Pump head Loss calculator for saltwater aquariums
Posted June 12th, 2007 by Ryan
One of the many problems of designing and implementing a saltwater aquarium setup is knowing how much of your main sump pump will lose because of head height. This is a very ongoing problem for marine aquarists. This software is a very valuable tool when building your reef saltwater aquarium.
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Download the Head Loss Calculator
Read the Pump head loss calculator Guide
I have used that calculator and can say that it is worth it’s weight in gold. As you have said it is important when designing and implementing a sump into an aquarium system that head height be accounted for. It is amazing how much the flow reduces when it has to compete with gravity.
I’m glad that it’s useful to everyone. I’ve made some recent updates that I’ll be committing to the svn/trunk in the next couple of days that might be useful to others.
* Switched xml parsers from BeautifulSoup to ElementTree resulting in a calculation speed improvement. Click the SOLVE button and there’s no delay at all. Before there was a 1/2-1 second delay between clicking and seeing the results.
* Added a config file that would allow one to obtain all of the config files from the internet as opposed to the local C:\ drive. It would allow you to stay up-to-date with any new pumps added to the program.
As always I’m interested in hearing how I can improve the program:
http://code.google.com/p/plumbingpy
Shane