SCWD Wavemaker - Switching Current Water Director
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Topic: SCWD Wavemaker - Switching Current Water Director
Posted By: sterling18
Subject: SCWD Wavemaker - Switching Current Water Director
Date Posted: March 09 2010 at 9:59pm
| Does anyone have one, do they like it? |
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Posted By: arthuriv
Date Posted: March 09 2010 at 10:34pm
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I have the smaller one on my 55 gallon tank. Its been on there for about 6 months or so now. It has worked great but I think I need to take it off and clean it because I don't think it is switching any more. I'm not sure exactly how easy it will be to clean since the small one doesn't come apart for cleaning like the large one does. I'm thinking of getting one of the larger one for my new 210 gallon tank! ------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 1:11am
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I've never been impressed with them. They take a lot of energy to switch. Energy that could be used in moving water. IMO, linear water movement gets an unfair bad rap.
For changing flow direction, in tanks from 10 to 100 gallons, I love the "poormans wavemaker". It's very powerful. I wrote about it in an old thread you can find in the Tips and How to's section of my much older thread: http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 - http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: Chad
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 1:47am
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I use them on all of my setups a couple of them have been moded and all of them have been bored out to not restrict the water as much and I think they work awesome and for the money you can't beat a good cheap wave maker. ------------- What?! You pooped in the refrigerator, and ate the entire wheel of cheese?! I'm not even mad.... That's actually amazing! |
Posted By: fishoutawater
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 8:55am
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I have used a couple of them for years as well. Like Chad, I bore out the inlet and outlets to ease the flow restriction. To clean, I just put the pump and scwd in a bucket of vinegar and let run for a few hours when they start sticking. Sometimes to get them started you can smack the body of the scwd with a screwdriver handle and it will knock it loose.
For the price of the larger one you might want to consider getting one of the OceanMotions units on a tank that size. ------------- Some day, when I grow up,... |
Posted By: skimace7
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 11:22am
| I have two 3/4" on my 120 gal... I love them. They have been running now for 1 year without any problems. |
Posted By: Corey Price
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 1:02pm
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I have a better device for sale- a three-way ball valve with electric actuator. The actuator allows you to define your switching delay.
(Shameless plug...) |
Posted By: arthuriv
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 7:07pm
How much and do you have any info on it?
Thank you!
Arthur ------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
Corey Price wrote:Posted By: Corey Price
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 7:37am
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$225.
It's a 1-1/2" Plastomatic three-way ball valve with electric actuator. The ball valve is a true-union type with threaded ends. |
Posted By: Corey Price
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 7:38am
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(Thread was inadvertently hijacked)
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Posted By: providence
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 2:53am
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I added the 1" last week and I love it I raised my flow and the corals and fish love it and have longer polyp extension
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