Jebao powerheads... never again

[Bent]

OW series is the latest as of September.
I've had a RW that is over 3 years old and a PP that is a year and half with zero issues. I switched over to the latest CP-40 and gave those to a buddy to run in his tank, still going strong.

So you dig the CP over the R dubs? I've come close to buying one.

 

[Bronx19]

They'll be out of two letter combinations by the end of 2018.

 

[Cheapreef]

So you dig the CP over the R dubs? I've come close to buying one.

Yep still like the CP-40 over the reg wavemakers. I run a single on my SPS dominant tank works great.

 

[Bent]

Yep still like the CP-40 over the reg wavemakers. I run a single on my SPS dominant tank works great.

Add it to the list!

 

[pisanoal]

I have 4 RW-8's. I shelved them for an mp-40 and gyre 150, then decided I wanted more randomized flow so went to add a couple back in. I knew one didn't work, come to find out 3 of the 4 don't work. 1 doesn't turn on, 2 turn on and then stop turning within a couple minutes. 1 works like normal. One of those 4 is a replacement from one that died within a couple months.

I do have a wp-25(I think?) that I bought way before those rw's and it still works. I have a jebao doser that has worked great for 18 months, and a jebao dcp return that I've only had for 6 months.

~50% failure rate for me.

I think after my recent experience trying to use my rw8's again, i'm through with jebao powerheads. So far, i've had good luck with their other products.

 

[Punchanello]

Brands like Jebao are cheap enough for me to worry about and just a bit too expensive for me to say, "you know what, if it karks it, I'll just buy another one".

 

[frankv702]

I’ve tried to use jebaos but they just die to often for me. I had a jbj45rl with two rw4s and I replaced them once in 4 months. The new ones aren’t but a month old and one is stuck on continuous cycle and the other doesn’t even spin.. they’re junk to me. The return pumps are good for like a month and then it’s like they hit a brick wall and barely move any water. On my main tank I’ve had vortechs and just recently had to replace the old WES wetside with a QD wetside.

 

[Mknuwet]

I’ve had a dozen of them. I’ll continue to buy them. They are getting better and better. I use them in all my tanks. Rarely does one fail for good. They just slow down in flow a bit if not cleaned well

 

[tkeracer619]

you went through 3 of them and it still cost you less than a replacement piece of a vortech pump.

also i've been using them for years and have never had to replace a single pump... the only time i've switched them out is when i upgraded or downgraded my tanks. i think i've had 3 different sets... all the way to the first jebao ever put out.

Not to turn this into a vortech is better than... everytthing post but I woujld still have a first release vortech going if I hadn't dropped it in water a month ago. How many does the op need to buy to make it 9 years?

 

[Daddyrawg]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the PP series the latest model of the Jebao Wavemakers?

I've had a PP-8 for a year and another for 8 months. I turn them off every time I feed, so twice daily (minimum). Never had an issue with them (knock on wood).

You run 2 PP-8's on your 90 ? would 1 be ok and the other side a cheap PH?

 

[RobZilla04]

You run 2 PP-8's on your 90 ? would 1 be ok and the other side a cheap PH?

Depends. I just upgraded to three PP-8 since the top half of my scape is SPS and I'm increasing the light intensity.

Flow > Lighting as far as importance. Lots of folks are coming around to this these days, myself included.

 

[d0ughb0y]

if you have pre-conceived notion a pump will fail, then it will be self fulfilling prophecy and will fail.

I have an all jebao tank and runs just fine for years. power heads, dosing, return, skimmer.

 

[Syntax1325]

if you have pre-conceived notion a pump will fail, then it will be self fulfilling prophecy and will fail.

Huh??????




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