Anyone ever make a self propelled rotating spray bar?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
If you were really wanting to use a rotating spraybar (ie, if the benefits are enough to justify this..) could you not have the water arrive first into a large mechanical media section of your sump, install an extra pump (yes, more power draw .... this is where the justification question comes into it :P) to pump from there up to your rotating spraybar to dump it all over your biomedia, and then back up to the tank? So it'd be:

Tank -> Mechanical Media to catch all the crud -> pump -> spray bar over bio media -> back into sump and through whatever else you want -> pump -> tank.

I personally dont think it'd be worth it.. but I dont see why it wouldnt work *shrugs*
 
Rethinking my previous post a bit... depending on how much water is required to turn these spraybars... Alot of people have a return line to the sump plumbed off of their tank return pump in order to allow them to control the flow. If your pump is sufficient to move enough water could this not be used to pump water to the spraybar?

So, to simplify things down to 3 chambers in the sump... First chamber is all mechanical to remove the crap; 2nd chamber is full to the brim with bioballs or whatever else you want, some will be submerged some not, with the spraybar over the top of it all --- might need to install something here (would only need to be a simple basket on legs or similar i imagine) to lift the bioballs out of the water; third chamber has your return pump with a T fitting & ball valve to divert some of the flow back to the spraybar....

Again ... In my mind it looks like it should work ... but feel free to rip me to shreds :)

-Dave
 
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