Caltrician
New Member
We have a sand problem messing up our toilet valves and raising havoc with my irrigation. The sand is not new, we've been pumping it up from our well for 10 years now, it's that we used to pump into a 5000 gal holding tank (2500 gal required by fire dept.), then used a VFD booster pump to supply water to the house and our irrigation. The holding tank acted as a sort of sediment filter, with an accumulated layer of sand in the bottom. Now because of two VFD failures we changed to have our well pump go directly to an 86 gal bladder tank, added a regular pressure switch, bypassing the holding tank setup.
So now we get sand in everything. I've been contemplating installing a Sandmaster H20-10 centrifugal filter. I also plan on adding a CSV to the system because of too much pressure fluctuation.
Question #1: The Sandmaster H20-10 has 3/4" inlet and outlet. The smallest pipes at the tank location are 1". Seems like the Sandmaster will restrict the flow. They say to size the filter according to the GPM. I followed their guidelines and came up with 15 GPM. Should I move up to the next size which has a 1" inlet/outlet. Do you think the flow will be restricted significantly with the 3/4"?
Question #2: Do you think there may be any conflict between the Filter and the CSV?
So now we get sand in everything. I've been contemplating installing a Sandmaster H20-10 centrifugal filter. I also plan on adding a CSV to the system because of too much pressure fluctuation.
Question #1: The Sandmaster H20-10 has 3/4" inlet and outlet. The smallest pipes at the tank location are 1". Seems like the Sandmaster will restrict the flow. They say to size the filter according to the GPM. I followed their guidelines and came up with 15 GPM. Should I move up to the next size which has a 1" inlet/outlet. Do you think the flow will be restricted significantly with the 3/4"?
Question #2: Do you think there may be any conflict between the Filter and the CSV?