question on surges and chiller

macawmagic · Jun 25, 2009

So i'm setting up a sep. system out in my garage. The chiller is going to be located up by the surges so my question is, can I just have the water flow through the chiller and then into the surges, or will that be too much of a "cold rush" on the tanks when the surge actually dumps? I don't think it should be because the water can't be getting chilled that fast at 5 gal increments? but then again i've never had a surge before. Also for 2 5 gal surges about what gph should I have pumping into them?

Yellowtang · Jun 25, 2009

Last time I ran surges they were 9 gallons each I filled them with a 400 gph pump and they worked great. Runing your chiller through them doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Mine dumped randomly and on every once in a while would dump at same time, so yours could dump 10 gallons at once and that sounds like to much cold water at once JMO..

JR,

macawmagic · Jun 25, 2009

it's only 5 gal per 60 gal tank. 2 tanks. 2 surges. 1 common sump. I was just thinking its so much easier to do it that way then plumb the main return all the way up there and then back down to the tanks.

any other opinions? or even better has anyone done this before?

Fishcrazy06 · Jun 25, 2009

I would personally run your chiller return line into your sump. Running it into the surges could wreck havoc. What if one of the surges remained open while it was pumping water in to the surge tank? Don't know if it could happen but anything is possible. I would play it safe and run your chiller return line back into the sump. I don't have any surge tanks yet so hopefully others will chime in for you!

Eric