Well, friends, I finally got notice that my UV shipped. UPS estimates my delivery to be on Monday. I will let you all know how it goes.
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Let me know what you think of it. I'm looking at grabbing a UV sterilizer. I only looked at the pentair 25W. I'd be running it on a total water volume of about 85 gallons. 55W lifegard overkill?
@Badilac, do you share the same opinion as the others, that a UV should be mounted horizontal? Vertical would fit much better for me.
For what it is worth, Pentair does not suggest mounting them horizontally but if you do, to mount them at an angle so potential air bubbles move to the top of the unit (where the light mounts to the body).
Edit: Pentair also has a "window" at the top and bottom of the unit that allows you to easily see if the light is on. This is true of the 40w (not sure of the other models).
Question for you guys. New skimmer coming in early this week, looking to power it with sicce ADV 7.0 which seems to be plenty of power to run through the skimmer. Can I have a T off with a valve to provide a smaller amount of flow through a UV sterilizer? Is it reasonable to run both the skimmer and UV sterilizer off this pump rated at 1900gph? If the take off tubing to the UV was 25% open I feel like it should get the appropriate flow through it.
The sicce ADV is an AC pump, non-pinwheel. Getting the skimmer from LifeReef which I am getting the mag drive 9.5 with it, but I've decided to use that to mix my new saltwater and I'll likely run the sicce to power the skimmer, purely because it's even stronger of a pump and runs at about half the watts for something running continuously. The nice part of these skimmers is you can run whatever pump you want essentially, as long as it's powerful enough.No, skimmer pumps and return pumps are different. They have different impellers. A skimmer impeller is designed to pull air into it. Usually through a pinwheel impeller.
I have also never heard of a new skimmer coming without it's own pump.
Following! I'm thinking of getting a lifereef as well and was stressing about having a pump for the skimmer and a separate one for the uv. If this is doable then I could just run one pump and cut back on the heat of running 2 pumps.Question for you guys. New skimmer coming in early this week, looking to power it with sicce ADV 7.0 which seems to be plenty of power to run through the skimmer. Can I have a T off with a valve to provide a smaller amount of flow through a UV sterilizer? Is it reasonable to run both the skimmer and UV sterilizer off this pump rated at 1900gph? If the take off tubing to the UV was 25% open I feel like it should get the appropriate flow through it.
Is that the 3" model or the 5"? And what size plumbing are you going with for inlet and outlet?It doesn't look that big in the picture but it is, this thing is like the size of a leg
For a size reference, that's a 1" true union ball valve in the pic
Good looking install!Here’s my pro max 90 mounted vertically. I used 1” reducing couplings. I also installed a flow meter after the unit so I know how much flow is going through the unit. My Apex will shut it down when flow gets below 400gph. And will delay it coming back on for 10 minutes. I also have it set to shut down if the temp gets above 82 degrees. That’s never happened and I run it 24/7.
Is that the 3" model or the 5"? And what size plumbing are you going with for inlet and outlet?
Here’s my pro max 90 mounted vertically. I used 1” reducing couplings. I also installed a flow meter after the unit so I know how much flow is going through the unit. My Apex will shut it down when flow gets below 400gph. And will delay it coming back on for 10 minutes. I also have it set to shut down if the temp gets above 82 degrees. That’s never happened and I run it 24/7.