Sick and Tired of Waveline pumps

Myka · #1 11-09-2015, 01:48 AM

What happens when the controller dies? It doesn't have variable speed or it doesn't work at all?

The Codfather · #2 11-09-2015, 01:58 AM

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=96980

daplatapus · #3 11-09-2015, 01:03 PM

Myka, when the controller dies, everything dies

Fishy,Fishy: I was under the impression (when they first came out) that Waveline were the top of the line. These are definitely NOT Jabeo pumps.

Codfather:You are my hero! Has it been working well? Mind if I pick your brain a bit? My boards are way different than yours, but I don't mind poking about a bit to figure out what's going inside. Unfortunately my boards are also not as nicely identifying what wires are doing what. Here's a pic of the latest gen board:

The wires in the top left are what's coming from the AC/DC Meanwell power supply. The black, White and green wires are headed to the pump. I tried metering them out with my voltmeter but the readings were haywire, constantly moving all over the place. Any idea's?

daplatapus · #4 11-09-2015, 01:21 PM

This is the power supply they're using:

_Adrian_ · #5 12-29-2015, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

This is the power supply they're using:

$35 ebay special

I'm gonna be using the 480W version as its only a couple bucks more

Myka · #6 11-09-2015, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

Myka, when the controller dies, everything dies

Fishy,Fishy: I was under the impression (when they first came out) that Waveline were the top of the line. These are definitely NOT Jabeo pumps.

Well that's lame. I didn't read all that other thread. Wouldn't there be a fairly easy way to just go around the controller and use it as an on/off pump? Or, could you buy a controller from a different pump (they have replacements I think for other brands, don't they?) and integrate it?

Everyone thought the Waveline pumps were top of the line until the big players released DC pumps that were in the $500+ range and we realized that the Waveline is a cheaper model (and performs as such). Not as cheap as the Jebao, but it may as well be with all the failures.

daplatapus · #7 11-09-2015, 01:50 PM

Ya, what's weird is with the 1st generation controller I got with the pump, I was probably pushing over 1000 gph. According to the factory charts I should be able to push over 1300 gph at 12' of head, so I figured it was probably close.
A friend had their's running far earlier than mine, but it fried the controller because of poor cooling design. RLSS sent us all new controllers even though I hadn't even run mine yet. My friend ultimately shut their tank down and got out of having a tank because of the damage everything caused - but that's a whole other story....
So I finally have mine up and running and since I still had old controllers, I decided to run them side by side with the new controller to see the difference when I filled up my 210. I'm running 2 separate returns that run side by side so the comparison should be spot on. Well the new controller I bet doesn't put any more than a few hundred gph. It totally sucks compared to the old controller.

I would TOTALLY be open to running it wide open with no control. With the head pressure I'm running at I need all I can get. I just need to figure out how to make that happen without burning up the pump

Aquattro · #8 11-09-2015, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

I would TOTALLY be open to running it wide open with no control. With the head pressure I'm running at I need all I can get.

Why not just run a regular pump? I don't get the variable control thing if you're going to run it wide open anyway?

daplatapus · #9 11-09-2015, 10:55 PM

My biggest selling point on the DC pumps is vibration. No matter how much I isolated my Reeflo Barracuda or my Laguna pond pump, you hear it vibrate through the floor. With the DC pumps, they are DEAD silent. No vibration what-so-ever

And as hard as it is to conceive... that tiny little DC12000 (when the controller was working as it should) pushed as much water as the Reefflo Barracuda

FishyFishy! · #10 11-09-2015, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

Fishy,Fishy: I was under the impression (when they first came out) that Waveline were the top of the line. These are definitely NOT Jabeo pumps.

I was talking for like red dragon, abyss, ecotec etc. As far as top of the line.

I had to run a powersource similar to that one, but due to the moisture in the fish room, it too eventually died.