Sick and Tired of Waveline pumps

Aquattro · #1 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 · #2 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

xenon · #3 11-09-2015, 11:00 PM

I setup an EcoTech Vectra L1 pump on our new invert system and the amount of water it flows is so impressive. I am feeding 8 tanks and its set @ 40%!!!

If you can wait, apparently they will be available for sale in Canada in February.

daplatapus · #4 11-09-2015, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by xenon

I setup an EcoTech Vectra L1 pump on our new invert system and the amount of water it flows is so impressive. I am feeding 8 tanks and its set @ 40%!!!

If you can wait, apparently they will be available for sale in Canada in February.

What are they like with head pressure though, that's the killer for me. Probably somewhere between 12-14' of head.

EDIT: just checked it out - probably just shy of 1000 gph....

xenon · #5 11-09-2015, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

What are they like with head pressure though, that's the killer for me. Probably somewhere between 12-14' of head.

The output of this pump is 1" but I used a 1" to 1.5" bushing to convert it to 1.5" and its pumping water up a 1.5" line 6' into a manifold that T's off 9 times (8 tanks + external skimmer). Each tank has two 90 degree elbows before the water hits the tank. That is a ton of head pressure if you ask me.

Each tank has baffles so that I can separate the shrimp/crabs/snails/etc so its a flow through design. The bottleneck of my system is the 1/4" teeth in the baffles. The drains can handle more flow but the teeth can only handle so much.