Take a look at this pump

Soja

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My grandpa saw me putting together my wc setup a couple weeks ago so today he gave me a pump he had no use for. It was packaged and never opened. Here's some blurry pics:

Anyone use or heard about this pump? Can't believe it is spec'd @ 600gph for a 12v? Since I hear all these horror stories about the via 1300 it's nice to have a free extra pump on hand for that rainy day

 

nealric

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careful of the bilge pumps
I ran one for a while. Two problems:

Loud (I had to almost raise my voice to be heard over the machine- it took loud music to drown it out)

Its a BIG draw on the psu.

 

JFettig

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another thing is reliability, and what the max head is, It could have a 3ft max head wich would cut that down to about 60 or even 30gph really quickly.
so you really dont know.

Jon

 

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Imacrzyprsn

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i hate noise

 

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Looks pretty cool, although the possible downsides are kind of a killer. Could do a test system and see how it runs.

 

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Soja

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Yeah I searched bilge pumps on the forums and I guess they're loud (which turns me away from using it already) and unreliable w/ a short running time @ 24hrs 7 days. Hopefully my via won't die for a good while...

 

UnLoadeD

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Most bilge pumps aren't rated for continuous duty cycle. That would be the first thing I'd check out.

peace.
unloaded

 

WejRepus

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yea, aren't bilge pumps designed for short start-stop cycles?

 

Toysrme

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@ 24hrs 7 days

Click to expand...

Or 8 days

Obviously you mean 24/7/365. I just couldn't resist

 

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http://productimages.vstore.com/products/m393/p1879393/large.jpg

larger pic of the 1000GPH model

It looks like crap to me. Sure it can pump 500GPH (HA) but i agree with all you guys.

http://www.vstore.com/cgi-bin/pageg...agev4/itempage.spl&prodID=1879393&catID=23651

 

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Soja

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Toysrme said:

Or 8 days

Obviously you mean 24/7/365. I just couldn't resist

Click to expand...

I bet it'll die before 8