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View Poll Results: What is your SCWD setup? | |
under 500gph open
|     | 2 | 18.18% | |
500-1000gph open
|    | 2 | 18.18% | |
over 1000gph open
|    | 1 | 9.09% | |
under 500gph strained
|    | 0 | 0% | |
500-1000gph strained
|    | 5 | 45.45% | |
over 1000gph strained
|    | 1 | 9.09% | 
04-23-2005, 10:44 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
Posts: 1,238
  |  SCWD Users Poll
I own a SCWD. I really like the flow mine has developed but I have noticed that some peoples SCWD are jamming. Mine has not and many other have not. So I am starting is poll to see if anything can be learned from the setup versus failure rate in different peoples systems.
So for the poll I am calling "strained" anything with some sort of strainer or gaurd directily on the pump and "open" as any setup with a open pump intake.
Also if you could throw how long you have had your and weither it has falied or not.
Last edited by Covey; 04-29-2005 at 10:10 AM.
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04-23-2005, 10:50 AM
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#2 (permalink)
| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
Posts: 1,238
| Re: SWCD Users Poll
Oh yeah I have had mine for 4 months and it is still working fine | |
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04-23-2005, 02:25 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: SWCD Users Poll
Mine jammed repeatedly with a Mag 5. I have since bumped it up to a Mag 9.5 and have had no problems! (going on 5 months now with no probs)  _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
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04-23-2005, 03:22 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA
Posts: 215
Karma: 64
 | Re: SWCD Users Poll
No Jams with our SCWD and a Rio HF14 as a return pump. About 800gph. Going on about 12 months on a 60 gal softie tank.
Scott
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Researching NTS.......No Tank Syndrome. | |
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04-25-2005, 10:53 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
Posts: 1,238
| Re: SWCD Users Poll
Hey BL that was kinda what I was thinking. That in the higher end flow rates these jammed less. | |
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04-25-2005, 11:36 AM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Clinton Twp, Michigan Age: 27
Posts: 479
Karma: 40
| Re: SWCD Users Poll
I think I am running mine on a Mag 7. It could be a 5 I'm not sure. When I bought mine it didn't work. I had to go get it exchanged. I've had mine running for about 3 months with no other problems. I am running mine open.
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04-25-2005, 07:07 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 12
Karma: 15
| Re: SWCD Users Poll
Run two on a MAG24 (basement sump) one has jammed and one hasn't. BUT, it you dose calcium that can be why they jam. In my instance, I was working on the tank and bumped it pretty good and it quit working? | |
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02-25-2007, 09:05 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 86
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Just came across this thread after searching for polls so may as well add my two cents.
I ran a Rio 14HF on my old 55g. It was turining about 600 gph for a year and a half no jams. Now I have a scwd running on my mag 9.5 aprox. 700 gph only for 6 weeks no jams so far.
On both systems the scwd is getting water that has come from prefilter-sockfilter-skimmer-fuge-PH filter-scwd.
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30 gal AGA with sump and refugeium.DIY stand, Hamilton 175 watt MH(10K)/2x96 watt PC, Phosphate reactor, UV, Octopus 110 Recirculating skimmer. DIY overflows. | |
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05-06-2007, 10:14 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by Covey  I own a SCWD. I really like the flow mine has developed but I have noticed that some peoples SCWD are jamming. Mine has not and many other have not. So I am starting is poll to see if anything can be learned from the setup versus failure rate in different peoples systems.
So for the poll I am calling "strained" anything with some sort of strainer or gaurd directily on the pump and "open" as any setup with a open pump intake.
Also if you could throw how long you have had your and weither it has falied or not. | Mine SCWD has been working great for over 4 years now. About once a year I disconnect lines and blow it out. Can't see how much can go wrong with such a simple device. 
Scott
(crusing thru old posts  ) OmarD Silverdale, WA  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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