|
|
|
|
|
#2
05-13-2004, 03:22 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
A closed loop is a means of creating current by using an external pump. So your input(s) of the pump and the output(s) of the pump are in the same body of water, hence it is a "closed" loop (as opposed to something like a sump return, which is "lifting" water and hence "not" a closed loop).
HTH 
__________________
-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee! 
|
|
#4
06-02-2004, 06:51 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Well I hate to say it but after three or four really bone head moves I now hate my planed overflow/return system. I should have listened to you all. So I'm going to build a simple return and the side holes are going to be converted into a closed loop. It's going to rain all week end anyway. I wonder if I'll ever get livestock in it
 Jason
|
|
#5
06-03-2004, 06:27 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Why would you not put a T in the return line outside the tank with a riser to above the water level. Then put a breather valve on the riser. These are basically check valves that allow air into the pipe but no water out. They are designed to be siphon breaks in drain systems.
so it basically looks like this: Riser & breather valve | |--- To bulkhead | from pump
|
Hybrid Mode
