I recently bought a DC programmable pump that also serves as a wave maker and you can program it to create different waves, both in period and intensity.
It's an Eco DC4000 which I got from Your Choice Aquatics by way of the LFS.
I've seen this pump sold on the Internet by other companies for $200 but I only paid $130. I like the programability and it pumps over 1000 gph @ zero head.
Unfortunately I can't recommend it, because it is throwing an error code quite frequently when I attempt to start it. Sometimes it will start on the second try and usually must retry every 10 seconds, for as many as seven times before it starts.
The manual of operations, such as it is, is written in a terrible sort of engrish. You have to get to the very end of the instructions, before it tells you that the pump starts immediately when you plug it in, and that in order to turn it off you have to press the F button four times.
The manual is about the size of a postage stamp and you'd better have a magnifying glass to read the thing.
As long as it starts every time I'm not going to get rid of it yet, but it is no way reliable enough to go on either of the big tanks. It has a Timed-off feeding mode that allows the pump to come back on in your absence. That's the last thing that the manual tells you about and that's when you find out that in order to turn the pump off you always do it through the feeding mode.
That assumes that you get through the microscopic instruction manual on the first read. I did not and I managed to shut the thing off by virtue of a separate switch, until I decoded the complete manual.
Anyhow my money says look for a better pump than the Eco DC series
It's an Eco DC4000 which I got from Your Choice Aquatics by way of the LFS.
I've seen this pump sold on the Internet by other companies for $200 but I only paid $130. I like the programability and it pumps over 1000 gph @ zero head.
Unfortunately I can't recommend it, because it is throwing an error code quite frequently when I attempt to start it. Sometimes it will start on the second try and usually must retry every 10 seconds, for as many as seven times before it starts.
The manual of operations, such as it is, is written in a terrible sort of engrish. You have to get to the very end of the instructions, before it tells you that the pump starts immediately when you plug it in, and that in order to turn it off you have to press the F button four times.
The manual is about the size of a postage stamp and you'd better have a magnifying glass to read the thing.
As long as it starts every time I'm not going to get rid of it yet, but it is no way reliable enough to go on either of the big tanks. It has a Timed-off feeding mode that allows the pump to come back on in your absence. That's the last thing that the manual tells you about and that's when you find out that in order to turn the pump off you always do it through the feeding mode.
That assumes that you get through the microscopic instruction manual on the first read. I did not and I managed to shut the thing off by virtue of a separate switch, until I decoded the complete manual.
Anyhow my money says look for a better pump than the Eco DC series
