tank is almost up and running added new pics 7-19-04

110chadman · Post by **110chadman** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:23 am

well after a long time of planning saving up a little cash and lots of building im allmost there

here is the story

i went out of town to visit a friend in st george island about 3.5-4 hours away about an hour befpr we left i decided to turn on the ro unit and let it top off the sump so it would not be really low when we got back (3 day trip) well we left i forgot to turn it off we get a call about 3:00 pm from my girlfriends mom (who was checkin the cats) saying that tere was water all over the place from the front door to the back glass door and all over the living room its about a 30 feet walf form the front door to the back door and the living room is 25 feet wide so say from friday at 5:00 to saturday at about 3:00 ther was 34 hours of non stop water (ro unit is 100gallon a day ) plus the water was so high in the sunp that the skimmer some how rose up enough to pump water out its self into the waste jar (an old black diamond carbon jar) and out that

i had a large shop vac but that didnt help so i had to call the carpet dr to get all the water out he said he maby pulled at least 80 - 100 gallons add that to 6 fill of a 12 gallon shop vac and about a dozen or so dumps of the bissel carpet cleaner

all said and done ive been working for about a month building a new stand canopy and shelving unit

ill post all the specs and new pics of the progress i just got done with all the plumbing and water test tonight 12:00 on the dot

chad

Snakeman · Post by **Snakeman** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:30 am

Thats a sturdy looking stand. I like the design.

Beaver · Post by **Beaver** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:02 pm

I am impressed with your work and look forward to seeing the steps and finished product

110chadman · Post by **110chadman** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:19 pm

here are some shots of the plumbing

110chadman · Post by **110chadman** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:21 pm

oops sorry guys didnt know that they yould turn out so big

ne nest batch ill have to resize

chad

Post by **snoopdog** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:27 pm

You guys are killing me on the bandwith, gonna have to start compressing these.

110chadman · Post by **110chadman** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:28 pm

give me 24 hours and ill move them to my web site i just wanted to let yall see waht i got going on

chad

Post by **admin** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:54 pm

I have no wants for you to remove them, the web site is here for this reason for everyone to share ideas. I just need you to compress them down some and try to keep them under 1024x768. I will be doing a major overhaul on the website this weekend and hopefully alot of that will be compressing the larger images down to a reasonable level.

Xster · Post by **Xster** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:34 am

Hey Snoop (admin) How do I compress without sacrificing quality? I need help in that department...
maybe a new thread on this subject????
Very curious, John

Post by **snoopdog** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:37 pm

Do you happen to have Adobe Photoshop

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:51 pm

Plumbing looks good. I hope you don't have the same problem with noise with the Gen X that I had when it was hard plumbed.

Post by **snoopdog** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:10 pm

I would never hard plumb another pump, too damn noisy.

110chadman · Post by **110chadman** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:43 pm

as far as compression Xster i just use good ole ms paint! i use the strech option id does fine for posting i just forgot to do it on these i will in a few min and post them i do use photo chop too!

the pump you see scott is not a gen x its a knock off made by cao its the ns-50 i think its a 5oo gph pump i had it hard plumb befor well not really i used the flex pvc and it never made a bunch of noise the only loud thing on it was the fan in the back of the motor

as far as the the 4mdqsc its a little louder than i thought but there again its mor of a fan noise to me all the hard plumbing is not really loud i still have to skin the frame but i plan to put a little foam in the inside of the skin cause i have a fealing the noise will resonate in there

here are some pics as of 72004

110chadman · Post by **110chadman** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:47 pm

admin can you take them off or tell me how and ill resize them like i did them today

Post by **snoopdog** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:47 pm

That is going to be awesome, what are you covering the exterior with.