Tunze nano mod

Sky dancer, I never meant to start and issues or even to discredit what you said or research. What I did was ask my LFS guy and just copied and pasted info and sent it to him. In return he passed it to Roger and then what I posted is what Roget sent. The reason why I did this was I just bought the 6045 and was ****ed that there was such a little difference and was asking for clarification.

I never once said you disliked Tunze or questioned what you found but rather stated what I was sent. And I did copy and past as you can see in my reference, it even says on page 25.

All in all they are great pumps and I will continue to buy and support Tunze. I hope there are no hard feeling but rather open conversations.

Chris
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11645160#post11645160 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrismhaase
..All in all they are great pumps and I will continue to buy and support Tunze.

Chris
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I whole heartedly agree. Roger from Tunze sets the bar in customer service in my opinion, so much so making them a real hard act to follow with a wonderfull pump to boot. I dont see myself using another for quite some time. Especially after the tinkering :D

-Justin
 
I just modded my 6025 today after cleaning it :)
I couldnt find my dremel so I fond a box cutter!!! I made clean cuts where they were supposed to be and I have to say I love the extra flow in my 29. I'm thinking of buying another to mod it instead of having 3mj1200's in the tank
 
I did the wide flow moid and also cut out the inner tube. It is toomuch flow for my 70 . Im going to replace it with just a wide flow mod
 
Well I just read all 30 pages of this stuff, and tried to condense it into something a little bit more... concise. :)

I know there's plenty more info that can (and probably should) be added, so feel free to do so:
http://www.sdmas.com/wiki/Tunze_6025_Mods

I'm gonna go actually chop up my shrouds now that I'm done reading. Wish me luck!
 
Great Mods guys! Thanks for sharing! So, there are 3 mods for 6025: Basic/Standard Mod, Wide Flow Mod & the Full Blast Mod. So which 6025 mod is the most popular and the most reliable? I am thinking about modding my 6025 tonight. Thanks!
 
theyre all equally reliable. as for popularity, most people opt to do all three, but it really depends on your needs.

standard is the most popular. It increases the flow, and no other mods can be done without doing this

wide flow will make the flow wider, but not go as far. The pump still pumps more GPH but the velocity is less(water moves slower)

full blast makes the pump push all it can.



doing all 3 create a well balanced pump
 
Just a note: This MOD also increases the out put of the 6045. In my test runs I could only get the stock 6045 to pump around 850 GPH, but after the MOD's my test runs went up to 1253 GPH.

However you can save yourself some money and get about the same flow with the 6025.

Here's some of my old post's


<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9425501#post9425501 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by atvdave
OK.. I couldn't wait till the week end so I did the test today.

I went by skydancer's specs and measured 3 gal of water out of the bucket keeping the water level even as it pumped it out.

The only thing I did different was, I ran my test in saltwater (1.025 sg, I had it handy for a water change), and i did 10 test runs throwing out the highest & lowest times.

I'm VERY disappointed in my findings.

The 6045 slandered flow average was 850.89 GPH.
The 6045 Modded flow average was 1165.67 GPH.

FWIW I think you should just get a 6025 (save $30) and do the mods listed in this thread. Looks like you will get the same flow rate.

I did not test the Wide flow mod as I want my stream to shoot 3 ft to the center of my tank.


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OK.. I couldn't leave enough alone. I went ahead and cut 3 slits in the bottom of the tube to see if it would help. It did a bit.

It had a average flow of 1253.99 GPH

Still nothing to jump through hoops about.
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IMO, the most reliable mod for the 6025 is the standard one. The full blast stopper broke on all 3 of my pumps after a few months.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12761577#post12761577 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skydancer
IMO, the most reliable mod for the 6025 is the standard one. The full blast stopper broke on all 3 of my pumps after a few months.
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Being away for awhile glad to hear for the most part the mods are still kicking.

Did you mean all your stoppers broke in a few months or just the ones with full blast mods?

I have one 6055 heavily modded with a single controller (remember it in my pictures?), and a 6045 in full blast with a trimmed 6055 prop, since I no longer rely on the stoppers, I have no idea how the stoppers do in the long run.

They do plenty of "damages" in my 120g tank I ended up not adding and more powerheads in, use just these two.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12840809#post12840809 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jacmyoung
Being away for awhile glad to hear for the most part the mods are still kicking.

Did you mean all your stoppers broke in a few months or just the ones with full blast mods?

I have one 6055 heavily modded with a single controller (remember it in my pictures?), and a 6045 in full blast with a trimmed 6055 prop, since I no longer rely on the stoppers, I have no idea how the stoppers do in the long run.

They do plenty of "damages" in my 120g tank I ended up not adding and more powerheads in, use just these two.
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I have 3 of my 6025's modded with the standard mod. They have been working just fine now. I"ll give'em a few more months, and if there are no problems I"ll mod my 4 6055s with the standard mod too.

When I had the 6025s modded with the full blast, the stoppers "broke" or fell off.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11633711#post11633711 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skydancer

Mark my words... in 5 years the 610X will look like the nanostream. There is so much potential in this design and we all like small powerheads in our show tanks. Don't we?

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looks like you were right. =)
 
i just did the standard mod to my 6055 last week and wow what a great pump now. all 4 of my nanos are modded
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11985884#post11985884 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by treylane
Well I just read all 30 pages of this stuff, and tried to condense it into something a little bit more... concise. :)

I know there's plenty more info that can (and probably should) be added, so feel free to do so:
http://www.sdmas.com/wiki/Tunze_6025_Mods

I'm gonna go actually chop up my shrouds now that I'm done reading. Wish me luck!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
 
I assume that this works for the 6045 as well since the mod is done to the housing that both of them use. So, for those of you who have modded a 6045, what type of increase have you seen in your flow?
 
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