Anyone experience noise from your SCWD?
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Topic: Anyone experience noise from your SCWD?
Posted By: ssilcox
Subject: Anyone experience noise from your SCWD?
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 2:21pm
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Just got my scwd hooked up last night - it is making an intermittent whirring noise - and sometimes even clicking... Just wondering if anyone else had heard this from your SCWD. BTW - running it on a Rio 12HF pump... should be around 750 gph. Thanks |
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Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 2:22pm
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I don't have one, but when I was looking into buying one, I noticed many people complaining about this on Reef Central. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ryan Willden
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 2:29pm
| I haven't had that problem. I'd check reefcentral as Adam suggested. |
Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 2:35pm
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Thanks guys. |
Posted By: Marcus
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 4:59pm
| I'm running a SCWD with a Rio 17HF and it makes a very, very quiet gear sounding noise. My skimmer and pumps are louder than the SCWD is by far and they are not very loud at all. |
Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 5:27pm
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Hmm... if it were just the whirring of the gears, that would be ok. But it whirrs for a little while... then click click click click whirrr... silent... click click click whirrr... Etc. It is the clicking that is loud. The clicking almost sounds like when your car is low on oil or you put bad gas in it - kinda like a knocking? Anywho I got the number for 3iq and I'll call them tomorrow. See what they say. Marcus - how fast is the switching with your 17hf? |
Posted By: Marcus
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 7:54pm
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Every 10-12 seconds or so. I wonder if something, like a shell, is stuck in your SCWD. Have you removed it to examine it? Maybe a good cleaning is in order. |
Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 7:58pm
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It started the clicking from the very first second it was turned on. My tank hasnt even had time to stick a shell up there. However... before I call 3iq I think I will try the vinegar trick that everyone has mentioned on RC and see if it solves it. |