AC Infinity peristaltic pumps

[JayM]

I stumbled across these on Amazon the other day while looking for a reliable and relatively inexpensive way to setup AWCs. They won't be of much use in the aquarium space for anything other than that as they are 21ml per minute minimum, up to 210ml per minute max. I went ahead and purchased two as they seemed well built and capable of transferring a gallon in about 20 minutes vs. many of the less expensive units that would take an hour longer @ 50ml per minute max. FWIW, I do have some exhaust fans from the same company installed in my stand to help with cooling and moisture build up, and I will say that they are solid, reliable units and whisper quiet to boot. Hopefully the pumps work as well as their fans. Wish me luck.

In the meantime, has anyone else had any experience with these pumps? I don't expect many, if anyone as the best I can tell they've only been available for a few months.

 

[cdemoss01]

Never heard of these before. Try to go more mainline.

 

[mmorrison55]

Ive purchased a few ac infinity products for my wife’s laser engraver and my Audio video cabinet for cooling fans. They seem to make good products, but I had no idea they were making peristaltic pumps

 

[tazyn555]

I haven’t used those pumps myself, but your experience with their fans sounds promising. Quiet and reliable is exactly what you want in a setup like that. Hopefully, the pumps live up to that standard too. If they handle a gallon in 20 minutes like you said, that’s pretty decent compared to the slower ones

 

[JayM]

Pumps came in today so I did a quick mock-up with some “calibrated” 5 gallon buckets. I set the pumps up on a counter in the garage (36” high) and set three buckets on the floor. Bucket 1 was the supply for both and was almost full. 2 and 3 were empty, and previously marked in 1 gallon increments. Connected 8’ feet of tubing to each inlet and primed. Took about 30-40 seconds before they started pumping water through the outlet at setting 10 (210ml/min). I shut them off, plugged into a wi-fi power strip so I could turn them both on simultaneously. Set the power strip to 18 minutes and turned it on. Buckets
2 & 3 each had 1 gallon of water when they stopped running - just as advertised.

Obviously long-term is still an unknown, but they’re whisper quiet on the highest setting, and dead silent on low. Packaged extremely well. Comes with 8’ of 3/16” ID tubing, lube, extra pump hose, some sort of adapter/dongle that appears to be needed if you were to use one of their controllers. Power brick has a screw on, O-ring connection to the pump and is 6 or 8 feet long. Bricks are narrow and fit side by side on a “normal” spacing power strip. Instructions are a bit vague. No mention of what/where the lube is supposed to go, nor how often it should be used. No real explanation of what the adapter/dongle is for. And no info on how to change pump tubing, nor what the typical life expectancy should be. Certainly easy enough to figure all of that out, but worth mentioning.

 

[frydaddy]

I picked up 2 of these also when they were on sale during prime days. There is a 5 minute video on their YouTube channel that explains everything.

 

[frydaddy]

 

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Pumps came in today so I did a quick mock-up with some “calibrated” 5 gallon buckets. I set the pumps up on a counter in the garage (36” high) and set three buckets on the floor. Bucket 1 was the supply for both and was almost full. 2 and 3 were empty, and previously marked in 1 gallon increments. Connected 8’ feet of tubing to each inlet and primed. Took about 30-40 seconds before they started pumping water through the outlet at setting 10 (210ml/min). I shut them off, plugged into a wi-fi power strip so I could turn them both on simultaneously. Set the power strip to 18 minutes and turned it on. Buckets
2 & 3 each had 1 gallon of water when they stopped running - just as advertised.

Obviously long-term is still an unknown, but they’re whisper quiet on the highest setting, and dead silent on low. Packaged extremely well. Comes with 8’ of 3/16” ID tubing, lube, extra pump hose, some sort of adapter/dongle that appears to be needed if you were to use one of their controllers. Power brick has a screw on, O-ring connection to the pump and is 6 or 8 feet long. Bricks are narrow and fit side by side on a “normal” spacing power strip. Instructions are a bit vague. No mention of what/where the lube is supposed to go, nor how often it should be used. No real explanation of what the adapter/dongle is for. And no info on how to change pump tubing, nor what the typical life expectancy should be. Certainly easy enough to figure all of that out, but worth mentioning.

How's this coming? I also have a ac infinity controller and exhaust fans for other abandoned hobbies.

 

[JayM]

How's this coming? I also have a ac infinity controller and exhaust fans for other abandoned hobbies.

Going great. It’s been about 1.5 months and salinity is as stable as it’s ever been. I’ve also seen a reduction in nitrate and phosphates that I can’t explain as there’s been no other changes other than changing a bit over a gallon a day vs. 10 gallons weekly.

 

[Luisn17]

Hey,

Everyone still happy with them? How’s the tubing holding up and calibration? I was looking at retiring my versas from AWC since they struggle with it, well one pump. I change 3 gallons a day continuously which should be fine for the Versa but I get an error.

I looked at the ac infinity pump and looks great and with prime days coming, it may be a good time to buy 2. But still unsure.