It’s funny that we keep dozens to hundreds of gallons of water in our houses and think nothing of it.What keep me up at night is wake up or return home and walk into a flooded living room from a failed tank or equipment.
It’s funny that we keep dozens to hundreds of gallons of water in our houses and think nothing of it.What keep me up at night is wake up or return home and walk into a flooded living room from a failed tank or equipment.
If your big tanks are located in the basement, little to worry. But if they are located in the living space, there are reasons to be concerned.It’s funny that we keep dozens to hundreds of gallons of water in our houses and think nothing of it.
Majority flooding accidents can be traced to part human errors and part equipment. After you clean your canister or AC, if you don’t check to ensure there is no leak from the O ring before going to sleep. If flooding occurs when you wake up, it’s largely human error. But if the equipment has no O ring to handle with, there is zero chance for human error. If unexpectedly your tank seam leak spontaneously, that’s purely equipment fault you have no control of.Yeah most of those are operator error related it seems. Especially that last one. Air pumps must go overhead always.
“Prone to clog” sounds like a design deficiencies, but in reality an indication of the mechanical efficiency in catching fines. AC foam has much larger porosity than normal sponge filter to allow high gph but also fines to pass through, so it takes longer time to get clogged up. A partially clogged foam is more effective than clean foam to catch fines. A clogging foam, however, will be lift by buoyancy allowing water to leak around the block, paradoxically to last longer. Many overflow accidents are due to popped up foam block dripping over and users error not to clean promptly. When cartridge style HOBs get clogged, it won’t pop up but can shrink and leak around the edges. When my cartridge lasts longer than usual, 9 out of 10 times when I pulled it up, I found leakage. So a long lasting cartridge isn’t an indicator of mechanical effectiveness, but the opposite.Still gonna have to insist the AC is way less prone to clogs than the penguin.
The basket for the AC110 has small hooks that prevent the sponge from moving upwards. I have personally never had an issue with replacing the bio ring or carbon section with filter floss to increase mechanical capacity. As long as filter floss is kept under the return overflow to the tank there is no possibility of a leak, unless one of the failure prone o-rings goMajority flooding accidents can be traced to part human errors and part equipment. After you clean your canister or AC, if you don’t check to ensure there is no leak from the O ring before going to sleep. If flooding occurs when you wake up, it’s largely human error. But if the equipment has no O ring to handle with, there is zero chance for human error. If unexpectedly your tank seam leak spontaneously, that’s purely equipment fault you have no control of.
“Prone to clog” sounds like a design deficiencies, but in reality an indication of the mechanical efficiency in catching fines. AC foam has much larger porosity than normal sponge filter to allow high gph but also fines to pass through, so it takes longer time to get clogged up. A partially clogged foam is more effective than clean foam to catch fines. A clogging foam, however, will be lift by buoyancy allowing water to leak around the block, paradoxically to last longer. Many overflow accidents are due to popped up foam block dripping over and users error not to clean promptly. When cartridge style HOBs get clogged, it won’t pop up but can shrink and leak around the edges. When my cartridge lasts longer than usual, 9 out of 10 times when I pulled it up, I found leakage. So a long lasting cartridge isn’t an indicator of mechanical effectiveness, but the opposite.
Honestly I took some time last night to listen to my filters and I could hardly hear them over the refrigerator....I have ran them with 2 sponges as well. But not for many years.
Yes, I agree to them not being silent. But my hearing isn't what it used to be, so the bit of noise they make is not an issue to me personally. lol I also have canopies on all of my tanks that run AC's, so it knocks the noise down a few levels as well. With 8 AC 500's running in the same room, no one has ever complained about the noise.