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A picture tells it all

Zman
Zman Member Posts: 7,611
in THE MAIN WALL
Funny thing I came across today.
This was on the discharge of a "generously sized" pool pump.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
Albert Einstein

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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,504
    Reminds me of Dan's story about the dead-headed pressure booster pump.
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  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,822
    @Erin Holohan Haskell, maybe we need a button for "****‽"
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  • Solid_Fuel_Man
    Solid_Fuel_Man Member Posts: 2,644
    edited December 2017
    I love how right where it ballooned is the "NOT FOR PTESSURE" warning. How hot was the water at the pump discharge?
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  • Erin Holohan Haskell
    Erin Holohan Haskell Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 2,357
    ratio said:

    @Erin Holohan Haskell, maybe we need a button for "****‽"

    Good one. I'm on it! ;)

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  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,622
    I wouldn't have thought that foam core could have expanded that much.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,611
    Solid_Fuel_Man said:

    I love how right where it ballooned is the "NOT FOR PTESSURE" warning. How hot was the water at the pump discharge?

    The water is 86 degree pool water. It did this right before the pump cavitated and blew up the impeller. I suspect the sand filter plugged causing the inlet of the pump to go even more negative. It doesn't help that the pump is a couple feet above the pool and is located at 9,600 feet (atmospheric pressure ~ 10.xxpsi).

    I like the idea of a **** category, I have lots of pictures. :o
    You can tell folks not to use cellular core PVC all day, nothing like a picture....
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    No one could have the ability to dream that up for photoshoping that. A little steam action to heat the pipe.

    Looks like a ruptured colon.......or a gastric bypass gone wrong.


    I like the **** radio button! Please o:)
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,622
    A pool running ar 9600' in late December? Where are you at?
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Hey I've been to aspen in January. Can't recall the place. Pool 1/2 outside, and swim under glass to the bar inside. I was at the bar inside, and not in the pool........
    adasilva
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,923
    Had a pump piped with PVC on a sand filter set up to filter water tower water. his thing had operated for 10 years with no issues.

    The customer complained the pvc let go and flooded the place and someone went and fixed it. This system had air operated pneumatic valves on it that were normally closed

    A month later I was on call and they called me on a Saturday with the same problem. Water all over the place.

    Pvc looked like it got hot, softened and pulled the threaded adapter out of the pump.

    I found out they had no compressed air so the valves were shut the pump had run ded headed and overheated the pvc.

    They had recently installed new air compressors and controls and were now shutting down the compressors on weekends.

    I installed a reverse acting pressure control on the air line and wired it to the pump so a loss of air pressure would shut down the pump
  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,822
    Gordy said:

    I like the **** radio button! Please o:)

    Don't forget the "‽"!

  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,611
    Ironman said:

    A pool running ar 9600' in late December? Where are you at?

    Colorado Rockies.
    They run it year round with no cover. It creates it's own weather system when it gets real cold.
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
    Gordy
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,933
    Heck they heat the streets, walks and parking lots in some of those Colorado resorts. Those 1%ers have no issue with that expense :smile:

    Probably the more NG the resorts consume the richer those folk become?
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,622
    hot rod said:

    Heck they heat the streets, walks and parking lots in some of those Colorado resorts. Those 1%ers have no issue with that expense :smile:

    Probably the more NG the resorts consume the richer those folk become?

    Does this mean the Zman is 1%er? :D

    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
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  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,611
    I sure work for some... :)
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
    Canucker
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,933
    Zman said:

    I sure work for some... :)

    Getting trickled down on are U?

    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    BrewbeerZmanSolid_Fuel_Man

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