Most Incredible Wave Box Ive seen to date

[Fatman]

YouTube- Wavebox


Incredible Found it on Reef Central
Their talking about it not lasting to long though the on/off/on/off.
They also discussing putting it outside the tank and drill the tank.

[dakar]

Way cool.... You a direct link showing the 'guts' of the wavebox system itself?

[perpetual98]

This would be a lot easier...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97FtdUWxQw

[RWalston]

here is the thread about it. It is on another board sorry.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1007362

[Sweetpea]

That has me thinking of giving Paul a weekend project! ;)
Thanks a bunch for sharing!

[dakar]

here is the thread about it. It is on another board sorry.

What's the apology for? No need.... I asked for a direct link because I just didn't want to spend a week trying to use the search function on that site trying to locate the thread.

[graphixx]

that is fantastic, that actually seems very easy and a great concept. I would love to try this with my tank but I would have no idea on the timer stuff. but the movement in that tank was amazing and a heck of a lot less $$$$$ than a tunze

[dakar]

Looks like a cool idea... though I have some ideas brewing for a different type of surging type wavemaker.... wondering how much water it would take to create a good surge in a 180.

Thinking out loud.... I don't care much for the rapid on/off switching of a pump, but with a little extra support I could put a 10g tank on top of each end of my canopy and have them fill up then rapidly empty out into the diplay using something like 2" pvc, either alternating or at the same time to create turbulance. This way the pump(s) would always be on and if something malfuntioned then water could only end up in the display and not on the floor.

[RWalston]

Dakar

Eric B. has a surge tank diagram in his book. Simply uses a toilet plunger. Get a 15 gallon rubber made tub cut a hole in the bottom and insert a toilet plunger. Put a pump in your sump to fill top tank. As the tank fills it raises the float and lifts the plunger. All the water then exits the 15 gallon tub into the tank causing a huge surge. Once the water is gone the plunger resets itself and the pump starts to fill the tub again. Using a ball valve to control the pump is used for timing your surges.

[dakar]

That's pretty much what I was thinking.... though using a rubbermaid tub instead of a glass tank makes a lot more sense... a lot easier to drill and seal the outlet.

[Fatman]

Well the thing with the fill up and float surge is the timing usually isnt perfect, compared to this device. Sorry about not getting the link earlier I wasnt at home and like dakar said, that site takes forever to find a thread.