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I am plumbing/dry fitting a Herbie overflow. I have the two drain lines coming down from the bulkheads to the sump. One of the drain lines will be a straight shot into the sump. The other drain line will have two 45 slants. Should the main or the emergency drain be the straight shot?
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I'd use the straight shot as the main. But, I'd make sure the other one will handle the needed return flow if the primary fails.
 
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I am plumbing/dry fitting a Herbie overflow. I have the two drain lines coming down from the bulkheads to the sump. One of the drain lines will be a straight shot into the sump. The other drain line will have two 45 slants. Should the main or the emergency drain be the straight shot?
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Keep it the way you have it. You're going to be throttling the main drain anyway so any (extremely slight) slowdown from the 45's will be irrelevant.
 

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*Although I highly recommend using a gate valve, not a ball.
+1 to this

The adjustments I make to the gate valves on the two systems I maintain are around 1/32 of a turn of the gate valve wheel. Doing that with a ball valve would be frustrating to me.

Bonus points for buying a nice quality valve though :)
 

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