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09 November 2017
Replacement for Coralife Fan
We got this fan to replace a fan on a Coralife Biocube 16 gallon fish tank, which was rattling and growling from the very beginning. Honestly, the fan was louder than the filter pump and the air pump COMBINED. Unfortunately, Coralife chose an oddball fan size which has limited availability. If they had made it a 40mm or 60mm, you'd have lots of options, but 50mm is not something a lot of fan makers embrace.
Fortunately, this fan is perfect for the job. It is the correct thickness, very close to the original CFM (although I really think the fan needs to do no more than produce a slight flow and introduce enough positive pressure to prevent condensation on the circuitry). Even better, it has the right 2-pin plug and exactly the right amount of wire on it to reach the plug. Be sure to note the orientation of the original fan plug when you take it out, because the plug is NOT polarized, and plugging the fan in backwards may very well fry it. After changing it out, the fan is barely audible. It has a very slight buzzing noise that I can easily live with.
If you have a Coralife tank, the cheap fan that comes with it is inevitably going to die, if it isn't garbage from day one. This fan is a very good choice to replace it.
08 November 2017
Basic rebuild kit includes most needed parts
1 of 1 found this helpful My regulator is actually a Weldmark 250 which is made by Victor and has the same housing stamping. I think the only difference might be cheaper gauges (and about $100). When my the secondary pressure gauge started climbing even with the adjustment backed all the way out, I knew I had a bad regulator. Actually, before it failed, it was "honking" at me, which probably predicted the failure.
Fortunately, it's dead simple to repair. The hardest part was probably separating the diaphragm from the housing, because it had been stuck down for years. Once you get that out, and unscrew the valve housing from the middle, you can access the valve itself. Just keep track of the order things came out, and what their orientation is, but it's really hard to put it back together wrong.
On mine, the sealing ring had decomposed and was oozing through the hole. This kit includes a new valve assembly with bonded seat (I wish this were an o-ring that could be replaced but Victor had their reasons, I'm sure.) I had to get all of the old, gummy rubber off of the valve seat. This kit included two lenses for the gauges, which I was unfortunately not able to use (mine are threaded, where these are 1/4-turn)—my fault for not checking before I ordered. I'm not sure why the friction washer is included, since it is a durable part, and mine was in pristine condition, but I replaced it anyway. All the parts appear to be high-quality and exactly identical to the original parts.
Reassembly was just as easy, and the regulator has worked perfectly since then. Hopefully it will go ANOTHER 20 years before I need to replace any parts. At less than $20 for a like-new regulator, it's a no-brainer. I'd even suggest getting one of these to have on-hand to minimize downtime (or a similar kit without the lenses). My only wish is that a kit were available with the #5 gasket (in the parts drawing), as I have another regulator to rebuild that needs it.
30 January 2020
Great performer, but bulky and odd power requirements.
1 of 1 found this helpful Upgrading from a GTX 860 Ti, the first thing I notice is that I never heard the fan. I ran several benchmarks and the performance was outstanding. I put this in a Dell T3500 workstation, so right off the bat, I noticed that I didn't have the right power connectors. For some reason, they decided that two 150 Watt connectors weren't enough, so there is a six pin AND an eight-pin connector. This isn't the same 8-pin connector as a CPU, though, so you're probably going to have to buy an adapter to hook it to some other supply rail in your PS (which I did). The next thing I notice is that it's big. Oversized. The fans are big, which is great, because bigger fans are quieter, and these fans are very quiet. The fans don't even come on until the card is under load.
What's not so great is that the card sticks up well above the top of the card retention bracket. The heat pipes stick up even farther. As a result, I could only run it with the computer half disassembled, because there just wasn't enough room. Dell has designed their workstations with standard-sized cards in mind, and the bulk of this one prevented me from lower the card-retaining bracket and from latching the hard drive carrier.
I re-sold this card on Ebay and bought a Zotac GTX970, which is a normal-sized card with two 6-pin power connectors as god intended. Its fans are not as big, but it's still quiet (it controls the fans individually, alternating them to keep the noise down). So if you've got the room for it, the MSI is a great card. Just be aware that it's taller than a standard card.