116 Pinks and Blues: System Volume

Episode 116: Show Notes

I am so grateful for the members of the Scaling UP! Nation! I have the best audience in all of podcasting. To great content every week every episode, I beg the Nation! to help me by asking questions they would like for me to answer. The Nation! has responded to that call once again!

Today, a friend of the show, Eric Russo, of episode 111, asks about the rules of thumb when it comes to determining volume in a closed-loop system. If you have ever heard me speak on this topic, you know I don't trust rules of thumb. But I do accept math.

WARNING: This episode contains MATH. Today's episode is about how I use math to determine how much volume is in a closed-loop system.

Below are the calculations I talk about on the show.

Estimating System Volume:

Πr2 x 7.48 x pipe'

• Π = 3.14
• R = half the pipe diameter and then square that number (must be in feet)
• Pipe = 7.48 the conversion to get feet of pipe into gallons

Titration Drop Manipulation:

SDC / (NV / OV) = NDC

• SDC= Standard or Original drop count in ppm
• NDC = New drop count in ppm
• NV = New volume
• OV = Original volume

Volume Calculation:

(120,000 x NaNO2) / Δ x (conversion) = Gallons in the system

• NaNO2 = the lbs. Of sodium nitrite added to the system
• Δ = the change in NaNO2 in the system from your addition
• Conversion = if you are using a nitrite test (not a sodium nitrite test), you will need to account for the fact you added sodium nitrite and only tested for nitrite. The conversion will be 1.5
• 120,000 the conversion/axiom that 1 pound of anything in 1,000 gallons of water will yield 120 ppm

Nitrite test procedure courtesy of Aquaphoenix: https://www.aquaphoenixsci.com/resources/procedures/?fileid=7368

Test Species Conversion:

What we add / what we test = conversion factor

Key Points From This Episode:

• Rising Tide Mastermind [0:00:35]
• Journaling [0:04:24]
• Rules Of Thumb [0:08:38]
• Calculating The System Volume [0:10:06]
• Calculation For Pipe [0:12:32]
• Compounded Addition [0:15:45]
• Nitrite Test & Sodium Nitrite Test Procedure [0:23:11]
• Get A Copy Of 5 Minutes Journal [0:32:55]
• And A Lot More!

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Links Mentioned On This Episode:

Rising Tide Mastermind

103 The One About What a Water Treater Fears

Ep 22: The One with Tim Fulton

114 The One Where We Talk Masterminds

Robbins Research International, Inc. (Tony Robbins)

111 The One with Eric Russo, CWT

Books mentioned:

The Five Minute Journal

Think And Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill