Plumbing help please

[toomuch420]

Included some photos of current plumbing but entertaining if possible cutting pipes to incorporate my 25 watt uv sterilizer.
If possible also phosban 150 phosban reactor but that might be a stretch but idk tbh. Whats your alls takes and opinions?
Currently have return wide open at 9th power setting but have drain slowed down rn.

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[Jimbo327]

Problem is that with UV, you need to slow the flow. But if it is driven by your main pump, then your return also has to slow as well. Just something to think about. Most people build a manifold, and have that feed the various reactors, UV, etc. However, you may need to think about if your return pump is strong enough.

For your plumping, I would just tee off the return piping, and feed a manifold with some ball valves on each outlet on the manifold. And then you can hook up your UV into one port of the manifold, and reactor to another. The UV will have to drain back into sump, and same with the reactor.

 

[Veinz]

+1 on Manifold (if) your return pump can handle it all. Or just stick a small pump in your return and run the UV from that…at least you will know how much flow is going through your UV

 

[toomuch420]

Was definitely thinking manifold but don't know if pumps strong enough.

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[dontavo27]

A dedicated pump for both UV and reactor would save you the effort.

 

[drexel]

A dedicated pump for both UV and reactor would save you the effort.

I agree, you need to be able to control the flow on both the reactor and UV, and depending on what you're using the UV for, its flow should have independent flow control.