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03-01-2016, 12:02 PM
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Nice skimmer
Nice review.
I own an earlier version of this skimmer for 2.5 years and it worked as you say for about 1.5 yrs. It pulls awesome skimmate, quality built, easy to adjust and silent. The weak link is the absolute garbage Waveline motor they pair these with. My first motor failed, then when my backup motor failed I swapped out my DC5000 block (same pump-different impeller) from my return pump and put in the skimmer impeller. That worked for about 2 months until yup that too failed. All the while I was attempting (without success) to get a response from the manufacturer for assistance. Hopefully they've worked the bugs out and your awesome skimmer will remain awesome. 3 motors later I now have an expensive paperweight and STILL no response from RLSS.
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_________________________________________ 20 year old Hagen 100g 6' mixed reef. 36g sump with multiple broken Waveline products removed. Lights T5-LED combo. 1 Coral Beauty, 1 Flame, 1 Blue Tang, 5 Green Chromis, 2 Pajama Cardinals, Asst'd hermits & snails. 2 large boxes of broken expensive aquarium crap. 1 x VERY understanding wife. Last edited by fixerupper; 03-01-2016 at 12:04 PM. 
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03-01-2016, 04:14 PM
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I have read about the poor customer service also, its unfortunate as this is a Canadian company. Mine came with the new waveline dc6000 pump hopefully it will not share the same fate as I read its the controller that fails not the pump and I am using my apex as the controller.
https://reefbuilders.com/2015/09/09/...tein-skimmers/
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03-01-2016, 07:06 PM
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Great skimmers at the time. Unfortunately if you break anything you're out of luck. Worst customer service out there in my opinion. Im extremely surprised they are still in business.
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03-01-2016, 07:33 PM
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Yeah, I've heard it's the controllers too but that hasn't been my experience. When the pumps stopped the easiest thing (to stay dry) was for me to swap the controller first. When the swap did not work I tried switching the impeller or body. That worked right up until the last swap when I ran out of new parts to try. It's possible the controllers became so weak that a fresh impeller or body had slightly less resistance and that's what allowed them to run for a bit longer. Maybe it's time to hook those old controllers up to a decent multimeter and take some measurements.
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