Awesome Waveline Pumps

[slawman]

Hi Andries,

There is a some cases on the forum of these pumps failing. Can you give us some idea of the causes if known? ie. is it the power supply, misuse, manufacturing fault?

I will note also that there are only three of four in what must be hundreds sold so maybe nothing to worry about at all.

I am very happy with my 10000 and 5000 running on my new tank but I cant really afford for the return to fail unexpectedly as it will freeze my tank if left for long (heaters are in the sump).

I notice the power supplies run quite hot so mine are well ventilated.

[Andries]

Out of the 100's of pumps we sold we had 7 back, 2 dead pumps (don't know what went wrong) and 5 with a dead transformers. The first ones RLSS released had a big problem with transformers but I only got the tail end of that, they upgraded the transformers after that but they still had a 1% return on the transformers but they believe they have now sorted it out with a new upgrade again.

In all I think they are a really good pump for the money, before they were available our only other choice for a good DC pump cost between $500-$900 and even they were not problem free.

[slawman]

Thanks Andries, I wasn't sure how many had been sold and agree that is a low failure rate even for an established pump.

Do you have the new ones in yet?

[Doomant]

I bought a waveline 10000 of Andries and the transformer died. Not only was he answering my troubleshooting questions at 10pm at night but he posted me a new transformer straight away. Has not missed a beat since. I recommend buying one of these pumps for the return on your tank Slawman.

[slawman]

Thanks Anthony,

I am running a 10000 on my return and a 5000 on my RLSS skimmer. Same awesome service experience here thanks Andries.

I was just reading a few posts about failures so it was starting to freak me out but if there are hundreds out there and only 15 or so returns thats some pretty good performance.

[Andries]

Do you have the new ones in yet?

I should have the following new range RLSS pumps and skimmers in stock end next week. All with the new pumps
R6-I (R61)
R8-i
DB8-i
DB10-i
DB12-i
R10-i
FR3
FR4
DC4000 pump
DC6000 pump
DC12000 pump

[notsomot]

Do you have the new ones in yet?

I should have the following new range RLSS pumps and skimmers in stock end next week. All with the new pumps
R6-I (R61)
R8-i
DB8-i
DB10-i
DB12-i
R10-i
FR3
FR4
DC4000 pump
DC6000 pump
DC12000 pump

Have these rocked up Andries?

[Andries]

Do you have the new ones in yet?

I should have the following new range RLSS pumps and skimmers in stock end next week. All with the new pumps
R6-I (R61)
R8-i
DB8-i
DB10-i
DB12-i
R10-i
FR3
FR4
DC4000 pump
DC6000 pump
DC12000 pump

They are now online, ready to sell
http://www.guppysaquariumproducts.com.a ... t_293.html

Andries

Have these rocked up Andries?

[notsomot]

Might be a dumb question but can anyone tell me the difference between an db10 and a r10?

[n0rk]

The pump volute design. The R10 is the classic design with a traditional volute, whereas the DB10 inverts the pump and uses the baseplate of the skimmer as a makeshift volute.