Can 6060 or 6080 be controlled with aquacontroller?

[wakeboarder2342]

Im sure this has been asked before but i cant get the search to work!!


I have an aquacontroller jr and i was wondering if i can use this to turn my 6080 and 6060 streams on and off for wavemaking? seems like i have heard you cant do this and i cant figure out why? is it an issue of wearing them out?

what if i went with long on and off cycles, like 10-15 mins or something like that?

any advise is appreciated, i dont wanna buy new streams to control them but i guess i can if i have to!

thanks

 

[Creetin]

I believe the answer is no, The soft start isnt really a usefull feature, and wont work for tunze's. I believe and roger will soon be here is atleast 1 hr off before restart.

 

[rvitko]

Yes, since a prop pump only works in one direction a brake system is necessary to stop backwards rotation and it would be like driving with your foot on the brakes, they get shredded and the pump overheats and fails.

 

[rvitko]

The minimum is 1hr.

 

[wakeboarder2342]

Well i broke down and ordered a wavebox! so ill keep my non controlled tunzes and rely on the wavebox for my wavemaking

 

[MJAnderson]

I thought the minimum was 15 minutes? Or was that for a different pump?

 

[rvitko]

6060 and 6080 have brakes- 1hr

The new Nano Streams do not have brakes and they use a different method to correct the rotation so 15minutes is possible.