well i got my new style quiet one 6000 on thursday.. i just HAD to test it out, so i stuck it in the pond long enough to see it blast a bolt of water 15-20 feet across the yard
although i did notice it was loud. anything but "the quiet one"
today i was out for the better part of the day, putting together all the fittings and ball valves and hoses to plumb this into the cls.
when all was said and done, i pulled the cls out of tank, complete with bulkhead and all. and set it up in the backyard. filled a trash can with water, and inserted the intake side of the cls into the can. and let her rip.
it worked pretty well. although it was obvious right away, that i need to reduce this cls down to like 8 ports instead of the current 20
however one thing i noticed.. this thing was LOUD.. chattery loud.. unbelievably loud. past an annoyance loud. scary loud. jet engine loud. ok, i think you get the point.. did i mention how loud it was.
i thought well, MAYBE being in the stand will quiet it down some. or maybe reducing the amount of ports will quiet it down.
anyway, this evening i have been out in the garage gluing everything together for the outside to connect the pump in. and before i screwed on the ball valves to the pump, i wanted to get a look at the impellar. you can just barely see it through the intakes and it's obvious the impellar is massive in size. so i wanted to take a little peek at it.
well i removed the cover to the impellar housing and low and behold what do i discover.. the source of the noise....
this pump came straight from the factory with a fancy TWO PIECE ceramic shaft!!!
now i may be wrong, but i cant recall the last time i saw a pump with a 2 piece shaft
it's hard to explain, and my brother borrowed my good camera for his honeymoon, but i'll try.
the shaft comes up through the motor housing, and through the impellar. then there is a small, i dont know, bearing or whatever, that the shaft fits into, which is then stuck inside the cover to the impellar housing, to hold it all straight.
well the impellar is broken off inside that little bearing, or holder thing. so it's like only the top 1/4 - 1/2 inch of the shaft is broken. therefore it seems to me, that it's allowing the impellar to bounce around inside the pump, instead of staying straight, and running quietly...
naturally i'm none to happy at the moment with the manufacturer, so i'll be calling them first thing monday morning.. not to mention sending an email tonight..
hopefully they can resolve this quickly and i can get my tank up and running...
unless i'm jumping the gun, and this thing is supposed to have a 2 piece impellar
****sigh**** where's one of cath's hugs when ya need it
