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Originally posted by Cathar
Oh my. What do you think happened that caused your pump to do that (so I can avoid the same thing myself)?
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I'd say because it's a cheap chinese pump made from cheap chinese plastic, I didn't like the "feel" of the plastic from the start (very brittle, low tensile strength) I wouldn't have thought that even this big pump would have enough pressure capability to bust it's self. I had it running by it's self with the small nozzle for some time, it wasn't untill I hooked up the other pump in series that it broke, the straw that broke the camels back?
I'm going to have a look at my local aquarium shop tomorrow (they can source "some" Iwaki pumps) to see if they can get a MD-30RZT (the high pressure model) looking at the PDF file for it it has a max pressure of 24psi
imagine around 20psi at 900 odd L/H
