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Balance bottom drain and Oase Skimmer
What are the recomendations for balancing the two intakes? The skimmer has
1.25" line running to it and the bottom drain has 2" pipe running to it. The skimmer does not work unless I restrict the bottom drain which is easy enough with a manual valve. Is there a valve out there for ponds that has a variable venturi? This would allow the 2" line to be restricted and adjust itself as needed to keep proper flow. |
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Balance bottom drain and Oase Skimmer
On Sun, 25 May 2003 19:43:31 -0500, "Chris" wrote:
What are the recomendations for balancing the two intakes? The skimmer has 1.25" line running to it and the bottom drain has 2" pipe running to it. The skimmer does not work unless I restrict the bottom drain which is easy enough with a manual valve. Is there a valve out there for ponds that has a variable venturi? This would allow the 2" line to be restricted and adjust itself as needed to keep proper flow. Could you make the 1.25 line to skimmer bigger? Or maybe you need to suck more gph? I have a similar set up using 1.5" on the skimmer with 2" on the drain (as does the Demon Pond). My pond is running 1500/gph, Dpond 1800+/gph and skimmers are working great on both. ~ jan See my ponds and filter designs, Dpond: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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