MP40's Sold Out

Ross B Reef'n · May 27, 2020

Anyone in the know on what's going on with MP40 supply? Was finally going to order 2 more and now their gone.

Robinson · May 27, 2020

Probably because from June 1 they are going to start shipping the new Vortech and Vectras models that are Mobius firmware ready. This new pumps are going to be controlled right away with Mobius. This may explain why they are running out of stock at this moment.

Letterkenny · May 27, 2020

Robinson said:
Probably because from June 1 they are going to start shipping the new Vortech and Vectras models that are Mobius firmware ready. This new pumps are going to be controlled right away with Mobius. This may explain why they are running out of stock at this moment.

Where’s the source for this?

tsouth · May 27, 2020

Letterkenny said:
Where’s the source for this?

Vectra and Vortech firmware change to Mobius on June 1st

The news we’ve all been waiting for from EcoTech Marine is here. From June 1st all Vortech and Vectra pumps will be manufactured with Mobius firmware installed. That means that the latest pumps will be controllable via the Mobius app alongside recent generation Radion LED lights, and the...

blog.marinedepot.com

Letterkenny · May 27, 2020

tsouth said:
Vectra and Vortech firmware change to Mobius on June 1st

The news we’ve all been waiting for from EcoTech Marine is here. From June 1st all Vortech and Vectra pumps will be manufactured with Mobius firmware installed. That means that the latest pumps will be controllable via the Mobius app alongside recent generation Radion LED lights, and the...

blog.marinedepot.com

Literally just found this as you posted. Thanks.

Nburg's Reef · May 27, 2020

I just ordered an MP40 and get it tomorrow... good to know its just firmware changes, and not hardware.

ca1ore · May 28, 2020

Ross B Reef'n said:
Anyone in the know on what's going on with MP40 supply? Was finally going to order 2 more and now their gone.

Lots of things have been OOS because apparently there's a pandemic going on …..

ca1ore · May 28, 2020

Robinson said:
Probably because from June 1 they are going to start shipping the new Vortech and Vectras models that are Mobius firmware ready. This new pumps are going to be controlled right away with Mobius. This may explain why they are running out of stock at this moment.

Except Tim at ETM has said many times on these boards that vortech pumps (maybe vectra too) have been shipping mobius ready since early 2019 …. so that dog don't hunt! My guess is that June 1st is when mobius will turned on for vortech/Vectra.

Ross B Reef'n · May 28, 2020

ca1ore said:
Lots of things have been OOS because apparently there's a pandemic going on …..

This is a worry I had, potentially making me go to some non reputable source on the dark web to find them.

Nburg's Reef · May 28, 2020

ca1ore said:
Except Tim at ETM has said many times on these boards that vortech pumps (maybe vectra too) have been shipping mobius ready since early 2019 …. so that dog don't hunt! My guess is that June 1st is when mobius will turned on for vortech/Vectra.

Or they just put a sticker on the box advertising... lol

WVNed · May 28, 2020

I was excited. Late last year I bought 2 MP40s. Mobius was coming, SOON. Everything was ready. SOON. I bought 2 MP60s. cause SOON. It's working in the beta test. Here it is working in a video. SOON.

I needed more flow so I just bought 2 Tunze 6155s.

Ross B Reef'n · May 28, 2020

Also would prefer not to shoot myself in the foot like I did when purchasing my hydra HD's and the next gen came out the next month. Also dont want to be stuck without the 2 additonal pumps for too long. What a catch 22.

Ross B Reef'n · May 28, 2020

WVNed said:
I was excited. Late last year I bought 2 MP40s. Mobius was coming, SOON. Everything was ready. SOON. I bought 2 MP60s. cause SOON. It's working in the beta test. Here it is working in a video. SOON.

I needed more flow so I just bought 2 Tunze 6155s.

I've considered this, but have a strict no cord in the tank policy. I doubt Tunze would have an issue. But just 2 months ago I put two hydor's pumps in my tank and 2 fish jumped.

WVNed · May 28, 2020

Oh it's going to be a pain. I will have to modify my tops for the cords. I don't like them either.

But I have enough money invested in a company that seems to play silly games with its customers.

ca1ore · May 28, 2020

Nburg said:
Or they just put a sticker on the box advertising... lol

Apparently that is EXACTY what they will do

. FWIW, this marketing gem makes no sense whatsoever …..

Vectra and Vortech firmware change to Mobius on June 1st

The news we’ve all been waiting for from EcoTech Marine is here. From June 1st all Vortech and Vectra pumps will be manufactured with Mobius firmware installed. That means that the latest pumps will be controllable via the Mobius app alongside recent generation Radion LED lights, and the...

blog.marinedepot.com

It has been possible to go into ESL and check to see if your existing kit is mobius ready (already has the requisite card) or mobius upgradeable (requires the card that ETM has been selling on their website for weeks). Maybe some really old stuff is also mobius out of luck ….. So what, if anything is different starting June 1st? Probably it is just turning on mobius so prior mobius ready devices are discoverable, and maybe download a new firmware, but it would be nice to know that for sure. Though I guess in my case its somewhat academic because I have no plans to use mobius.

ca1ore · May 28, 2020

Ross B Reef'n said:
Also would prefer not to shoot myself in the foot like I did when purchasing my hydra HD's and the next gen came out the next month. Also dont want to be stuck without the 2 additonal pumps for too long. What a catch 22.

So call ETM and ask them. As I noted, ETM stuff has been shipping with the black RF card for a while now so you're not going to have a hardware problem. If a new firmware is required …. well, that will be downloadable so you're not going to have a software problem. There's no physical change to the pumps AFAIK …..

AZMSGT · May 28, 2020

The pumps aren't physically changing, it might be a firmware update to adapt to Mobius. @ca1ore is correct on all their comments, from what has been posted by people that actually know what’s going on.

If you find the pumps, and need the pumps buy the pumps. It’s only 40s that are out of stock. The reason is simple. It’s the most popular pump and parts to build them have been in tough to get.

Me personally, I’m not switching to Mobius anytime soon. It’s been nothing but buggy and problems.

Robinson · May 28, 2020

ca1ore said:
Except Tim at ETM has said many times on these boards that vortech pumps (maybe vectra too) have been shipping mobius ready since early 2019 …. so that dog don't hunt! My guess is that June 1st is when mobius will turned on for vortech/Vectra.

I think there is a lot of confusion about what this new is about. From June 1st the NEW Vortech and Vetra pumps are going to be controlled only by Mobius (hardware and firmware ready). The sticker in those boxes is for let the user know that they have to download the Mobius app in order to control the pump via bluetooth. These new pump are not going to be RL compatible unless you downgrade the firmware to make them compatible with RL. Yes, Tim has said many times the the previous vortech, vectras and radions from maybe 2018 up are ready (hardware), but they are still missing the (firmware update) Once they release the update for those then they will work with Mobius. The article from Marine Depot establish that only the new pumps will work right away with Mobius and that later at some point the others that are already hardware compatible with receive the update.