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    Draco drop in drum

    So my drop in drum has arrived and I’m having a good look at it and I’m confused.

    It looks like the water doesn’t even flow through the drum?

    Can anyone explain how this works?

    To me it looks like the water flows into the inside of the stainless steel drum and back out of the stainless steel drum without ever passing through the mesh??


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve9814 View Post
    So my drop in drum has arrived and I’m having a good look at it and I’m confused.

    It looks like the water doesn’t even flow through the drum?

    Can anyone explain how this works?

    To me it looks like the water flows into the inside of the stainless steel drum and back out of the stainless steel drum without ever passing through the mesh??


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    My drop in drum is on a nexus 320. This is my 2nd drum. And a bit different to the 1st
    Drum. As in waste tray.

    1st photo. Feed to nexus.

    2nd photo feed into drum. Ribbed hose. This goes into the inside of drum mesh.

    3rd photo
    Waste pipe. To drain.

    4th photo on nexus drain valve open. Used as over flow for trickle in and out. For water levels

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    Would nt let me upload anymore photos.
    Have you got it installed yet. Or are you looking at it out of the box. If installed.
    The water goes into centre of the drum.
    Then the water seeps out of the mesh. The water lowers then cleans. Then it raises back up and knocks the cleaning on the head.
    My first drum 5 years ago I had to pressure wash the mesh. As it had a lacquer on for protection.
    You also have to set your water level with the waste tray.
    In my case level with the skimmer water height.
    Also on my nexus the waste valve is permanently open for wash to drains. And trickle in and out photo added.
    Hope this helps
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    Yeah it’s not fitted yet I’m just looking at it on its own.

    Could you give me more info on how your doing your trickle in and trickle out using the drain?

    I was gonna create a new hole at water level for that. I thought the drain would be too low and empty too much?


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    On mine, the trickle in/out is via the Nexus, hose with declorinated water dribbling in to the outer ring of the Nexus, when the water gets to high it overflows into the waste chute of the Nexus.

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    Oh I didn’t realise the nexus had a built in overflow.

    So many pipes I havnt plugged it in yet to figure out what’s what


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    Steve,

    Mines been in 3 days, and its brilliant! Are you on a 220? If so let me know if you need any assistance, but i literally fitted it, switched it on and watched in amazement. There are plenty of tweaks you can do post fitment too. But i genuinlly just switched it on and it works perfectly. The hardest thing is fitting the dreadfully designed drain. Looking at the amount the Draco removes how you can run a nexus without ive no idea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve9814 View Post
    Some reason not getting notifications for other threads I post.

    Yeah it’s not fitted yet I’m just looking at it on its own.

    Could you give me more info on how your doing your trickle in and trickle out using the drain?

    I was gonna create a new hole at water level for that. I thought the drain would be too low and empty too much?


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    My older waste tray was just square flat.
    But on this new version on the nexus 320
    It slopes upwards. And I could nt get the water level. For trickle out.

    So I leveled my water to the height I wanted lined up with the skimmer. And drilled two holes in the waste tray. I have put screw driver in one hole and the screw driver tip points to opposite hole.
    So that is the trickle out. With waste valve at the bottom. And washes waste to my sewer drain.
    I trickle in. Into my top pond
    Works for my setup.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spongebob View Post
    Steve,

    Mines been in 3 days, and its brilliant! Are you on a 220? If so let me know if you need any assistance, but i literally fitted it, switched it on and watched in amazement. There are plenty of tweaks you can do post fitment too. But i genuinlly just switched it on and it works perfectly. The hardest thing is fitting the dreadfully designed drain. Looking at the amount the Draco removes how you can run a nexus without ive no idea.
    Glad you have sorted mate. Your right. Great bit of kit. And the drain waste is a pain and bad design
    Fred

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    Confused Fredo how does that hole you made in the tray trickle out?

    Maybe it’s because I havnt seen the draco in action yet.

    Does the water level sit below that tray? So you have the holes drilled right above the water level so when you trickle in the water flows through those holes and out the drain?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve9814 View Post
    I’m
    Confused Fredo how does that hole you made in the tray trickle out?

    Maybe it’s because I havnt seen the draco in action yet.

    Does the water level sit below that tray? So you have the holes drilled right above the water level so when you trickle in the water flows through those holes and out the drain?


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    Because I trickle in lol. Which makes the pond water rise.
    So when pond water rises. It rises in my gravity fed filters. If I did nt have them holes. The pond and filters would overflow
    Hope that makes sense. Bit like your wash basin. Put plug in fills up and runs down the overflow
    If I close that blue valve filter over flows
    Fred


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve9814 View Post
    I’m
    Confused Fredo how does that hole you made in the tray trickle out?

    Maybe it’s because I havnt seen the draco in action yet.

    Does the water level sit below that tray? So you have the holes drilled right above the water level so when you trickle in the water flows through those holes and out the drain?


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    Your spot on my water level is just below the holes. Rises and drains into the 2 drilled holes
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    Ah right got you. That helps me understand how the drop in drum works then.

    I was confused how it cleaned etc. I thought the mesh drum was entirely submerged


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve9814 View Post
    Ah right got you. That helps me understand how the drop in drum works then.

    I was confused how it cleaned etc. I thought the mesh drum was entirely submerged


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    On mine the drum is roughly half submerged underwater. And half mesh of drum out.

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