tried making an inductor for MJ1200

[kwirky]

Bored and broke tonight, so I dug through various stuff I had kicking around and thought about making an inductor for a maxijet 1200.

made it with a 3/4" threaded plug, a piece of 3/4" pvc pipe, and a peice of 1/4" flex tubing. used a dremel and superglue.

I used this chart here to help in it's design, but I couldn't quite figure out exactly how to read it: http://www.kthsales.com/website/Misc...ow%20rates.pdf

information on the MJ1200 here: http://www.reefs.org/library/pumps/pumps/mj1200.html

It didn't even give equal flow to the maxijet with nothing attached to it. I'm suspecting it's one, or a combination of the three:

1. the maxijet can't provide enough head pressure
2. the 1/4" flex tubing gives too small a hole
3. the cut out area of the 3/4" pvc pipe is too large

Any suggestions on how to make it work? I'm thinking of making one using 2" pvc pipe, and using piping the same diameter as the MJ output for the "nozzle". I'm pretty sure the ammount of cut-out area is very important to make it work.

I think it would be cool to turn a $30 pump into an induction pump without having to take it apart and put a model boat prop in it .