Many thanks and one question.

[kfick]

Roger,
I'd like to thank you for great customer service and helping me out with my 9015. It had the 50hz impeller and just couldn't quite make enough foam to make it over the cup. You sent me a new impeller and it works great. I actually ended up buying the foam extraction unit. My bioload on my 90g is very light and the 9015 cup would skim too dry and get the neck too dirty in about 2 days and then the foam production would slow down. I guess I should have bought a 9010!

The extraction unit skims so much better than the cup, it was worth the extra money. It will skim either wet or dry. I run the screw full open and I get about 150ml a day of a nice brown tea. It can even go a week or two without cleaning too!

Anyways, I was wondering if the Universal pump Mini 5024.04
is thermally protected? It has a very low head max of 0.7m so what happens if it has a little too much back pressure? I'm paranoid of pumps melting in my sump. I want to run a phosban reactor (flow through chamber) with it for about 60-70gph and am worried if it gets dirty or clogs the pump might suffer.

Thanks for running such a great outfit!
-Kurt

 

[rvitko]

Thanks! I have used a 5024.04 on my plant tank for 4 years now. I used it for the 7074.50 CO2 Reactor which was a product I developed. You can imagine this is a harsh environment. The intake clogs with leaves, sometimes the pump gets locked up by too much CO2 and basically runs dry. I have broken the pump but never had it melt down, I am now on my 3rd pump but to be fair the first one was for prototype testing and suffered a great deal of abuse and it is running on a pretty lush 180 so leaves jamming the pump is a fairly constant battle. It is thermally protected. I would not worry about it but it is a very small pump and a bit fragile as a result of just being tiny (about the size of two small matchboxes stacked) You can break the shaft out of the pump if you get overzealous with cleaning or it runs dry for a long time.