beaucon

I think you should have some sort of paypal link to a "Martha Defense Fund". Surely no jury will convict her but it will be expensive. Something tells me this is not the first project that started while Martha was out of the house. I've seen your kind before.

One day my wife came home to find that I had talked a backhoe operator who was working on a new construction site just down the street from us to dig a 2,000 gallon hole for my koi pond. It only cost me $25 for the hole, for a few minutes after she got home I thought it might cost me a whole lot more. Well it did actually cost me a whole lot more but that's another story.

This is going to be fun....if you survive.

JoeHundredAire

I would try that too, but there's no possible way I could get a full size backhoe into my back yard with the close proximity of my neighbor's houses.

intothenew

Some of us will surely make it out alive. Martha, at the least, needs the Defense Department.


Thanks for stopping in.

intothenew

If I Do It Myself, It'll Only Cost....



I Can Have It Done In Less Than A Week



This Will Be An Easy Project



Think What We'll Save....




By My Doing This, You'll Be Abe To Have ....

Tex Gal

...Those subtitles would surely exist under the YouTube videos and pxs.

brion0

Looks like fun.

intothenew

Sssssshhhh, don't let Martha hear you say that. I totally agree with you but, I have her convinced that this is hard work. It's my own take on Bowerbird theory.

intothenew

Today we offer a special edition of HHH entitled "The Artsy Fartsy Moment".


We have for years relied on the premise that the only thing you design from the top down is a building. Today we are here to dispel those beliefs. Function should follow form in planted aquariums. So we bring in a jug of corn squeezins, that way everybody will show, and we allow them to doodle for the evening. Below is the result.



There is a special prize being offered by today's sponsor for the first poster to identify the fish drawn by Martha.


The mechanical department of course is off in a corner drinking beer and has to have their own drawing, which appears to have nothing to do with the subject at hand by everyone else.



And the abstract senses of the Artsy Fartsy department begin to transform the corn squeezin' drawing into something..........well, something.



They are by now off to their selves drinking wine and drop this on the floor.



After a brief interruption for cheese, they submit the following master draft to mechanical.



As the evenings festivities wind down, I over hear the chief mechanic saying something about the top view being the side view, and the bottom view being the top view. He walks off in apparent disdain. But, he'll be back, he just loves this stuff.

intothenew

I had a Dream

I had a dream of this elegant stage attached to a manifold. It is comprised of two like uv sterilizers attached in parallel as mirror images of each other. It has three personalities, bypass, flow to only one, or flow to both.


Bypass:

For those lighter times, to protect those beautiful micros


Single:

The moat defending against lower forms of flora


Dual:

The toaster



But as with many dreams, it is not all pearling and 6500k. Just before I awake, I am standing before a wall of manufactures data charts. I am looking through Mississippi water trying to evaluate the numbers.





I now pour a cup of coffee, and try a moment of reality.


Plumbing:

One programmable valve on supply to one sterilizer only. With the valve open we get flow to both, and with the valve closed we get flow to only one.


Electrical:

Programmable switch to each sterilizer.



Therefore;


Both switches off and valve open allows the lighter day mode. We at least keep intermittent flow to both and thwart stale water.

Switch to the unrestricted sterilizer on and valve closed yields the anti green water mode.

Both switches on and the valve open, I can hear the screams as they burn in..........



Now back to the muddy water part that woke me up. There is roughly a 3X difference in intensity recommended between anti-green and kill-em-all. This system as stated obviously only allows for 2X. But, the intensity recommendations vary by 2X.

Is there a "sweet spot" in this somewhere? Denizens of the germicidal spectrum, masters of below the blue, What say ye?


This makes me hungry, Apple butter on toast anyone?

JERP

dunno about your actual question, but I do have some feedback.

I recommend against having a UV always connected just in case. Make a space for the UV in your setup and either have quick disconnects from the to the UV, or bypass and drain on the UV. You don't want the UV connected at all times for two reasons. The bulb will eventually get covered in slime and end up mostly useless by the time you need it. You will also have a a nice chunk of stagnant water in the UV that's been anaerobic since... well you get the idea.

I plumbed my system so I can plumb in a UV when I need it without getting wet, but the UV itself lives in a box in the garage. It stays dry so there's no sludge build up.