hey all,
I have been running a Reeflo marlin return pump on my system for a couple years and it was a decent pump. It started to sound like it was going to throw a bearing or something, so I went back to the pumps I used to run, the Iwaki's. I put an Iwaki MD100 on my tank but the noise is quite annoying... for whatever reason, I can really hear the high pitched whine of it, but my wife says it it's okay (she's either tone deaf or just being nice...).
what would you guys recommend for a real quiet return pump? I have a fair amount of head as the return line is routed through an inline chiller on the other side of the wall. I had both the marlin and iwaki throttled back... I was thinking about maybe a Hammerhead which might give me about the same amount of flow at the returns since they are a high volume pump but it drops off quickly as they aren't really a pressure rated pump... decisions decisions....
jeff
I have been running a Reeflo marlin return pump on my system for a couple years and it was a decent pump. It started to sound like it was going to throw a bearing or something, so I went back to the pumps I used to run, the Iwaki's. I put an Iwaki MD100 on my tank but the noise is quite annoying... for whatever reason, I can really hear the high pitched whine of it, but my wife says it it's okay (she's either tone deaf or just being nice...).
what would you guys recommend for a real quiet return pump? I have a fair amount of head as the return line is routed through an inline chiller on the other side of the wall. I had both the marlin and iwaki throttled back... I was thinking about maybe a Hammerhead which might give me about the same amount of flow at the returns since they are a high volume pump but it drops off quickly as they aren't really a pressure rated pump... decisions decisions....
jeff