numberkruncher Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I attempted to make a sewage system but it didn't seem to work how I had anticipated. I dug out an area for the contaminated water outlets which quickly filled up. I put a liquid pump in the contaminated water supply which was connected to a water cleaning machine which was plumbed into another dug out area for the fresh water. Almost everything seemed to be working; except, the liquid pump in the contaminated water was not working at all. It said it was filled with contaminated water, and it was powered and plumbed in. The liquid pump was entirely submerged in the contaminated water. Is this the intended behaviour of the liquid pump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrexus47 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 same thing happened to me but whit a gas pump, one or some pipes must be conected wrong or you have clean water that is in the contanimated water pipe side of your system. or if you are using a pipe bridge then it migt be backwards. post some screenshots if you need more help (if this count as help ¯\_ツ_/¯ ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFOM Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Pump contaminated water directly from source through purifier. Works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNsingbanana Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Actually it happened to me aswell. I had a basic pump-to-vent system that was bringing water directly toi the algae terrrariums, until the clean water reserve got mixed up with a bunch of contaminated water. It continued pumping only clean water. When the clean water got exhausted, the pump just did not pump the contaminated water (was well immerged, powered and the pipes were empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numberkruncher Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 I merged and annotated a couple of screenshots of my setup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veirian Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I cannot see the screenshot very clearly but it appears that the bottom pumps are in the contaminated water? If that is the case, your purifier is connected backwards. The contaminated water goes into the green port, while the white port is for where the clean water is going to go. If I understand your setup correctly, what you are basically doing is trying to pump contaminated water into the exit port of the purifier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNsingbanana Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Yup he's right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numberkruncher Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Awww thanks; you're right!! I swapped the piping around and it started pumping Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego G. Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 something similar happened to me but can't figure out the problem. any help? (it has filtration medium) (the purifier says its not pumping) http://imgur.com/a/IMUvn EDIT: It turned out that the clean water had nowhere to go. WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TO KNOW BEFORE I TURNED FROM 12 DUPES TO 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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