Yeah, there's no bubbles actually being produced in the water that's coming through the skimmer itself. I tried a DIY output mod just to try to eliminate some of the water noise/salt creep that occurs. Figuring that if the water coming out enters under the surface of the tank water, I'd eliminate much of the occasionally splashing. I just went to home depot and picked up a 90 degree and a 45 degree fitting and a short pieces of pipe and connected it so that it more or less looked exactly the same as the Deltec output mod that they sell. I think I may have to tweak the length of the pipe as perhaps I have it returning too deep into the tank thereby causing some strange flow issues. I notice that when the water was flowing out with the oem diffuser plate, the water level never got higher than the plate itself when I have the venturi set at 2 oclock. Now that I have the pipe, the water almost reaches the top of the output pipe. My guess is that it takes some energy to actually push the water down and out the pipe. I'm going to try to shorten it as much as possible and see how it goes.
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05-18-2009, 10:28 PM
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