tank overflow prevention?

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Originally Posted by cwickham

water doesnt have to flow back into the tank as fast as its pumped up, you can restrict it to find a good balance between over flow and the perfect level.



I agree with all of you that restricting the overflow is a dangerous game, and eventaully will get clogged. I think im just going to build an electronic shut off. water gets to high for any reason, pump turns off, water drains out pump turns back on. Probably be the easyiest solution.

thanks for all your comments

Seems a lot easier just to make a two standpipe Herbie, sort out a Durso or other, or even just reducing the flow into to tank. As for electronic control, switches etc fail and still might come back to a flood or if you loose flow long enough to a dead tank.