Tunze Turbelle Stream3 Pumps - Products That Last Series

Описание: Product reviews are generally written soon after a product is received. The problem with this is they do not provide info on how long a product will last. In this series, Jaron shows products that last much longer than normal. This video features his eight-year-old Tunze Turbelle Stream3 Pump.

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This video is a long-term review of my Tunze Stream 3 Pump, and it's our first long-term review. We want to do more of these videos because with most product review it's oftentimes something where somebody opens a pump, or light or whatever. They turn it on, look at it for a week and then that's it. When I buy gear, I want it to last many, many, many years. Normal product reviews do not tell you which products will be long-lasting.

This video features a Tunze Stream 3 Pump that I purchased back in 2016 which makes it 9 years old now. And I'm going to go over kind of the things that made me want to buy this pump in the first place, and then how it's held up over those years to give you the real experience.

ThisTunze Stream 3 pump was released eight years ago, and I was so excited to get the new Tunze Stream 3 because I'm a fish geek. I like new gear. What made this so special to me is first off, Tunze has a long history of making some really, really cool water pumps. Tunze had made the first propeller water pump that used a propeller versus an impeller to create flow in the tank. They also produced the first controllable pumps that actually ramped up and down to create different wave patterns. They've had all kinds of different innovations over the years. And this is the third version of the Stream pump.

What makes this Stream 3 pump very unique is it is a magnetic levitation pump. All the engineers will think that's super cool. Basically, what that means is the spinning propeller in this pump levitates inside the pump itself. There's a little tiny contact point at the bottom. There's no real shaft, and then the propeller just floats. And what that does is it means there's very, very little rubbing. And because there's very little rubbing there's very little wear on the unit itself. And also it's extremely quiet because rubbing is often what generates noise. This Tunze 4,500 gallon-an-hour powerhead is quieter than the little tiny protein skimmer in that nano tank in our office. This is just a ridiculously quiet pump.

In addition to the beefed up electronics in the Stream 3, there's also a cooling intake on the bottom of the pump. In most propeller pumps the bottom is sealed so water is sucked in through the side intakes of the propeller. But there's no water getting in where the impeller is spinning. And that creates a place where heat can build up and that heat often causes damage. Here, water is actually sucked in through this intake at the bottom to keep the whole operation cool, which helps preserve the life of the pump. In addition, the controller automatically runs the pump in reverse periodically, I believe it's every 6 hours. What that does is if there's a piece of seaweed or some debris that made its way into the pump, the pump will automatically reverse flow for just a minute or two to flush all that debris out and then resume.

For life support equipment on my fish tank, I prefer buying something of high quality that lasts a long time. Now this pump is controllable and it does have a built-in controller here. This controller has been around for 8 years because this is the same controller that's been on this pump since I bought it and it's actually something that has been updated. The new controller preserves the features of this controller that I really like. What I really like about this controller is it is not Wi-Fi. Now that may sound unusual to you. You may say "I like Wi-Fi", but I just learned there's something so simple, convenient, and easy about having a controller I go over to and press buttons on.