
Any thoughts on how I could better pull this off and it still be near silent. I'm basing it off of the Herbie design, but with an extra emergency drain that should never get wet (unless xxxx is about to go South).
Obviously, I will prob meet closer in the middle for drains going into sump, but bare with me on my MSPAINT at work image... I do want the fully open 1" to be doing most of the heavy flow, so I will try to keep that one pretty close to straight down.
I also expect to get some pretty good flow through that balancing pipe, going towards the fully open 1" so I could prob put some bio balls in the sumps as well since I will get constant water movement in the overflows, good idea?
I have a beast of a pump, a Laguna Max-Flow 4280.. and will probably have to put a valve on the output to reduce it some... just trying to get some good water movement... and not flood my house
I'm new to wet-drys in terms of DIY, so please help me if you have any ideas. As I said, max-flow and silence are what I am looking for, as long as I can have some confidence that I won't flood my place. Does the relay/contact sound like a good idea, as it would be easy to wire for me and I could even prob wire up a rasberry pi to monitor for that event to send out an email alert.
Per corner Overflow, I have (1) 1" and (1) 3/4" drilled holes (was already drilled and not brave enough to enlarge them)
I went ahead and connected the two overflows at the bottom by putting in a 1" bulkhead near the bottom of each and connected them so water levels should be somewhat balanced.
I will be returning water over the side of the tank via a spray bar.
I want max flow without running the risk of flooding my place (well as safe as possible but still moving a lot of water).
I was thinking:
Going straight-shot into sump for right-overflow via 1" using a submerged full siphon and using the 3/4" in that box as the highest drain in the system for a last line of defense (I may even wire up a contact for shutting off the pump if water goes down it.
In the other box, I would also use the 1" as a submerged drain with a nice spears gate to tune the system with the 3/4" in that box acting as my skimming pipe, in what you would find in a herbie set up.
So I would have two 1" drains under full Herbie style siphon (one of which would be tuned with a gate valve to maintain the water level in the overflow using that one 3/4" drain... with the other 3/4 drain being my true emergency drain. I realize that 3/4" is doing little to nothing if I get a clog in my fully open 1" line, but I would think the two 3/4" could support the half-way closed (via gate valve) 1" if it were to clog and I would assume this would be the more likely event to ever take place.
I have about a 24" drop and will be using 2" pipe in the overflows for all drains down to the bulkheads and expending back out to 1.5" going into the sump.
Any thoughts on how I could better pull this off and it still be near silent. I'm basing it off of the Herbie design, but with an extra emergency drain that should never get wet (unless xxxx is about to go South).
Obviously, I will prob meet closer in the middle for drains going into sump, but bare with me on my MSPAINT at work image... I do want the fully open 1" to be doing most of the heavy flow, so I will try to keep that one pretty close to straight down.
I also expect to get some pretty good flow through that balancing pipe, going towards the fully open 1" so I could prob put some bio balls in the sumps as well since I will get constant water movement in the overflows, good idea?
I have a beast of a pump, a Laguna Max-Flow 4280.. and will probably have to put a valve on the output to reduce it some... just trying to get some good water movement... and not flood my house
I'm new to wet-drys in terms of DIY, so please help me if you have any ideas. As I said, max-flow and silence are what I am looking for, as long as I can have some confidence that I won't flood my place. Does the relay/contact sound like a good idea, as it would be easy to wire for me and I could even prob wire up a rasberry pi to monitor for that event to send out an email alert.
