Anyone silence their float valve?

[monkeysee]

Anyone here with a one of those mini-PVC float valves (mine was packaged from HydroLogic) mounted on a RO water reservoir?

Anyone have any quick & clever tricks to get rid of the splashing?

If the output was a threaded pipe or something, I could easily just attach a tubing and let it run down to the bottom. But it's not, it's just this little... odd-shaped hole.

I'm thinking best way would be to just have a V-shaped channel run diagonally down to the bottom, and line it up so that the valve splashes on the channel... but there's gotta be a better way?

 

[Lazyman]

Never had a noise problem with those, if you have a lid on your res and you insulate it (water heater blankets are awesome + cheap!) it should help. I would also think of gluing a nylon string to the inside of the res with some epoxy and tie it to a sponge so the water hits the sponge. I assume it doesn't splash much when your res is full so maybe you just need it at the bottom for when its empty?

 

[monkeysee]

Well, I have a pretty large (275gal tote) container for R/O storage, and as you can imagine it takes some time to fill up and quite a distance on the way down. Pretty annoying to hear the constant water pouring down when I'm working in there, but I'll live I guess.

 

[dunkybones]

Lazyman has your easy fix, tie a string (or rope, depending on how fast the flow is) around the output of the valve, and the surface tension of the water will make it run down the string and not splash into the res. A weight to supply some tension on the string and to keep it in place will help.

 

[monkeysee]

I will try the string thing (yours a little different than Lazyman's take on the string/sponge). Might need more of a rope, as you mention; 3/8" output from a 700ppd+ GE Merlin.

If that don't work, I'll either try a solid V-channel or just deal with it.

Thanks!

 

[Lazyman]

Stainless steel mesh or nylon mesh will also help break up a stream of water, but you'd have to build a little shelf to support it under the float valve.