Great thread Ethan! Everytime I start to consider making a FF DG rolls her eyes at me. I don't know how you get away with it !!
On a serious note, is your water soft? I have very hard water here and am not sure that I'll get much foam.
~Raymond.
Great thread Ethan! Everytime I start to consider making a FF DG rolls her eyes at me. I don't know how you get away with it !!
On a serious note, is your water soft? I have very hard water here and am not sure that I'll get much foam.
~Raymond.
Ephesians 2:8-9
faith is a gift, not a personal talent.
No plants... just fish. How much improvement would I get by maintaining 0.01% salt? I'm pretty sure I can get foam on my QT bc it shows up at the base of my shower return, but that's probably due to the overstocking condition right now. I don't want to maintain that level just to produce foam... Do you think it is possible to build a small scale version of yours to test foam production capability?
you don't even have to glue the pieces really to get an idea of whether you will get foam. dry fit the pieces snuggly, and then see what happens. then, if you are gettting the results you want, glue them. It may leak slightly when you test it for an hour or so, but keep an eye on it, and see what you get.
I got phoam again. 3rd or 4th day in a row. I had phoam all afternoon yesterday. It never stopped. It slowed, but never stopped.
I am making one of these for a member here who asked for me to make one.
Ephesians 2:8-9
faith is a gift, not a personal talent.
Wtg!
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Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Dustin
video in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvIYaHiieAQ
with narration.
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faith is a gift, not a personal talent.
well, I woke up this morning to a quite a surprise.
a lot of phoam.
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faith is a gift, not a personal talent.
larger pipe used on both the water column and the base where water settles and bubbles settle out. This means longer dwell time. Just like settling out solids with a settlement chamber, the bubbles need a short time, enough to settle UP and out.
I used a ball valve on the end to adjust height of water in the base, which permits me to adjust flow, a tad, but more importantly, the height of the water. Before I just had a swivel pipe that moved up and down, and that was ineffective.
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faith is a gift, not a personal talent.
larger pipe everywhere combined with the ball valve at teh end makes the difference.
Ephesians 2:8-9
faith is a gift, not a personal talent.
This is really a great thread, Ethan. I really appreciate all the photos and descriptive details you have provided of the construction -- I learn a lot in this way.
A few follow-up questions:
1. Am I correct that all the bubbles are being produced from the mechanical action of the water splashing down past those bioballs? In other words, you are not also injecting air into the water; is that correct?
2. I gather that most folks do not run these things (phoam phractionators) continuously -- How long, and how often would someone typically run one of these?
3. How problematic is the presence of hard water to the making of the foam?
Thanks for any additional insights.
Paul