I'm a bit disappointed tonight. When the wwd's were coming out I sent all 4 of my vortechs in to be overhauled and serviced so that they'd be like new with the new controllers. I did this as I was having issues with the ones on the back of the tank holding on and they were early run pumps so I thought...get r done and I won't have to worry about it. If my memory serves me I spent about $250 for the overhaul for all 4 pumps.
2 pumps have been operational on the sides of the tank and have been performing well. The glass is 1/2" on the sides. I did notice that in reef mode one of the pumps semed to be running hotter than it should. At first I thought that I might be checking it when it was ramped up all the time as they are in anti-sync but it kept feeling hot so I switched the master slave around and it seems to be much better now.
I've been messing with the tank a couple hours a day over the last few days as it needed some quality time and I'm getting ready to replace all the lights and rerig my light system so I wanted everything done before the lights get here Wednesday.
Started scraping coraline off all the glass panes, I've taken pane maintenance lessons from jnarowe,
and moving the side vortechs yesterday and changing them over to reefmode. I moved them up a bit, one to the front and the other to the back of the tank and that is going well.
Tonight I scraped the back panel which is 11/16 total thickness as it's 1/2" glass with black acrylic over it. Started setting up one of the vortechs and it doesn't seem to be holding very well. Get it all lined up, plug it in and it falls off. No big deal maybe it wasn't aligned right as I can't see through the back and have to do it by feel.
I noticed with the new drivers the pump doesn't shut off automatically when it gets disconnected. Not only this one but one of the side ones I did yesterday...curious and a concern. Anyone else notice this?
So I get the better half to come out and plug the power in once I get them aligned so I can hold them together and adjust them after it starts. Lined up, start, every time I loosen my grip it starts to slide down. Changed wet sides. same thing only not as bad. Seems to be holding and I start adjusting the flow up and down to get it where I want. I noticed the dry side sliding down again.
Didn't bother trying to hook up the other one. It's late, I'm tired and frustrated. I'll give it a go tomorrow and let you know how things turn out.
Plus the fact that the ones on the sides are fine and I don't feel like taking them off to swap them around with the back ones. Maybe it's just me but I think I should be able to take them out of the box, hook them up, plug them in and they should work. Maybe I expect too much.
