Reef Angel Forum

wideawake wrote:Got mine today. Dry fitted a 1.5" fitting and it looks like it went in a few turns. Not sure if it will leak water if mounted externally.

thanks wideawake! I may be lucky since we have 40mm diameter pipes over here (1.5in=38.1mm) so it may allow a better fit.

In your bucket test I guess you verified the auto power off in case of no water?

Hudds,
Didn't try that function. Afraid frying a brand new pump. Huhu

Here is a photo comparison of the ones I have here:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx25 ... d588e2.jpg
From top to bottom: DC3000, DC5000,DC6000,DC9000,DC10000.
The new ones DC6000 and DC9000 (blue) are smaller than the older ones (black).
They all have the same connector, so they all can be used with the same Jebao cable we've been using

Fish street is now selling the jebao dc6000 and the 12000, if anyone wanted to know.

I got a jebao DC6000 from a guy on RC. It's replacing an Eheim 1262 on my 125 tall. On level 2 of 6 it's slightly less output than a 1262, at 3 it's more. Very nice little pump. Absolutely silent. My only complaints so far is none of the hose fittings provided fit the spa hose I was using with the 1262 so I had to heat the closest with a heat gun and flare it out a bit with a tapered steel rod. Second complaint is no suction side strainer protection, just a sucking hole. I had a standard black 1" male threaded strainer fitting that the collar fit around and holds in place just fine so good alternative for anyone looking for one.

My Speedwave went down
I replaced it with a Jebao one that I had spare and I'll be sending it to back for repair/replacement.

Drs1210 wrote:Fish street is now selling the jebao dc6000 and the 12000, if anyone wanted to know.

Fishstreet has these pumps on preorder only. They are out of stock for the moment. The new price quoted is higher. I bought a Jebao DC 6000 from Reefshops for $ 110 USD ( shipping included). Ordered on Sep 8th, received pump on 14th.

Dr Davaraj

I own the jebao dc12000, it is not very noisy but definately you dont call it dead silent.
You can hear a whistle when on, going louder in higher speeds.

Are you fellow "dc12ers" having the same level of noise as well or it is just mine not working properly?

can anyone post a picture of how they wire these pumps into there set up? do you plug the wire into the pump or into a spot on the controller? it looks like you skip the controller from what i understand but how does the pump get power if you do that?

You would need the cable from the store and then plug the pump into the 3 pin water proof connector, just like you do with the stock controller.

There is a DC port for the power to plug in and the 2 pin connector goes to any of your Analog or PWM dimming ports.

I was thinking about this. Its really a piggy back on Roberto's single drain Herbie type overflow. If you're not familiar with the Herbie overflow, it uses 2 or 3 drains. The idea is to use the water level module and the DC pump to you're advantage and get rid of all your mp40 and other wave making pumps. This would be perfect as wave box if you have a large enough overflow box. Say at 20% is when the drain would start sucking in air and would loose full siphon. So RA would ramp up the DC pump to run at 100% until the overflow box is at 80% full, then slow down the DC pump to 20% until the water level of the overflow is 30%. This will be a great idea for those who doesn't have the new calflo overflow and have the reef ready tanks with the back corner overflow box. As a matter a fact, you don't need a DC pump. However, I would be weary as to the constant on/off of a regular pump.
At night time, for a slow flow, instead of ramping up your pump to full power, you can do 50%. This is ofcourse dependent what percent your dc pump will be required to run to maintain a constant level in your sump.

for fast waves, instead of filling your overflow box to 80%, you can have it fill up to 50% before the dc pump slows down again. the possibilities are endless. only negative about this is you would be better off using the water level module for your ATO as well. The water level would be going up and down constantly and having a float switch i think is a bad idea.