Glove
11/03/2006, 11:23 PM
I purchased a Sequence ReefFlo Dart Water Pump and (2) 3/4" swirls used. I know for a fact the dart pump was only powering the 2 swirls. Now the max gph for each swirl is 850gph and that pump puts out 3600.
So I pop over to the head loss calculator and play around with some different diameter pipe, and head loss.
I assume the sequence dart is the sequence 3600 seq12?
I found if I have a 5 feet of 3/4" pipe (my tank is 6 ft long) delivering water to the swirls with 3 90's and zero verticle head (pump sets behind tank at the same level as the bottom of the tank), 2 pipe exits, one entrance, and 1 coupling (wich is really a "T" so that will restrict even more, yes?)
This give me 1072 GPH
I will be reducing 1.5" outputs down to 3/4". Is there a certian way to do this? Right now its reduced after a "Y" directly after the pump and is set up to use flex hose.
I want to remove the "Y" and install a 2" 90 then a 2" "T" then reduce down to 3/4 right befor the swirls.
I dont want to pull the water from the sump to the pump the to the swirls, I would prefer to "somehow' tap into the acrylic tank and do a closed loop.
Now I have two overflows in each corner of my 11" deep tank. Each has a 1" bulkhead in the bottom and a durso pipe standing up. I think there room to drill a hole in the very back of the overflow box (rear of the tank) and install a 1.5-2" bulkhead to pull water to the pump. What size bulk head on each end would supply the pump with no problem?
lol.. thats really confusing. I will snap some pics and give a better visual.
I have a 3600gph pump that I want to run 2 3/4" swirls from. Maybe 3 swirls. I dont want to blow seals. My only optin for suplying the pump is drilling into my overflows and I am not sure a 6x6x11 box will feed a 1200gph MAIN pump AND a 3600gph dart to feed the swirls. I guess I might try cutting teeth off the overflow if it gets sucked dry.
So I pop over to the head loss calculator and play around with some different diameter pipe, and head loss.
I assume the sequence dart is the sequence 3600 seq12?
I found if I have a 5 feet of 3/4" pipe (my tank is 6 ft long) delivering water to the swirls with 3 90's and zero verticle head (pump sets behind tank at the same level as the bottom of the tank), 2 pipe exits, one entrance, and 1 coupling (wich is really a "T" so that will restrict even more, yes?)
This give me 1072 GPH
I will be reducing 1.5" outputs down to 3/4". Is there a certian way to do this? Right now its reduced after a "Y" directly after the pump and is set up to use flex hose.
I want to remove the "Y" and install a 2" 90 then a 2" "T" then reduce down to 3/4 right befor the swirls.
I dont want to pull the water from the sump to the pump the to the swirls, I would prefer to "somehow' tap into the acrylic tank and do a closed loop.
Now I have two overflows in each corner of my 11" deep tank. Each has a 1" bulkhead in the bottom and a durso pipe standing up. I think there room to drill a hole in the very back of the overflow box (rear of the tank) and install a 1.5-2" bulkhead to pull water to the pump. What size bulk head on each end would supply the pump with no problem?
lol.. thats really confusing. I will snap some pics and give a better visual.
I have a 3600gph pump that I want to run 2 3/4" swirls from. Maybe 3 swirls. I dont want to blow seals. My only optin for suplying the pump is drilling into my overflows and I am not sure a 6x6x11 box will feed a 1200gph MAIN pump AND a 3600gph dart to feed the swirls. I guess I might try cutting teeth off the overflow if it gets sucked dry.