![]() ![]() Please help me out and feel free to give ideas if you have some. My main question is, will the normal tee cause a problem in my design or will it be ok the way it is? BeanAnimal's design handled 2000 gph of flow, I'm sure mine can handle 600 but i wanted to make sure. These are the three most common water drain technologies you will see used on an aquarium. Durso, Herbie, and BeanAnimal refer to the drain plumbing itself inside the overflow box. My return will be an eheim 1260 (635 gph) though a 3/4" pvc ending with a 1/2" locline with about 4ft. An overflow box can be internal or external meaning the box is either inside the aquarium or outside the aquarium. I'm using 200psi sch40 1" pvc in the standpipe so it actually has an inner diameter close to (if not the exact same) that of 1.25" PVC (you can see how big the ID of the pipe is in my picture, and how thin the pipe wall is. My original plan was to use 1" pvc and with a bushing to 1.25" pvc after the bulkhead. Knowing that the sanitary tees are made for flow and ventilation, will using normal tees create noise or a bottleneck in my design? Should I just go with 1.5" bulkheads and use sanitary tees and all 1.5" piping? Upon further research, they don't make 1" sanitary tees, 1.5" is the smallest. Is the sanitary tee necessary? I plan on using 1" bulkheads and I already bought some plumbing and i realized that i got normal tees instead of sanitary tees. Here are a few of our thoughts after having installed many. With my design, i plan to build it so that the bulkheads are in the vertical position like in the following picture (not the actual bulkhead i'll be using). Drains can be tricky to get working both failsafe and quietly, especially when flowing 1000 GPH+. The larger 1,600 GPH and 2,400 GPH models include three drains to accommodate a Bean Animal style overflow setup for the ultimate in safe, reliable, and super-quiet overflows. Here's a mockup of how i was going to have it plumbed.įrom left to right would be my open channel standpipe(haven't drilled for the air hole yet), full siphon standpipe, then emergency standpipe.īeanAnimals original design has horizontal 1" bulkheads with a bushing to become 1.5" pvc piping. Build quality is top-notch with solid construction and a nice tight fit on all components, and each overflow is designed with multiple drains for redundancy and safety. I'm planning on building an external glass box behind the tank and drill for 3 1" bulkheads at the bottom of the external box. So I'm planning on implementing an external BeanAnimal overflow on my current tank build to save space inside the tank. ![]()
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