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Yes it will let you control the flow which is needed with a herbie or bean animal style. You will need lots of gate valves when plumbing. They are your friend and can save your tank.
Welcome to Reef2Reef. A gate valve works by creating a siphon on your primary drain line. With a siphon you are able to drain more water than if you let it gravity feed. Siphons also tend to be much quieter due to no air present in the plumbing compared to gravity drain. You can put the gate valve in the drain line wherever its convenient for you. The emergency line should be plumbed unrestricted.Setting up my tank and was told I need to have a gate valve for the overflow I'm using. I have an Eshopps Eclipse M overflow. My question is what does a gate valve do and is it definitely necessary?
Appreciate the explanation as I'm pretty new to all this and still learning.Welcome to Reef2Reef. A gate valve works by creating a siphon on your primary drain line. With a siphon you are able to drain more water than if you let it gravity feed. Siphons also tend to be much quieter due to no air present in the plumbing compared to gravity drain. You can put the gate valve in the drain line wherever its convenient for you. The emergency line should be plumbed unrestricted.
Dont use a ball valve, in my experience they're very hard to tune in, use a gate valve like this oneAppreciate the explanation as I'm pretty new to all this and still learning.
Would this fit between the two female adapters?
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Dont use a ball valve, in my experience they're very hard to tune in, use a gate valve like this one
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They're super easy to make slight adjustments to.
They can simply be glued into your plumbing, however for maintenance reasons, I'd put unions on each side of it so the unit can be removed
Check out BRS video on plumbing, great advice
Just my opinion, but that's not something you want to cut corners on. A flooded kitchen taught me that early on but totally up to you and your goals I can only make recommendationsWould I be able to use this one?
I wouldn't have to wait for shipping & It's only $13 compared to the $50 BRS one
Something just doesn't feel right about paying that for a valve ;Hilarious although I wouldn't mind if I had to
$50 one it is! no flooded bedroom for meJust my opinion, but that's not something you want to cut corners on. A flooded kitchen taught me that early on but totally up to you and your goals I can only make recommendations