Christy's 180 build

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by JDigital

I remember a build thread somewhere on RC where someone did that. Covered the front ends of the tank with the wall, gave quite a cool effect when looking in as it looks wider than in appears at first glance.. If you know what I mean... I'll try and find it (like a needle in a hay stack)

Ooh that would be cool

[christyf5]

So today I came home from work, to this:





Wheeee!!!!!

[Lance]

Excellent!
Husbands sure are special aren't they?........................... I tell my wife this all the time.

[lastlight]

Haha too true. We almost deserve merit badges for some of the things we do. That's looking great!

[Jason McK]

WOW Congrate Matt Looks Great


J

[Borderjumper]

Wow.. Matts gonna get sum tonight!

[christyf5]

So I've been working on this for the last half hour. Somehow I thought the plumbing would be more complex and I needed to ask you guys your opinions. Turns out its pretty simple but I'm posting my fantastic art anyways.

Yeah MS Paint!

[Jason McK]

Ya it's fairly straight forward. You could be like me and over complicate it to the point of ridiculousness, but that usually doesn't work well

Do you need all 3600GPH from the Dart? If not you could build a manifold like CProwler to drive Phosban reactors, CA Reactors, Skimmer or what ever

[Delphinus]

I would move the beefier union to the inlet side of the Dart. Plus I like how you have stepped up the pipe diameter from the sump to the pump inlet. Clever thinking!

You may wish to find a smaller Wavysea though. That thing is taking up WAY too much space in your display!

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

Ya it's fairly straight forward. You could be like me and over complicate it to the point of ridiculousness, but that usually doesn't work well

Do you need all 3600GPH from the Dart? If not you could build a manifold like CProwler to drive Phosban reactors, CA Reactors, Skimmer or what ever

Well I don't have 17 holes in my tank, just the one

No I don't need all the gph from the dart, I just figured what with the 20km of pipe from the dart to the tank I wouldn't end up with much gph left.

That manifold is pretty sweet actually. However, I like everything to run on individual pumps, I use more electricity and put more heat into the tank that way. Besides, frankly that thing looks too complex for me