Self Starting Water Pumps

[Scatocephalus]

I need a submersible water pump to run a wet/dry that will start up back up on its own after a power outage.

I've tried a number of them over the years and have yet to find a reliable one. I'm at this moment flushing out my 125 because the pump quit qorking sometime last night. Fortunately, other that a very cloudy tank, it looks like I will only lose one fish. Not happy about it but it could have been much worse!!

The two I am looking at are QuietOne and Mag Drive.

Any idea on these two brands? Any other you can suggest?

 

[Mem]

I need a submersible water pump to run a wet/dry that will start up back up on its own after a power outage.

I've tried a number of them over the years and have yet to find a reliable one. I'm at this moment flushing out my 125 because the pump quit qorking sometime last night. Fortunately, other that a very cloudy tank, it looks like I will only lose one fish. Not happy about it but it could have been much worse!!

The two I am looking at are QuietOne and Mag Drive.

Any idea on these two brands? Any other you can suggest?

Personally I run a mag drive but the key to mine restarting is in my overflow. I have a line run from a barbed fitting to a powerhead in the tank. When the power kicks on the powerhead helps to insure I have vacuum in my overflow therefore not overflowing my tank. I have this after trial and error considering I live next to the beach and lose power often during storms. Hope this helps.

 

[Dr Joe]

Sorry for your loss, glad it wasn't worse.

Both are good pumps, with the mag drives being the heavy weights.

My question is why yours didn't restart? They are all basically the same.

What were you using?

Now if it lost prime thats a different story and you need to look into self priming pumps or redesign your over-flow.

Dr Joe

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[Scatocephalus]

Sorry for your loss, glad it wasn't worse.

Both are good pumps, with the mag drives being the heavy weights.

My question is why yours didn't restart? They are all basically the same.

What were you using?

Now if it lost prime thats a different story and you need to look into self priming pumps or redesign your over-flow.

Dr Joe

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The overflow is not the issue. It is the water pump.

The impeller just doesn't start rotating when power is restored. You have to jiggle the pump, take the impeller housing off, stick something up there to unbind the impeller, etc. I don't know what is causing it to bind up but it seems to be a common problem with submersible pumps. And it seems to happen wether the pump is clean, dirty, new or old.

 

[Dr Joe]

I've lost count of all the pumps I've gone thru over the years and I've never had a "common problem with submersible pumps" that wasn't traceable to poor maintenance, poor manufacturing or electrical surge/brownout.

Mag drive, Iwaki or high end little giant pumps may better suit you.

Dr Joe

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[johnptc]

I WOULD USE MAG DRIVE UP 1200 OR MAYBE THE 1800.........

FOR RELIABILITY RUN TWO SMALLER PUMPS IN PARALLEL