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I have an old under the sink H2O water filtration system. Its main components are 2 cylinder type filters, one 2.5 gal. storage tank, one passive mechanical "switch" plus a birds nest of plastic tubing with zero leaks anywhere. The output (dispenser) is your standard gooseneck type with a plastic lever to allow water output.
This is the problem: After I output water everything is normal, no hydro thumping, then after abt 5 minutes I hear and can feel to the touch this thumping at about every 900-950 ms.. a bit faster than one unit of time. It will thump until the cows come home if I do nothing.
This has been going on for years! I kid you not, no problems except for that blasted noise. It's driving me nuts!
One way I have been able to stop it is by turning on the output slowly then turning the lever down very, very slowly until the small stream of water starts to drip and then very, very slowly stopping the drip until no more output.
My method seems to work abt half the time. I do believe, but without any scientific method to back me up, that slamming the water off during a full-on output could cause air in the line thus the thumping, but that's just a guess.
People, this has been driving me nuts for a long while and hydraulic thumping in my world can be very, very bad.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or possible solutions.
Physics rules!
Alex
This is the problem: After I output water everything is normal, no hydro thumping, then after abt 5 minutes I hear and can feel to the touch this thumping at about every 900-950 ms.. a bit faster than one unit of time. It will thump until the cows come home if I do nothing.
This has been going on for years! I kid you not, no problems except for that blasted noise. It's driving me nuts!
One way I have been able to stop it is by turning on the output slowly then turning the lever down very, very slowly until the small stream of water starts to drip and then very, very slowly stopping the drip until no more output.
My method seems to work abt half the time. I do believe, but without any scientific method to back me up, that slamming the water off during a full-on output could cause air in the line thus the thumping, but that's just a guess.
People, this has been driving me nuts for a long while and hydraulic thumping in my world can be very, very bad.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or possible solutions.
Physics rules!
Alex