Mp10es falling off!
by
, 10-26-2011 at 04:42 PM (1575 Views)
I recently purchased 2 brand new MP10es Vortech marine pumps for $22 dollars a piece. they were shipped too my store and sat in a closet for about 2 years and then went on clearance so I could not pass them up!!!! now one of the pumps is fully operational and works amazingly. However my other one does not. So here is my situation. I put the first MP10 on a few days before the second one and i left the other in its unopened package in the box in my car to show everyone how cheap I got these pumps for!
however tragedy has struck :/
Upon placing my second pump into my 100 gallon reef tank ( measurements 48 in x 24 in x 20 in) and the pump worked fine for about.. oh I'd say 5 or 6 minutes. I was ecstatic to see two vortechs in my tank! ( I am a reefer on a budget with 5 tanks. I only make a little above minimum wage at two jobs -_-) but then something happened. There was a weird noise coming from my new Vortech and no sooner had I walked over to investigate when the wet side of the vortech in the tank instantly feel off of alignment with the dry side and hit my sand bed and the dry side was flailing wildly on the outside of the tank!!!!! I was nothing short of dumbfounded.
So, I realigned the wet and dry sides several times and changed the power on the controller going from green, to blue, to orange, etc. but all yielded the same result! The wet side would only work for about 5-6 minutes then hit the sand bed causing the dry side to vibrate off of the glass!.
Now I have run just the dry side for hours and nothing has gone wrong so I believe that the wet side is the coulperate for my problems here! however I am not sure because I have never owned any Vortechs before. And being a hobbyist on a budget I would prefer to not pay $62 for a completely new wet side if it can be avoided!
So mark or anyone else please I need Suggestions so PLEASE HELP ME!