FSOL
07/22/2006, 10:41 AM
I'm not sure why this is happening, but the water level in my sump is rising daily. I used to think it's my return pumps. Maybe they could be clogged up or something, but if they were not pumping water back to the tank fast enough, wouldn't this cause the water level in the tank to come down (hence causing water level in sump to go up?).
I checked and water level in tank is always the same.
Could dripping kalkwasser do this? I only drip about 2.5 gallon/day and my sump's return section area is only about 30" long by 15" wide.
So see if my math is right. 30"x15" is almost 2900cm squared. So dripping almost 3000cm squared (which is 3 liters) will raise the height of my return section water by 1cm, so 3.89liters, which is one gallon, will raise it by 1.3cm, which is almost half an inch. So if one gallon raises it half an inch, then 2.5 gallons will raise it by 1.25 inches. So in about a span of a week this is about 9 inches. Of course I"m not taking evaporation into account. So taking about half of my dripped water evaporating, that's about 4.5" of water rise per week.
So what can I do about this? Should I let it just rise? How can I drip less water while keeping kalkwasser demand satisfied. I am not sure how concentrated I can make the kalk solution w/out precipitating everything.
I checked and water level in tank is always the same.
Could dripping kalkwasser do this? I only drip about 2.5 gallon/day and my sump's return section area is only about 30" long by 15" wide.
So see if my math is right. 30"x15" is almost 2900cm squared. So dripping almost 3000cm squared (which is 3 liters) will raise the height of my return section water by 1cm, so 3.89liters, which is one gallon, will raise it by 1.3cm, which is almost half an inch. So if one gallon raises it half an inch, then 2.5 gallons will raise it by 1.25 inches. So in about a span of a week this is about 9 inches. Of course I"m not taking evaporation into account. So taking about half of my dripped water evaporating, that's about 4.5" of water rise per week.
So what can I do about this? Should I let it just rise? How can I drip less water while keeping kalkwasser demand satisfied. I am not sure how concentrated I can make the kalk solution w/out precipitating everything.