Ok the condensate drain on my heat pump was, imo, inadequate. The overflow was originally plugged and it had a shallow trap on the primary drain. After getting a wet floor a couple of times, I figured it was time to try to fix the problem.
I went to the hardware store and the smallest trap I found was 1 1/2"... the 3/4 traps they had were all shallow traps, and my heat pump (Carrier FV4A005) instructions specially said do NOT use shallow traps. So, with a couple of adapters, I made the 1 1/2" trap work.
Of course I did not want to have a wet floor again, so I ran the over flow to a bucket. Now I have read mixed things on whether or not an over flow should be trapped.... so instead of making it look worse than it already does at the moment, I made my own trap by filling the bucket up with water until it got to the bottom of the over flow pipe.
So my end result looks like this:
Now the problem.... the bucket that the overflow goes into... it keeps filling up. over half the piping in the primary drain is new and I thoroughly cleaned the old stuff. I disconnected the primary at the hose clamps and ran water through it and I saw water flowing at the 2" WYE. Is it because the discharge of the over flow is lower than the trap on the primary?
I went to the hardware store and the smallest trap I found was 1 1/2"... the 3/4 traps they had were all shallow traps, and my heat pump (Carrier FV4A005) instructions specially said do NOT use shallow traps. So, with a couple of adapters, I made the 1 1/2" trap work.
Of course I did not want to have a wet floor again, so I ran the over flow to a bucket. Now I have read mixed things on whether or not an over flow should be trapped.... so instead of making it look worse than it already does at the moment, I made my own trap by filling the bucket up with water until it got to the bottom of the over flow pipe.
So my end result looks like this:
Now the problem.... the bucket that the overflow goes into... it keeps filling up. over half the piping in the primary drain is new and I thoroughly cleaned the old stuff. I disconnected the primary at the hose clamps and ran water through it and I saw water flowing at the 2" WYE. Is it because the discharge of the over flow is lower than the trap on the primary?