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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Bell Siphon Woes

It's exactly what it looks like.
     I've taken preliminary steps toward getting this bell siphon working, but it feel like one step forward, two steps back. Getting a continuous flow of water running through the siphon is what creates the suction pressure that relieves the upper tank into the lower as the pressure difference equalizes. I know now that for the tank size setup I'm using, half-inch PVC is waaay too big and would almost never allow for a continuous stream of water to form, owing to the amount of water available. Josh helped me run more than a few test runs with varying sized siphons and only twice did the bell siphon work as planned. Lesson learned, anyway.
 

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