Started my HORIZONTAL scrubber today!
I have the tray made on which the screen will sit which is 22 inches long and made from twin wall polycarbonate sheet that is used for roofs on conservatories, greenhouses etc.It has side walls of about an inch high to keep the flow moving in the right direction. It's just over the width of the plastic canvas 10.5 inches so a potential scrubbing area of 231 sq inches on a single side! Also in the process of making a splash proof light housing that will hold up to 5 possibly 6 low energy bulbs. I have designed it so I can add more bulbs if need be and it won't take up any more room as a result. I think I shall start with 3 x 18w maybe two ( 100w) and go from there?
It can be placed at the same angle as the tray and at any height above the tray from 1inch to 12inches with full coverage of the 13.5 x 10.5 inch screen! Am going to see how one screen performs but can easily add more screens either sandwiched or end to end to make the full use of the tray. All are held in place by a plastic pin which you simply push the screens on through a hole which is in the screen itself, so there is no restriction of the flow of water being emmited onto the screen, easy as pie!
Still waiting for the postal system to get back to normal as still no sign of the pipes I ordered a week ago this Monday! When the pipe arrives I was pondering on the idea of pointing the flow of water coming out of the pipe up the incline which will be placed about two/three inches down from the start of the slope and so 'hopefully causing the water that is coming down meeting the water going up a more turbulent flow, hopefully slightly pulsed? Hope that makes sense? We shall see!
Will post photos before I install it and after providing I can work out how to upload the piccies?
Happy Scrubbing everyone!
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