"George Patterson" wrote in message news:M3BOi.3152$Cd7.1304@trnddc03...
Big Habeeb wrote:

Thankfully, not too late...are these really preferable over
'traditional' powerheads?

I repeat. They move more water and use less electricity.

One of the side effects of moving more water is that you need fewer of them.

One of the side effects of using less juice is that they put less heat into the
water. Admittedly, that's only a problem during the Summer, but it's the
difference between having to spend $600+ on a chiller and not buying one for me.

Have you measured a MaxiJet power consumption with a mentioned mod kit?
Power consumption drasticaly changes with the load put on the pump.
Who knows, maybe a 20W powerhead using this 20W in normal configuration
will use only 5W when used with the turbine kit and moving similar amount
of water than Hydor pumps. If not measured we cannot tell for sure.
And this is not enough to measure the current because the magnetic pumps
will have very strong influence of the power factor, so the measurement will
have to take this for consideration. The best will be to use power meter.