Refuge question

[capthutch]

Ok guys, setup my fuge w/a gravity overflow. Works great except.......overflow sounds like a bunch o fat folks at the all u can eat soup bar! I've tried it overflowing above the sump waterline (the sound makes me need to frequent the bathroom a little more often) and I've tried it below the sump waterline and this makes the slurping worse. Any suggestions?
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[curtismaximus]

The gravity feed is the problem, i dont think there is a way to make it completely silent, only relatively quiet. Is it to late to try and connect the fuge directly into the system?

 

[hnguyen]

I have almost the same set up and it doesn't make a single noise. Is the noise coming from the cube drain or is it coming from where water goes back into the sump?

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That's how mine likes like from the top. I just have a 3/4 elbow and pipe coming out to skim the water.

 

[capthutch]

Hnguyen, that would prob b the ticket as I just have the bulkhead with nothing on the fuge side of the setup. It is creating a "suction draft"/whirlpool on the fuge side and once it breaks the slurping starts! Curt, yeah it's to late as the fuge was an afterthought. Woulda been great to have drilled the sump but...... To big of a pain now. Ok, off to the hardware store for sum more tinkering! Thanks guys!

 

[hnguyen]

If you look at my picture, there are ribs cut all along the pipe. That will help skim the water. Also, it shouldn't make any noise if the flow is low enough. You don't want flow in your fuge to be too high so if its blasting, turn it down a little and see what it does before you do anything else to it.

 

[tbryan]

Do you mean the drain from the fuge to your sump? If so looks like you need a T with a short standpipe to let some air in the line( just like the drain from your tank probably is),instead of that 90 you have in there.

 

[curtismaximus]

Cool set up Hn. I can see how that would help. Is there any risk of flooding with that type setup?

 

[hnguyen]

Curtismaximus;870602 wrote: Cool set up Hn. I can see how that would help. Is there any risk of flooding with that type setup?

Nope, if you look at the other end of the pipe, there's another elbow coming out. That's te emergency overflow. So if all the grills get clogged, the water will rise and then flow into that. That's why it's sitting a little higher up. It's not in use when everything is running normally. As for the drain running to the sump. I just have a straight PVC pipe coming all the way down my sump and then a 90 turn into the sump.

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That's how it returns to the sump. Again, dead silent.

 

[ichthyoid]

Look into 'Durso' type drains.

They help silence the slurp