with a Flush-mate equipped toilet...I've got one, and it kicks the shit(pun intended) out of other toilets...
http://masterhandyman.com/columndetails.cfm?pubdate=19970719On the job: Michigan toilet firm is flush with success of its system
by America’s Master Handyman, Glenn Haege
We’re all proud that when people think of Michigan, they think of the Motor City and cars. But Michigan’s reputation may be going down the toilet, and from the perspective of the folks at Sloan Flushmate in Wixom, that’s a pretty good thing.
Many of you have heard me rant about the double flush and plunging problems with the new 1.6-gravity fed toilets foisted upon us by Congress. They save water, but about 40 percent of the time, they do not do the job until you flush two or more times. Sometimes you even need a plunger.
You may also recall that I recently played Sancho Panza to Joe Knollenberg’s Don Quixotelike efforts to reverse the legislation. We were able to paper Washington with a blizzard of toilet tissues proclaiming, "Get the government out of my toilet, vote for HR 859," but have not yet gotten the necessary movement out of Congress to pass the roll-back legislation.
Luckily, Flushmate, is manufacturing a unit that solves the problem and may make Michigan the seat of power for pressure-assisted toilets. Sloan Flushmate, a division of the Sloan Valve Company, makes football-sized tanks that fit inside a toilet’s water closet. When flushed, each tank expels 1.5 gallons of water through the toilet system at a speed of 70 gallons per minute. According to Joseph Bosman, Flushmates chief operating officer, that is almost three times the power of a normal, gravity-fed toilet and is sufficient to clear the toilet and the waste vent line with less water than required by law. There are no left-overs.
I went to the factory to see the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) flushometer tests that compared a Flushmate-powered toilet to a standard 1.6 toilet. The tests flush 100 specially made, marble shaped balls, out the toilet and down a 100-foot clear plastic waste vent line.
The tests were very eye-opening, because they showed that even when it looked like all the balls had been flushed out of a 1.6 gallon gravity-fed toilet, up to half of the balls remained in the toilet system. In your home, that would be waste material, lying hidden inside your toilet — not a very antiseptic situation.
The Flushmate-equipped toilet flushed all the balls out of the toilet and completely through the 100 feet of pipe.
Industry leaders have tried to persuade me that 1.6 gallon toilets are fine. They tell me that the first 1.6 gallon toilets had problems because they were rushed into production, and improperly designed and glazed. I believe that many of the newer gravity-fed designs, created in conformance with more difficult specifications, are better. But I keep remembering those ANSI test balls that stayed in the toilet system even after it looked like the toilet had been evacuated...