Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!labrea!decwrl!reid
From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: motor burnout on AquaClear filters?
Message-ID: <363@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 88 06:22:37 GMT
Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: DEC Western Research
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I really like AquaClear power filters because they are so damn convenient and
I'm always in a hurry. But I get real tired of having the motors burn out
every time there is a 1-second power glitch. Has anybody else noticed this?
All of my AquaClears fried their motors again today, so there must have been
some kind of a power transient while I wasn't home.

A replacement motor costs almost as much as a new filter, alas.
Meanwhile I use Magnum canister filters, quickly converted from diatom use to
continuous use, but the fish cower in fear behind the rocks and decorations
because of the huge flow rate of the Magnum pumps. Why are motors so hard?
Why can't Magnum sell motors that run slower and why can't Hagen sell motors
that don't burn out.