Minimizing plumbing/head pressure reduction/brainstorming

[GBBUDD]

I have an idea that may break the vacuum and look good at the same time.
Comment on what you all think....
I'm thinking of tapping a small tubing off of the PVC pipe entering my bog. It will be tapped where you would drill the hole that would break the vacuum.
This small tubing will feed a spitter.
If the power goes out, everything will stop, including the spitter. The spitter will now act as the vacuum breaker.
Do you all think this will work?

Yes but you'll want to keep an eye on it just like you would a spray bar building up algae

 

[poconojoe]

Ok, I tapped off of the bog pvc to feed a spitter.
I mean I literally tapped into it!
I really didn't feel like cutting in a tee with a reducer, etc.

I had a 5/16" brass hose barb with 1/4" threads. I drilled a hole in the PVC bog pipe and threaded the brass fitting right into it. I didn't even use a tap. I just put some teflon tape on it and thread it right in. It made it's own threads.
It seems to be pretty tight. We'll see if it holds. I think it will. Worse that can happen is that it leaks on top of the bog gravel.

I turned off the pump to test for any siphoning and I could hear the air gurgling through the spitter. So, it seems in fact that it works like an anti-siphon

 

[combatwombat]

Ok, I tapped off of the bog pvc to feed a spitter.
I mean I literally tapped into it!
I really didn't feel like cutting in a tee with a reducer, etc.

I had a 5/16" brass hose barb with 1/4" threads. I drilled a hole in the PVC bog pipe and threaded the brass fitting right into it. I didn't even use a tap. I just put some teflon tape on it and thread it right in. It made it's own threads.
It seems to be pretty tight. We'll see if it holds. I think it will. Worse that can happen is that it leaks on top of the bog gravel.

I turned off the pump to test for any siphoning and I could hear the air gurgling through the spitter. So, it seems in fact that it works like an anti-siphon
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Well that was easy! Even if the fitting falls out, the siphon break will still happen since you now have a hole there.

 

[GBBUDD]

Even if the fitting falls out, the siphon break

and if it falls off it better be spitting into the containment area or you may slowly empty the pond .

 

[poconojoe]

and if it falls off it better be spitting into the containment area or you may slowly empty the pond .

It's in the bog. If it fails, no big deal.