Re: [Killietalk] A Quick Linear Pump Question

[Charles Harrison <charles at inkmkr_com>]

Tim,
Your piping can be the same, but be careful of the joints. A local 
fish keeper changed over from a blower to the liner and the first 
time he connected things together and turned it on - it blew all the 
joints. He had to go back to the blower and then seal everything 
joint by joint to keep it from blowing apart. The pressure generated 
by the blower is really different from the liner pump.

Keep the plumbing size for the sake of the life of the pump. It will 
work better.

Charles Harrison

At 9:59 PM +0000 1/7/05, Tim Addis wrote:
>  > Based on my experience, that is not necessary. I used regular 90 degree
> >  elbows in the corners of my 1.5" manifold and there is no noise problem.
> >  The only thing you hear in my fish room is the bubbles from the tanks.
>
> With a blower I used 1.25" piping to feed the tanks & pushed a valve into
> this pipe above each tank. The blower produces volume but little pressure.
> Would a linear power a similar system or should it be tapered off to smaller
> diameter piping the further from the pump?
>
>      Tim

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