Pump head Loss calculator for saltwater aquariums

Posted on June 12th, 2007 by 10

Head Loss calculator

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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  • http://www.reefbuilders.com Peter Cunningham

    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.

  • http://www.reefbuilders.com Peter Cunningham

    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.

  • http://www.reefbuilders.com Shane Graber

    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

  • http://www.reefbuilders.com Shane Graber

    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

  • max

    Hello Mr.Graber,
    I have been using the software head loss calculator for on of my projects and found it very useful. But I just wonder how I can increase the vertical height as well as the pipe length in the program. Because I would like to use more than 50ft height and more length.
    Thank you very much

  • max

    Hello Mr.Graber,
    I have been using the software head loss calculator for on of my projects and found it very useful. But I just wonder how I can increase the vertical height as well as the pipe length in the program. Because I would like to use more than 50ft height and more length.
    Thank you very much

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