Aquarium air-pumps - which are best?
 

LOL funny the little tricks we try. I have actually hung the air pumps with
elastic bands. Really makes them quite.

"AlanM" wrote in message
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I have set noisy air pumps on a sponge - it made a huge difference.


On 2/9/06 10:22 AM, in article , "Richard
Sexton" wrote:

In article ,
Koi-Lo wrote:

"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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I just remembered the oher failure mode that's delamination of the
plates the windings go around. They make a heckuva buzzing racket
when this happens and it's new pump time. Heat seems to do this.
A hot pump is a dead pump.
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How do you keep them "cool" when a normal home is around 75F? What
about
outside where they have to run and it's in the mid 90s for several
months at
a time? What would make them run *too hot?* I don't think many people
would be foolish enough to cover one with a cloth.

I stuffed one inside a pillow once to shut it up. Didn't work so good
to say the least.

Fans keep things cool.

Aquarium air-pumps - which are best?
 

Yup, duct tape works too. I was at a friends house and I took a piece of
duct tape and taped the airpump in a loop (made a cradle for it) inside
the stand's cabinet. Worked like a charm, but I told them it was just a
quick & dirty fix, and they could make it look a little neater when it
came apart. Months later, that duct tape was still hanging in there (it
was a small airpump).
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"CanadianCray" wrote in message
.. .
LOL funny the little tricks we try. I have actually hung the air pumps
with elastic bands. Really makes them quite.

"AlanM" wrote in message
...
I have set noisy air pumps on a sponge - it made a huge difference.


On 2/9/06 10:22 AM, in article , "Richard
Sexton" wrote:

In article ,
Koi-Lo wrote:

"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
...
I just remembered the oher failure mode that's delamination of the
plates the windings go around. They make a heckuva buzzing racket
when this happens and it's new pump time. Heat seems to do this.
A hot pump is a dead pump.
==================
How do you keep them "cool" when a normal home is around 75F? What
about
outside where they have to run and it's in the mid 90s for several
months at
a time? What would make them run *too hot?* I don't think many
people
would be foolish enough to cover one with a cloth.

I stuffed one inside a pillow once to shut it up. Didn't work so good
to say the least.

Fans keep things cool.

Aquarium air-pumps - which are best?
 

In , on 02/10/06
at 05:49 PM, AlanM said:

I have set noisy air pumps on a sponge - it made a huge difference.

I can second that. Some pumps stay noisy even on a sponge (those go right
back to the LFS), but I've found that most noisy pumps I have were able to
be silenced by placing them on a sponge. My aquarium is in my bedroom, so
noisy pumps are not welcome.

Even on a sponge, the vibration of the pump sometimes moves it a little
bit and it gets noisy again, but repositioning it quiets things back down.


Alan

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