On my 200 gallon peninsula the drains are around 5 ft of 1 inch tubing. It's a bean animal. This is to allow my pumps to have as little head loss as possible.
I unscientificly filled a bucket to measure return flow, each pump is around 750 gph. There are two, ~1500 total return flow.
Right now my drain valve is wide open and the durso stand pipe is barely able to deal with the flow. If I plug it's vent and it goes full siphon it all easily handles the flow.
I have the durso going into the sump under the water line and the other drains into a reefmat 1200. The corrugated tube is cut pretty close to as short as possible.
All returns are 3/4" and drains are 1". There are only two 90 elbows on each drain line. The durso is also 1”. There is no stand pipe in the main drain.
What do I need to do to get more flow in the drains? Increase the line size for less back pressure? Increase the durso because it's such a restriction?
Any suggestions on how you dealt with this kind of situation?
I unscientificly filled a bucket to measure return flow, each pump is around 750 gph. There are two, ~1500 total return flow.
Right now my drain valve is wide open and the durso stand pipe is barely able to deal with the flow. If I plug it's vent and it goes full siphon it all easily handles the flow.
I have the durso going into the sump under the water line and the other drains into a reefmat 1200. The corrugated tube is cut pretty close to as short as possible.
All returns are 3/4" and drains are 1". There are only two 90 elbows on each drain line. The durso is also 1”. There is no stand pipe in the main drain.
What do I need to do to get more flow in the drains? Increase the line size for less back pressure? Increase the durso because it's such a restriction?
Any suggestions on how you dealt with this kind of situation?