bilge pump crap
 

guess you guys already know what OCH puts in their res/pump combo..

http://amarino01.homestead.com/files/OCHbilgecrap.jpg
http://amarino01.homestead.com/files/OCHbilgecrap2jpg

just wish I'd found out b-4 i wasted the money on it. :(

What happened?

it started making a horrible racket and failed after about 6 weeks...

bilge pumps aren't designed for continous operation.

Was it rated for continous operation?

No it wasn't. This is a "Rule" pump:
http://www.rule-industries.com/pumps.htm

designed to provide water pressure for faucets in RV campers, or boats.

Definitely not for continous duty...

Damn,even when it worked it had to add alot of heat to your coolant.
That's definately a crappy pump setup from a outfit.

haha another person finding out first hand

yep, I found out the hard way, and I'm just passing along the info to help others avoid buying this piece of craptastic hardware.

Will it be hard to put a more suitable pump in as a replacement? Little Giant and Iwaki make some small submersibles that you can find from time to time on ebay...

thats what id probably do. the res is nice, its just a crap pump. put something good in there and youll be all set :D

I'm thinking about trying to find a pump that will fit, but for the time being I picked up a 6x6x4 direct burial box from Home Depot along with a 350gph beckett pump and I've got that running for temporary. till I can decide exactly what i want to do.

man, I am so glad I got the 145 gph centrifugal (spelling, I know, GTA3 sucked my brains out) pump in mine.

-WireX

I'm pretty happy with this ghetto home depot reservoir and pump right now...

I'm gonna look around, maybe build me a pimp clear reservoir or something...


in the meantime this works ALOT better than the OCH setup ever did, and its MUCHO quieter

I wish i never brought one now. I cant say i want warned :(

Ihave one too, wish I didnt, it is BUZZING bad now, not much time left on it. Is there a better pump that will fit in that res? I need saving without alot of work, man I just dont have the time to make an elaborate setup.

How is the Becket pump?

I have a puny Becket pump (the smallest model, some 60GPH) got it cheap at Home Depot. Very quiet, puts out very little heat and has been runnning 6 month straight without a flaw (it runs dry sometimes too cause i'm too dumb to refill the coolant after cleanup) Definitely a economic choice

it may not be an expensive eheim or anything, but it is WAY quieter than that POS bilge pump every was...

I'm getting better cooling using the beckett pump too...

maybe a small via aqua would fit?

sad to see you get ripped off in such fashion...

I love my Beckit, I'm using the 210GPH model, and it has no problem with taking care of 4 CPU's and a chipset, all at once....
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dang, that res setup looks kinda like mine!!! except with brass outlets instead of those monsters ya are using!! best thing about this beckett is that i could get it locally, same day my POS bilge pump died..

I think I am going to take my POS CPUFX bilge pump out and use it as my res and add a eheim to my case. I cant even get them to reply to any emails on the issue. They are hiding from the pissed custmers.
If you look on OCH web page, you cant even find them for sale any more, onlyteh little mag drive pump. Sigh.....

Of these 2 pumps which is best. I like that the 158 GPH has 1/2 inch fittings on both in and out, but I like that the other pump is 317 GPH, what do the gurus think?



1048...Centrifugal pump
Pump output 600 l/h 132 lmp. gal./h. 158 U.S. gal./h.
Delivery head 1,50 m/wat.col. 4 ft. 11 in./wat.col.
Power consumption 10 W
Hose connection (suction side) Ø13mm (1/2")
Hose connection (pressure side) Ø13mm (1/2")
Dimensions: lenght x width x height 147 x 75 x 118 5.8 x 3 x 4.7 in.


1250...Centrifugal pump
Pump output 1200 l/h 264 lmp. gal./h. 317 U.S. gal./h.
Delivery head 2,00 m/wat.col. 6 ft. 7 in./wat.col.
Power consumption 28 W
Hose connection (suction side) Ø17mm (3/4")
Hose connection (pressure side) Ø13mm (1/2")
Dimensions: lenght x width x height 180 x 95 x 120 7.1 x 3.8 x 4.7 in.

get the 1250 then you can expand later if you want to.

I cool the cpu P4 2.2 @2.75 and my vid card.
Will Ihave to get fittings for my 1/2 hose I have now?