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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: motor burnout on AquaClear filters?
Summary: Comparing power filters
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Date: 11 Apr 88 01:29:28 GMT
References: <363@bacchus.DEC.COM>
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Reply-To: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In-reply-to: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)

In article <363@bacchus.DEC.COM>, reid@decwrl (Brian Reid) writes:
> 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.

Hmmm... just when I was considering buying an AquaClear.  I currently have a
Whisper, but I find that Whisper's aren't really auto-start. I switch them off
before feeding, and about 50% of the time they don't start up again when I turn
the power on -- I have to jiggle the inlet tube to get it to start.  Not hard,
but annoying, and also possible to overlook.

It would be nice to have some discussion on good and bad power filters.  Could
you take a couple of minutes to say which filters you have used (mention
names!), whether you were happy or unhappy with them, and why?  Particular
features you liked or disliked?

I'll post a summary to the net if you e-mail your responses; on the other hand,
this group isn't exactly swamped with articles, so posting is fine too.

-- Ashwin.

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