durso question
 

My overflow box is drilled for 1.5" pvc, do I make the durso out of 1.5" or should i use a reducer and do it in 1"? also there are 2 holes, do i make 2 durso's?

Is this tank from me?

yup the tank i had picked up sunday

Durso's work better if they are a 1/4" larger than the bulkhead.

lets see some super sweet albert drawings

Hah, those holes aren't for Durso's.

I'll dig up the original Super Wicked Bangin' Awesome Cool drawings later.

Ya Derso's need to be Larger than the bulkhead

J

don't use durso's then? why wouldn't the drain holes in the overflow be for a durso? I don't want a loud overflow.

If Alberts plan was the "Silent" or "Herbie" system you are getting the best/quietest system out there.. IMO. :wink:

cool...somebody teach me!!! i need to know so I can buy the parts ;)

I think Albert is digging up his wicked-e-wick drawings for you. :mrgreen:

wonder where he is digging them up from. c'mon Albert, help me out!

I have all the parts in the trunk of my car...

Anyway, just got home and I gotta hit the sack (school).

I couldn't find my wicked pimp drawings from before so I'll whip up a new one for you during *snicker* class tommorow.

Oh, awesome! The post was conveniently on the first page of the RC equipment section:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=344892

Sorry Joel, no super sweet, orgasmic, mega-crazy wicked Albert drawing for you, but I'm sure you'll be fine. Worse comes to worse, I have all the plumbing you'll need in my car.

Now what are you going to do in class tomorrow Albert? :razz:

I've never seen this before....looks pretty ingenious.

I will never go back to the Durso method after using this method. :wink:

aww i was excited to see the drawings! but thanks for the link! i'm going to try and get out for the parts, i'll let ya know if I need em from you.

what about just putting a lid on the overflow? I used a lid on the hang-on and it was quiet at full flow.

You could do whatever with it, but the tank is built for the Herbie and doing anything else really puts that to waste. A huge, and often overlooked, benefit of this style is that it produces no bubbles in your sump. This equates to zero sump noise and less evap and salt spray.

oh ya, but from what i read there is a lot of messing around to get it right? got any pics or diagrams? i'm not sure which way to do it...

Herbie's way less messing around than a durso (no drills involved to tune)

Its stupid simple, 1 bulkhead becomes your primary drain, add a grill or leave open - near where that line enters your sump - add a valve, preferably a gate valve. That second bulkhead - is now your emergency overflow, add a standpipe in the overflow, make it tall enough so that it's about as high as you'd want the water to run. Straight run to the sump with that (no valves).

start'er up - take that valve on the primary drain, crank her down until water level is stable in the overflow.

Thats official rule - I crank mine down so that just a trickle's going down the emergency overflow, less fiddly when done that way I find.

I have one bulkhead, and a noisy drain. My idea was to put a ball valve on the drain, so the pipe doesn't need to suck air. After discussing with my LFS, I decided not to, as a snail or something else clogging the ball valve would be a disaster. The Herbie method gets around that problem really well, and I'd love to try it. Wish I had known about this when I set-up, I would have installed two bulkheads!

cool ok i'll do the herbie method..sounds simple enough.. anyone got a gate valve? ;)