Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A)

ElMoIsEviL · 02-07-2006, 06:36 PM

Well I started to receive all of my new Custom Parts for my watercooling rig so I opted to start taking apart the old watercooling setup when I found something REALLY weird inside my Eheim pump.

Now to give you guys a bit of info, I've been running this pump since 2004, and it's never been removed or the water in it changed... Water was still green and still the pump worked well and the system gave me good temps.

It was inside the water intake of the pump... PAPER!! Yes it seems it was some sort of tag from the store. It was jammed inside my pump and must have been there since I got it. So the pump NEVER FAILED and was being run hard.. I mean it must have worked HARD! This Definatly is an indicator of Eheim's Quality... my three previous pumps, before the Eheim 1048A, were VIA Aqua 1300's all of which failed.

bigben2k · 02-07-2006, 06:49 PM

...and an ugly color too.

I wouldn't balme Eheim just yet; what was plumbed before the pump? Radiator? Is there any way that you could have noticed that, when you first put it together? (hard to miss, really)

ElMoIsEviL · 02-07-2006, 06:57 PM

Well I had never looked inside the pump.. see I opted to remove the fitting and thats when I saw this.

stev · 02-10-2006, 09:41 AM

That is weird!

Hey, you may get better flow now.

Brians256 · 02-10-2006, 01:51 PM

Wow! Amazing that it worked at all! Plus, that it worked well enough to cool your computer.

ElMoIsEviL · 02-10-2006, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brians256

Wow! Amazing that it worked at all! Plus, that it worked well enough to cool your computer.

Computer is cooled by a thermoelectric module. but yeah I had noticed the flowrate was low.. I blamed it on the pump not being the most powerful thing.

Now I know why the flowrate was soo bad.. makes me wish I did not buy two MCP655's now.

02-07-2006, 06:36 PM	#1
ElMoIsEviL Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 71	Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A) Well I started to receive all of my new Custom Parts for my watercooling rig so I opted to start taking apart the old watercooling setup when I found something REALLY weird inside my Eheim pump. Now to give you guys a bit of info, I've been running this pump since 2004, and it's never been removed or the water in it changed... Water was still green and still the pump worked well and the system gave me good temps. It was inside the water intake of the pump... PAPER!! Yes it seems it was some sort of tag from the store. It was jammed inside my pump and must have been there since I got it. So the pump NEVER FAILED and was being run hard.. I mean it must have worked HARD! This Definatly is an indicator of Eheim's Quality... my three previous pumps, before the Eheim 1048A, were VIA Aqua 1300's all of which failed. __________________ Asus P5N32-E SLI \| Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 4.23GHz (Swiftech MCW5002-775T 226W Pelt) \| 4x1GB OCZ Special Ops DC PC2-6400 DDR2 XTC \| 2xBFG TECH GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB Water Cooled \| Sound Blaster X-Fi FaT@l1Ty FPS Sound Card \| 2x74GB WD Raptor 10,000 RPM RAID0 \| 2x320GB Seagate 7200.10 7,200 RPM RAID0 \| SuperCooled: Enterprise Custom Cooling

02-07-2006, 06:49 PM	#2
bigben2k Responsible for 2% of all the posts here. Join Date: May 2002 Location: Texas, U.S.A. Posts: 8,302	Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A) ...and an ugly color too. I wouldn't balme Eheim just yet; what was plumbed before the pump? Radiator? Is there any way that you could have noticed that, when you first put it together? (hard to miss, really) __________________ WBTA (Water Block Testing Alliance) Nordic Hardware WC 101

02-07-2006, 06:57 PM	#3
ElMoIsEviL Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 71	Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A) Well I had never looked inside the pump.. see I opted to remove the fitting and thats when I saw this. __________________ Asus P5N32-E SLI \| Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 4.23GHz (Swiftech MCW5002-775T 226W Pelt) \| 4x1GB OCZ Special Ops DC PC2-6400 DDR2 XTC \| 2xBFG TECH GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB Water Cooled \| Sound Blaster X-Fi FaT@l1Ty FPS Sound Card \| 2x74GB WD Raptor 10,000 RPM RAID0 \| 2x320GB Seagate 7200.10 7,200 RPM RAID0 \| SuperCooled: Enterprise Custom Cooling

02-10-2006, 09:41 AM	#4
stev Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: niagara falls Posts: 96	Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A) That is weird! Hey, you may get better flow now.

02-10-2006, 01:51 PM	#5
Brians256 Pro/Staff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Klamath Falls, OR Posts: 1,439	Re: Weirdest thing ever! (Eheim 1048A) Wow! Amazing that it worked at all! Plus, that it worked well enough to cool your computer.

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