O.C.'s Pellet questions and answers!

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Parker

No, no you can't! Not because I don't want to show you but because it isn't fully built yet. When I plumed the tank I added a tee and a valve to the return plumbing for future implemention of a manifold to run everything. Because the tank is so lightly stocked I haven't had a need to finish it yet, but will be shortly.

You can see the tee and valve in the upper right hand side of the picture.

Ok so, my next question is, are you running 1.5" pipe? How are you going to "ramp down" to the size required for your reactor? Would you do that at the barb fitting? I'm just wondering where along the line should I start to reduce plumbing sizes since my phosban reactor is 3/8"

[Parker]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Ok so, my next question is, are you running 1.5" pipe? How are you going to "ramp down" to the size required for your reactor? Would you do that at the barb fitting? I'm just wondering where along the line should I start to reduce plumbing sizes since my phosban reactor is 3/8"

I've reduced from 1.5" to 1" with a bushing before the ball valve. I'll build the manifold out of 1" using 1" gate valves and then reduce as nessacary on the output of the gate valve. This way I'll still have higher flow for larger items such as the reactors needed for the pellets and I can reduce down to 1/4" if needed for lower flow applications, ie: calc. reactors.

I wish I would have put a valve upstream of the tee to reduce the flow to the tank and increase to the manifold if needed, I can retrofit later if needed.