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Posted by Ridley Scoot on June 14, 2008, 3:27 am
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>> Hello! I placed an order through hurricanefilter.com for one of their
>> overflows on 6/2 (today's 6/7) and still have gotten no feedback but
>> the order auto-verification email from Yahoo Shops. I've emailed them
>> using all the addresses I can find on their website. No phone is
>> provided but I called the number filed with their registrar (apparently
>> going to an individual) and left voicemail. To reiterate, there's been
>> no response so far.
>>
>> I'm worried because I placed orders at two other vendors later the same
>> day and both of those shipments have already arived but my tank doesn't
>> get off the ground until I can plumb in the sump with this overflow box!
>>
>> Now I'm faced with trying to find one locally again and having two
>> overflows if Hurricane ends up shipping my order. I already know my
>> really local LFS doesn't stock them but will try to get them to special
>> order one since it's possible they have a local distributor they could
>> get one from quickly. Will try the other stores that are around the
>> area too, but none are very local and there aren't very many. Failing
>> all that I'll place another order (most likely) through
>> drsfostersmith.com since they seem to have really fast service.
>>
>> Anyone else have experience with Hurricanefilters.com to know if this
>> is a normal turnatround time or not?
>>
>> FWIW they have not charged my credit card yet - still listed as a
>> pending transaction.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -Ridley
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> I just got notice from Yahoo Shops that Hurricanefilters has shipped my
> overflow. Better late than never! :)
>
> I'm not overly impressed with the Eshopps model PF-800 I got in the
> mean time (very noisy sucking water/air and seems not as well designed
> as the no name one I had on my 75gal freshwater tank back in the 90's.
>
> We'll see how the Hurricane does when it arrives.
>
> -Ridley
"Not impressed" is an understatement. The Eshopps overflow was
unquietable. Between the air it was sucking at the top, the gulps of
water it was periodically flushing down the standpipe and the resultant
gurgling/bubling water turbulence in the sump, it was loud! Worse it
failed 5 of the 10 power-outage tests, being unable to restart its
siphon even with the aid of a venturi port on a powerhead.
I made a Hofer Gurgle Buster verbatim per the design and it was little
help. I revised that design heavily to mostly quiet the box itself,
then I invented a bubble arrestor box for the sump that worked really
well (eliminated 99% of the bubbles in the sump from the overflow and
some noise) but still wasn't silent.
I hooked up the Hurricane Filters Quietflow 600 yesterday and it's DEAD
SILENT at the top and bottom. No fiddling required - not even a
breather tube for the standpipe. So far it's passed every
power-outage test as well - not even a hiccup so I have no plans to put
a powerhead on it. (My first overflow which was similar to this one
in design never lost its siphon once in the 10 years or so I ran it,
and to my knowledge where it's running now, it still hasn't had that
problem - no powerhead was ever used.)
Slow or not, in the future I'll be taking my business to Hurricane
Filter. (And thankfully I got store credit at the LFS for that
Eshopps thing even though it had a 1" PVC pipe cemented into
bulkhead....many, many uses for store credit!)
-Ridley
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> overflows on 6/2 (today's 6/7) and still have gotten no feedback but
> the order auto-verification email from Yahoo Shops. I've emailed them
> using all the addresses I can find on their website. No phone is
> provided but I called the number filed with their registrar (apparently
> going to an individual) and left voicemail. To reiterate, there's been
> no response so far.
>
> I'm worried because I placed orders at two other vendors later the same
> day and both of those shipments have already arived but my tank doesn't
> get off the ground until I can plumb in the sump with this overflow box!
>
> Now I'm faced with trying to find one locally again and having two
> overflows if Hurricane ends up shipping my order. I already know my
> really local LFS doesn't stock them but will try to get them to special
> order one since it's possible they have a local distributor they could
> get one from quickly. Will try the other stores that are around the
> area too, but none are very local and there aren't very many. Failing
> all that I'll place another order (most likely) through
> drsfostersmith.com since they seem to have really fast service.
>
> Anyone else have experience with Hurricanefilters.com to know if this
> is a normal turnatround time or not?
>
> FWIW they have not charged my credit card yet - still listed as a
> pending transaction.
>
> Thanks.
> -Ridley