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01/06/2009, 08:02 PM | #1 |
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How do you make a drain that is just an elbow fitting quiet?
I just have an 1.5" bulkhead with an upturned 90 with a strainer for a drain and I cannot make it quiet at all. I am to the point now where my pump is backed off so much its barely moving water and it still loud.
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01/06/2009, 08:07 PM | #2 |
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Im not using an overflow box just a 90 fitting turned up so I doubt that would work. It's like it has a constant siphon going, so instead of a drain I have a vacuum. I can turn the fitting upside down and it will suck water out of the tank down to the end of the fitting in seconds. I need to get rid of this siphon affect and just have a drain. The pump I am using only pumps at 600 gph so a 1" drain should be enough and I have two 1" lines draining. I am draining to a basement sump two floors down so maybe with a drop of that distance it will always have a siphon and I am just stuck with noise?
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01/06/2009, 08:43 PM | #4 |
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It does have a constant siphon. You really should build a box around it to make it work better.
But with that said if you put the external durso on it, it will help with the siphon problem. But an elbow with a strainer on it will not keep a very constant water level. Kim
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01/06/2009, 09:01 PM | #5 |
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I have an external durso already. Sounds like I am just kind of s.o.l
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01/06/2009, 09:07 PM | #6 |
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I think you are sol. The only thing you could would be put in some air vents in the pipe part way down, but that would not be easy and I'm not sure if it would make much of a difference anyway.
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The dark line you see on the two differing drains is simply a piece of rigid air line tubing placed through a drilled hole. The drain fitting made with a "T" fitting has a cap on it with the tube through a hole you must drill through the cap. The drain made from a 90 degree fitting merely has a small hole drilled in it to accept the tubing. glass-holes sells these 90 degree fittings predrilled for the same cost as an undrilled fitting. Raise the tubing up and down until the system operates the quietest. A simple piece of electrical tape will hold the tubing where you find it works best.
There will be no siphon with this arrangement, however you must realise without the siphon your flow will drop appreciably. Most people try to eliminate siphons as their flow is not usually consistent/dependable. |
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Even with the vent, you can get a siphon effect in the pipe, which is I believe the problem the OP is having.
Question. Is your drain submerged in the sump or above the waters surface? kim
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The drain lines empty above the surface of the water.
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01/06/2009, 10:36 PM | #10 |
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The only way he could then have a siphon if the pipe has another low point in it at which the pipe is completely filled with water. This may be the case with a very long "basement run" my suggestion is the same as thererealfatman's. You will have to adjust the air tube length until it breaks the siphon and may have to add multiple or larger tubes.
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