Return pump replacements DC?

[nashorn]

I been running a 10+ year old supreme mag drive pump.
Thinking about switching to a D.C. pump
Just wondering about the reliability of them.
Any advice or suggestion?

 

[Hitman]

I have the Sicce Syncra SDC 9.0 and love it. Zero noise and built in wifi controls.

 

[mfinn]

I been running a 10+ year old supreme mag drive pump.
Thinking about switching to a D.C. pump
Just wondering about the reliability of them.
Any advice or suggestion?

Tough to beat the longevity of mag pumps. I have a couple that are close to 10 years old.
But they are mixing pumps and water transfer pumps. Way too loud to use on my tanks.
I think the vote is still out on most of the dc pumps. Most haven't been around that long.

I'm hoping my Red Dragon pumps give me at least that long.

 

[nashorn]

I'm sure glad the wife doesn't care about the sound.
I have a security camera on my tank and what I can't see I'm able to tell if someone is off by the sounds of each pump.
Few years ago I remember a lot of people was complaining about DC pumps failing prematurely
I'm just wondering if this is still the case?

 

[mfinn]

I think most of the issues with the early dc pumps failing were mostly jeboas.
I've seen a few issues with the Vectra L1, but not so many with the Vectra M1.
The VarioS pumps are suppose to be pretty solid, but they are new too.

 

[rkpetersen]

I bought a new Jebao marine DC pump, from a quality lfs, for the aquarium I set up in April of this year. Within weeks I was seeing rust on the exposed 'stainless' steel screws and nuts. Even then, I thought it was probably just superficial. Then I saw rust starting to work it's way out of a seam between two parts of the volute/case. About this time, Triton Labs tells me my water is quite high in TIN, a major source of which is, you guessed it, rusting metal.

So, that DC pump wasn't so great. I've since replaced it with a Reef Octo VarioS-6 DC pump, which is Apex-ready and also includes an optional float switch which plugs directly into the pump's variable speed controller. Seems much better built than the Jebao pump; for one thing, no exposed metal parts. Super quiet, with higher volume flow than the other one. I guess we'll see about longevity.