[APD] hob as overflow?

["Candy M." <cry_little_sister at hotmail_com>]

Has anyone tried to convert a hob power filter to a overflow for a sump? The 
inlet could be shortened and placed inside a pvc capped tube slightly below 
water level to give it a surface skimmer effect and at the same time 
avoiding overflow problems during a power failure since the pump can only 
pull what overflows into the pvc tube out. I suppose the box of the hob 
could be drilled to allow a line out from it into the sump and a submersible 
in the sump to feed it back up into the main tank? In theory using a hob 
would also be self priming if the power went out. The glitch I cant seem to 
get past is if the hob did not restart after the power went out but the sump 
pump did and emptied the entire sump back into the main tank it could create 
an overflow.
Ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions? Links?

Candy

*never does ANYthing the easy way*

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