Sequence Dart users?

[Dez]

Mine's always been insanely hot. It's 3rd hand and I've been running it for 2 years.

[e46er]

i have a snapper hybrid which also came with the dart impeller to convert it to a dart mine is running as a snapper now because my CL was only piped with 1 1/2 pvc but its not hot hot i held my hand on it for 10 sec and it never to to the point of uncomfortable

[Lampshade]

There's 2 different motors, and they run much diff. tempratures apperently. The Baldor I have is warm, but never hot. There's another motor they have that doesn't have cooling fins around it, forget who makes them, but that one apperently runs hot.

[plutoniumJoe]

I have the larger Baldor motor and it warm but never hot.

[lastlight]

The cheaper AO Smith motor runs much hotter. I believe Sequence has returned to only using Baldor motors but I'm not 100% on that.

[Parker]

All three of mine put out different amounts of heat, one is like yours, a little too hot to touch for very long another I could hold onto all day long, it warm but not hot and the third falls in between.

[Delphinus]

Interesting how it's so variable. Robb, are all 3 mounted similarly in terms of the inlet side plumbing? I use 2" plumbing on the inlet side, and this is huge .. they say you can step it down to 1-1/2" without consequence and I've seen this, so I would have thought that the 2" compensates for the one 90 degree bend I have right at the bulkhead. But then I do have a strainer on the bulkhead inside the sump. Maybe I should try removing this and see if I notice a difference.

I think mine is a Baldor motor. It has a fan on the end, I thought the AO motors were fan-less. But what's weird is that the motor core is much smaller than other Dart pumps I've seen that have fans. So it seems there are more than just 2 options out there for the same pump model..

I tried putting a 4" box fan on the floor blowing laterally onto the pump to see if that would cool it off, it actually didn't, so I took it off. Might as well save a few watts on electricity if it's not doing anything.