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Originally Posted by Delphinus
Tim, on a beckett skimmer the valves on the output is just to help adjust where you want your water/foam interface in the reaction tube. Depending on the pump you use, how high your skimmer is in relation to the water your pumping out of, and so on, you need to fine-tune this. The foam production can be a little finicky, i.e., if you feed the tank or even so much as put your hand in the water for a minute, the oils will disrupt the foam production and it can take as long as a few hours to start producing foam again. So because of this it's easy to overset the foam, then you come back in a few hours and the skimmer is spewing water all over the place. If you have an auto-shutoff collector then at least you haven't drained your tank.
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Got it. Thanks for the info. Also confirms that I will be sticking with this skimmer for quite a while.