tank is almost up and running added new pics 7-19-04
Moderator: snoopdog
- 110chadman
- Copepod
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:57 pm
- Location: pensacola florida
- Contact:
tank is almost up and running added new pics 7-19-04
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
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
- Attachments
-
- stand1small.jpg (17.36 KiB) Viewed 2832 times
Last edited by 110chadman on Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
gitting things back in order and starting over!!!
- 110chadman
- Copepod
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:57 pm
- Location: pensacola florida
- Contact:
here are some shots of the plumbing
- Attachments
-
- P7180764.JPG (719.91 KiB) Viewed 2795 times
-
- P7180765.JPG (730.76 KiB) Viewed 2794 times
-
- P7180766.JPG (721.05 KiB) Viewed 2794 times
-
- P7180767.JPG (683.73 KiB) Viewed 2795 times
-
- P7180768.JPG (666.56 KiB) Viewed 2794 times
-
- P7180769.JPG (645.93 KiB) Viewed 2794 times
-
- P7180770.JPG (694.61 KiB) Viewed 2795 times
gitting things back in order and starting over!!!
- 110chadman
- Copepod
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:57 pm
- Location: pensacola florida
- Contact:
- snoopdog
- Yellow Tang
- Posts: 4258
- Joined: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:37 pm
- Are you a Bot ?: No
- Location: Mobile, Al
- Contact:
You guys are killing me on the bandwith, gonna have to start compressing these.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
- 110chadman
- Copepod
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:57 pm
- Location: pensacola florida
- Contact:
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.
"Look at all the pretty colors !! Is all that stuff in there alive ??"
- 110chadman
- Copepod
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:57 pm
- Location: pensacola florida
- Contact:
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
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
- Attachments
-
- calcsmall.JPG (25.87 KiB) Viewed 2744 times
-
- fullsmall.JPG (22.73 KiB) Viewed 2745 times
gitting things back in order and starting over!!!
- 110chadman
- Copepod
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:57 pm
- Location: pensacola florida
- Contact:
- snoopdog
- Yellow Tang
- Posts: 4258
- Joined: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:37 pm
- Are you a Bot ?: No
- Location: Mobile, Al
- Contact:
That is going to be awesome, what are you covering the exterior with.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate