hmm... not very easily, as you can see, I have to get that tube under the heatercore, there. I'd like, even, to be able to pull the heatercore off away from the wall a little more so I can properly shroud my fans coming in the front. The tube going from the resevoir to the pump is 1", which is a little bit bigger than most of my other tubing, which is 3/4 or 5/8 depending on the section. So I was hoping that that bend wouldn't affect the flow too much.. Do you think that's going to be a big problem?
It doesn't actually kink, or anything, I just have the tube cut and coming off of the pump at an angle. it's a pretty clean angle, not quite as steep as the picture makes it out to be.
I suppose I could get some extra room by removing the mounting pad from the bottom of the pump, that should let the pump sit about 3/4" lower. But that's gonna make mounting the pump a little bit of a pain. I'd probably have to screw directly into the plastic which would kill the resale value if I ever upgrade.
While we're on the subject of killing my pump, since this pump is designed to run submerged, it has no ventilation, would cutting air holes in it's case and venting it increase it's life? or create less heat for the water?
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