Another Fan Drive Wave Maker 10 minute DIY for Maxijet's

[Duce]

How will it work if you hook that up to the Natural Wave Power Strip....???

 

[Fishguru]

Well if you hook the powerhead up to it, would probably be pretty cool as the powerhead will be turning on and off in different positions constantly. I dont know, made it so i wouldnt have to buy one-Guru

 

[reeferaddict]

I currently have a scwd on my 25gal rr tank with a mag 18,but if I ever feel I need more movement,I will definately make a couple of these. Jorge

Does the mag18 push the scwd too hard? I was considering the same pump. Also is this a closed loop or a return? If its a return, does the overflow have any problems keeping up?


Totlxtc & Guru- Thanks for the idea :rollface:

 

[Pauley Tang]

Forgive me - but I'm just not getting it from your description and pics. How does that contraption oscillate a power head like a seaswirl????

 

[Fishguru]

Do you know how a fan oscilates?
It is basically the same thing except you attach the fancasing to the canopy, and the base moves back and forth, i didnt have the powerhead attached yet as i need to modify my canopy for my new lights.
does that help explain it? Brent

 

[Pauley Tang]

OK - I get it. From the pic, it didn't look like that was an oscillating fan (looked like a simple clip on type). Good idea.

 

[Fishguru]

A Rebirth of the thread, had a lot of requests for this link lately

 

[szeth13]

y didn't u just get a power sweep?
i have a couple n they work fine

 

[TANGBOY5000]

Jeez when I first started to read this I wasn't real clear on what you were trying to do. At first I thought you were going to put the fan in the water like a giant TUNZE stream. Now that I get it this is a really cool idea. Thanks.

 

[horkn]

y didn't u just get a power sweep?
i have a couple n they work fine

most people do not like the powersweep, since they dont seem to be built well

 

[raskal311]

sorry guys but I dont get it.... So how does this thing work? I mean all I can see in the pic is that the fan is moded with the clip from the maxijet. Is the power shared some how so that the fan takes away power from the maxijet to vary the speed? If so I dont see anywhere where it shows how to combind the two.

 

[raskal311]

ohh nvm i got it .. the fan moves the mj around .....

 

[cabenn]

Would be great to see a pic of this mounted in your tank. I would love to try it but it would mean a hood rebuild in order to fit the fan actually inside the tank.

I currently just have a piece of wood attached to the top jetting out for a clip on fan to sit on to blow air across the surface. Darn MH Spider reflectors take up too much room.

 

[Fishguru]

bump for the newbies

 

[dhnguyen]

You guys might wnat to have a look at this DIY it's quite easy to do.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=799971