Whole TUNZE system down due to dud NEW 6201

[nemo's janitor]

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Bought two brand new 6201 streamers to add to one of my systems running 4 x 6100.10 on a 7095 controller. I Disconnected one 6100.10 and connected a 6201 to the system to check flow and substrate disturbance. To my horror the led's on the Multicontroller went dim, then OFF, then the three pumps that used to work started a quire.

:furious: Current situation.:furious:

One dead 7095 controller
Three various problem 6100.10 streamers. All screaming.
One BRAND NEW faulty 6201 that did my system.

The other 6201 and the 6100.10 are now working without control.

What did i do wrong to cause this and how to fix. :mad2:

 

[Jar*Head]

Wow, this is the first time i ever heard such thing. I would wait till Monday to get the answer and suggestion from Roger.


I am sorry to hear such thing happened to your tank. I hope all your live stock doing well till the rest of the pump fix...

 

[rvitko]

The 6201 must have created a surge that damaged the controller. PM me your email address and address and we will get the controller and 6201 replaced but the other pumps should all work without the controller.

 

[nemo's janitor]

Thank you Roger, I have been asked to return all to our distributor (George) in my country South Africa. I was just very concerned as to the compatibility between the 6100.10 and 6201 on the 7095 controller. I was told that there was no problem and cannot find any warnings in the manuals that their are.

Are there other TUNZE users using a similar configuration?

Will the new pumps also be compatible with the 6100.10s?

 

[rvitko]

Ah, sorry, I didn't see you were in South Africa. There are no issues with compatibility, this is something I have seen on a couple of occasions and it occurs when the driver board inside the pump makes contact with the motor coil due to a manufacturing flaw that has since been solved by a new board design and sleeving the board in a silicon envelope. The controller works on eight volts and it got the full 24 and was fried as a result. It was a rare problem but I have seen it twice in the US.

 

[nemo's janitor]

Thanks again, I feel a lot better. Just my rotten luck i suppose.

 

[nemo's janitor]

Good news,

Cleaned and started the 6100.10's that started screaming. All is well with these pumps. It looks like it is only the controller and the faulty 6210 that was damaged.

Thanks again for help.

 

[Stevenx2]

@Nemo's Janitor:
Where do u live in (R)SA ???
I lived in Jo'burg for 15 years before we moved to Austria.

 

[nemo's janitor]

You got it.
If you kept Marines and used to go to Exotic Aquariums you probably know me.

 

[nemo's janitor]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13408436#post13408436 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nemo's janitor
Good news,

Cleaned and started the 6100.10's that started screaming. All is well with these pumps. It looks like it is only the controller and the faulty 6210 that was damaged.

Thanks again for help.

Hi Roger,

As you know the 7095 and the 6210 were replaced by George (Tunze distributor in SA) However now two of the 6100.10 (Stators) have packed up. My customer is now blaming the faulty 6210.

Could the faulty 6210 that supplied the incorrect voltage to the 7095 have also damaged the 6100.10's.

I do not want to involve you in a bun fight so if you prefer to PM me it would be appreciated.

 

[rvitko]

I don't think this is possible. The controller gets an 8V power signal from the pumps and cannot handle more. The pumps however can take about 32V before they are dead and I see no logical way the pumps could have been damaged by this same incident. Especially if they worked for sometime after the initial incident.

 

[nemo's janitor]

Thank you Roger. It just seemed strange that two pumps went faulty within a couple of days.