For reference, I am also running a Herbie. You can see the secondary trickle line with the hole drilled atop the U-tube. My Herbie is dead silent and I am pushing a lot of flow.
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How did you fare with this?Thanks for the pic, very helpful.
BTW, I see you are in Fairfield. I’m in Redding. Howdy neighba.
Congrats.Funny you should ask. Was going to reply back to this group since you were all great at offering advice
Turns out it was user error. I was making gate valve adjustments that were too much.
To start, I adjusted the gate valve to the point where I had each emergency drain with a decent amount of flow going through it. Similar to the way I had it. So it obviously was noisy. Like before.
Then, exercising extreme patience and a gentle hand, I made very minute changes to the gate valves to slightly increase the flow down the siphon and lessen it down the emergencies. I got comfortable doing this from the fish room realizing that the tank wouldn’t overflow. I kept tweaking until I literally had a trickle and sputter coming out of the emergencies. Went back upstairs and voila. Dead silent. I had to check to make sure water was actually going down.
Thanks for all the ideas and your experiences. It helped me reach a zen-like experience in my family room.
Not to derail the thread, but doesn’t putting on end caps like that affect the efficiency of the emergency drain? And eliminating those surface junks/floaties?For reference, I am also running a Herbie. You can see the secondary trickle line with the hole drilled atop the U-tube. My Herbie is dead silent and I am pushing a lot of flow.
Not to derail the thread, but doesn’t putting on end caps like that affect the efficiency of the emergency drain? And eliminating those surface junks/floaties?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Pain in the butt initially, but once set it's probably set and forget....and much quieterBasement. Much quieter. It’s kinda a pain when first dialing it in (I musta done about 5 miles up and down) but once you do the quiet is worth it.
You can order short stem bulkheads...
And make your adjustments in very small increments. A slight turn of the gate valve, like 1/4” can have the desired results.That's exactly what I was thinking. Pain in the butt initially, but once set it's probably set and forget....and much quieter