Does anyone know of a simple way to calculate the volume in gallons of a hex tank? A friend gave me one a while back and we have no idea how big it is. The panels are about 8 inches wide each and the whole thing is about 20 inches tall. These arent exact measurements, just eyeballing it...
Calculating volume of a hex tank?
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marine mike
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Without doing any math, yours sounds like the same size as mine based on your description of the panel width and height. Mine is a 25g. Hope this helps!
turningtim
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Find the volume as if it where a square L x W x D and then find the volume of the triangle shapes of the corners (L x W x D)/2. Then multiply the Triangle volume by 4 and subtract from the square volume. Then divide that by 231 to get gallons
Make any sense?
Make any sense?
srfisher17
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here's just what you need: http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/volcalc.html
Originally Posted by srfisher17
here's just what you need: http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/volcalc.html
That's exactly what I needed!!! THANKS!!!!
here's just what you need: http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/volcalc.html
That's exactly what I needed!!! THANKS!!!!
turningtim
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Excellent! Thanks, srfisher17 that will come in handy!
1journeyman
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The easiest way to tell volume on any empty weird shaped tank is to pour a gallon of water into it and measure how high up the tank a gallon goes. From there it's very simple to figure how many gallons tank will hold.