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10-28-2009, 10:17 PM
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BK skimmers have bubble plates allowing them to put more air and water through the body than an equivalent Euroreef/ASM. This is true of all skimmers with bubble plates and reaches its height of potential with the Supermarin dual cone body which blasts INSANE amounts of air into a comparatively small body (2000lph/4000lph, 22" tall 10" dia body...)
Finally, I'd wager that contact time is less relevant than reduced turbulence, y'know, the whole quantity vs. quality arguement  . Bit I digress, mainstream skimmers have undergone enough testing that I doubt one would have to worry about any particular unit getting too much water/air through the body.
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10-29-2009, 04:17 AM
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That's kind of the issue i was having with the skimmer before. I felt there was WAY too much turbulence in the skimmer. When I go to Bayside and see his BK in action (I know.. .way better quality skimmer), their turbulence is almost nothing compared to mine... and his pump is pushing more water through? Maybe I'll look into modding a bubble plate in.
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10-29-2009, 06:08 AM
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Colby has which model of BK?
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10-29-2009, 07:59 PM
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Oh! You could try a meshmod to the impeller. Just be prepared to manually start the skimmer should you have to turn it off.
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10-30-2009, 04:44 PM
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Sounds like fun. I didn't really want to add another pump (for recirc mod), but this looks interesting. I understand why it's more effective than the needlewheel, i don't really know if i want to start messing with the impeller just yet. If anyone has a link to a bubble plate being added to this thing, please let me know.
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10-30-2009, 05:38 PM
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You can try a halfer meshmod by throwing some enkmat over the existing pinwheel without shaving off any of the other pins if you want to do a 'test run' prior to a full on commitment.
As far as adding a bubble plate goes, you might as well pick up one of these: http://www.vertexaquaristik.com/prod...ies/in-180.php Would be ten times easier than buying and machining the acrylic then cutting open the body to get it nestled in there. *In the best interest of full disclosure, I should probably mention that I work for the distributor of BK's and Vertex...
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