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The benefits of UVC - newbie question
Don't mind all my replys to this post. I have nothing but the best of
recomendations for Hozelock. With the Bio Force, you do need a "device" water fall etc so you can get the proper flowoout of the pump. If the outlet of the hose is too low the water flow is too fast thhrough the UVC, so its typical most folks use a water fall of approx height to regulate flow. Yes, you can use a valve, but why fool with a valve when you can adjust the outlet height when making a water fall. The setup lends itself to supplying water to a veggie fitler or it even works good if you feed a bakki shower or tower with the discharge water.......its easy to setup a shower in a corner up along the house wall or fence hidden by plants and get added benefits of having the bakki shower or trickle tower.......... To adjust height, turn on pump and allow water to flow...hold end of pump up say 2' to start......and direct outflow of hose into say a 5 gal bucket.and time it as to how fast it fills up the bucket. With the amount of water in a known containers size and the time it took to fill it, its easy to do the numbers and find out how much flow the pump is putting out. Too nuch or too fast, rasie hose up say 2" more and try again, too little lower hose and try again. HOld hose at various heights and when yu get the desired flow the height the hose is at is the height yu need to shoot for in regards to water fall height etc........or height for a trickle tower....You can get good clear water all without UVC with a decent veggie filter or trickle tower, but things come together so much faster and you can get much clearer water quicker, that to me if I only used it to get the ponds water clear and allow filter media to catch up, then shut it off, I would stlil go with a UVC. The hozelock uses a standard UVC bulb, nothing special...... On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:00:04 +0000, Gill Passman wrote: I was looking at the Hozelock products in my LFS and noticed that Hozelock have a combined Pump, Filter, UVC combination product - the price isn't exorbitant (but I guess that is subjective). Now my question would be on the UVC side...... My understanding of UV usage in the marine aquatic side is that it is used for prevention of parasites etc. Does the same theory apply to Ponds as well with this UVC unit? Or is it just a water clarifier? TIA Gill ------- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! |
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