the official 180 build begins !

[Spanky]

Skimmer's great! now make me one too.

I would run that becket on it's own pressure rated pump, something like a Iwaki70 at least. You won't believe what it will do then.

[gwaco]

[quote=Spanky]Skimmer's great! now make me one too.

I would run that becket on it's own pressure rated pump, something like a Iwaki70 at least. You won't believe what it will do then. [/quote ] you never know what santa might bring you this year ! basically i tried a rlt 70 with the mak-5 , the curve on the iwaki is 1500 g.p.h. at 4 ft while the l.g. te-5.5 is 2150 at 5ft and at 20' the l.g. is still pumping more than the iwaki at 4 ' with 1680 g.p.h. . don't know how much more than that i need !

[gwaco]

Originally Posted by REEF-DADDY

I really think you would be happier with the skimmer on its own pump. You'll have to shut down the chiller every time you want to turn off the skimmer. Not to mention the performance of a Beckett skimmer is proportionate to the pump you’re using. I doubt your pump is making much pressure being split like that. I would run the chiller and UV on one loop. UV then chiller ,you prolly could get away with a mag 9 or an iwaki 40 or the like

you guys are killin me ! right when i think i have it all figured out !! with the way i set it up you don't have to shut the chiller down , i just have to turn the valve off to the skimmer and the chiller still will have water going thru it . it doesn't take but just a crack of the valve to feed the chiller and the pump seems to feed both very easily . i will probally leave it this way for now , and if i feel differently once it is all set-up and running it will be easy enough to make the changes .

[REEF-DADDY]

[quote=gwaco]

Originally Posted by Spanky

Skimmer's great! now make me one too.

I would run that becket on it's own pressure rated pump, something like a Iwaki70 at least. You won't believe what it will do then. [/quote ] you never know what santa might bring you this year ! basically i tried a rlt 70 with the mak-5 , the curve on the iwaki is 1500 g.p.h. at 4 ft while the l.g. te-5.5 is 2150 at 5ft and at 20' the l.g. is still pumping more than the iwaki at 4 ' with 1680 g.p.h. . don't know how much more than that i need !

The issue is your splitting the output and therefor lowering the pressure at the beckett. Imagine taking your garden hoseand putting a Y on it. Now put a nozzle on one end and leave he other end open. Will the nozzle produce pressure? The question becomes is a MaK-5 split equal to a mak-4/iwaki 70 solo. The answer young Jedi, know you shall soon.

[gwaco]

[quote=REEF-DADDY]

Originally Posted by gwaco

The issue is your splitting the output and therefor lowering the pressure at the beckett. Imagine taking your garden hoseand putting a Y on it. Now put a nozzle on one end and leave he other end open. Will the nozzle produce pressure? The question becomes is a MaK-5 split equal to a mak-4/iwaki 70 solo. The answer young Jedi, know you shall soon.

ah! but the answer is i'm not using the mak-5 at all, the pump is a little giant te-5.5-mdq-sc ! which even at 40' still puts out 540 g.p.h. . so its kind of like comparing apples and oranges . this pump is so strong that taking away alittle flow does not seem to effect it horribly , while i agree that i may be taking away from the skimmer i don't know that the pressure loss to the beckett is affected . like anything it can only flow so much air before any additional air supply or flow supply will be wasted .

[gwaco]

weekend update - more work completed on the sump cabinet . just about finished , got some trim work to do and then paint it up ! by the way 90% of the wood used in the cabinet was from " dumpster diving and the plywood came from a big shipping box we had at work , and the doors came from a neighbor that was putting in new closet doors .

[gwaco]

the big accomplishment of the weekend was drilling out the tank . first off hats off to those that drill them with a hand drill ! here is the set-up i put together , made a make shift rack , leveled the tank and then moved the drill press in position . after making sure the press was level i put a piece of wood on the press table , then cranked the table up till there was enough pressure to keep the wood in place ,this kept everything very stable . the speed was set at 230 r.p.m. . i know i probally went alittle overboard on the precautions but i was nervous enough about drilling 6 holes . every thing went perfect ! it took me about 90 minutes to drill all the holes with most of the time on set-up for each hole . i don't know why i waited so long to try this ! the bit ran me $56 and was bought locally . anyone know how many holes you can get out of one bit ?

[gwaco]

[gwaco]

the first big sigh of relief ! the first hole !

[gwaco]

the finished job !
i'm off work tomarrow and have a bunch things planned . finish up the cabinet . i am going to run the skimmer pump on 240 volts instead of 120 , so i am going to install a sub panel box , and run a new 120 volt circuit for the other stuff . next weekend i will get the tank resealed and get to work on the tank overflow . so much too do !!!!!!

[gman0526]

That's great work. Seem slike this will be up and running in no time.

[Wiskey]

Looks great! It is so nerve racking drilling glass, but every time I get done I think "that wasn't too bad", until the next time I have to do it.

Are you going to make overflows around some of those holes?
Whiskey

[gwaco]

just alittle update . things have been real hecktic this past week so didn't get much done . i did get the new electrical circiuts run this week , and got the pump changed over to 240 volts . today i spent most of the day just doing some trim work and got most of the sump cabinet painted . i also managed to pick up the 7095 tunze multicontroller this week ! that was probally the most excitement of the week ! hopefully i will get some pics of the progress posted tomarrow , but they won't be too exciting .
jerel , those were a couple of beautiful queens i saw the other day , almost made me think of redoing everything .

[gwaco]

well here are some pics of this weekends accomplishments . got the cabinet painted , put in a sump area light , put in a power strip , got the two sumps joined together , and got the bigger drain put in the skimmer ! its a short list i know , but i have worked on this thing the whole weekend !

[gwaco]

this is a look at the end . it also an opening door for access. and when the pump is in its final spot it will be pulling air from the three vents in the lower right hand corner .