Juwel Motorhead Burnout!

[aibo210]

Hi

I went to my tank tonight and thought that filters quiet! Then I found out it was not running I toke alook at the fuse nothing! toke the filter out the tank and it stinks of melted plastic I removed the impeller houseing to fined 2 melted lumps no wonder my waters been turning cloudy the last few days!

Only had the tank 5 month!

Lucky for my my externals still going had anyone else had this? and will the fumes leaching into the tank affect the fish?

 

[raptorrex]

Hi

I went to my tank tonight and thought that filters quiet! Then I found out it was not running I toke alook at the fuse nothing! toke the filter out the tank and it stinks of melted plastic I removed the impeller houseing to fined 2 melted lumps no wonder my waters been turning cloudy the last few days!

Only had the tank 5 month!

Lucky for my my externals still going had anyone else had this? and will the fumes leaching into the tank affect the fish?

ouch! how old was the filter? plus i would do a few very big water changes, and gravel vacs. there are all sorts of nasty things i plastic when it melts. can yo put up some pictures of the damaged parts?

 

[maximinimus]

The only way that plastic could have melted inside the impellor casing like that is if the impeller was not cleaned properly or it was allowed to run dry, a constant supply of water would prevent the plastic from heating enough to melt.

 

[raptorrex]

The only way that plastic could have melted inside the impellor casing like that is if the impeller was not cleaned properly or it was allowed to run dry, a constant supply of water would prevent the plastic from heating enough to melt.

unless there was a fault or crack in the waterproofing, this may well cause the type of short that could do this.

 

[aibo210]

The only way that plastic could have melted inside the impellor casing like that is if the impeller was not cleaned properly or it was allowed to run dry, a constant supply of water would prevent the plastic from heating enough to melt.

unless there was a fault or crack in the waterproofing, this may well cause the type of short that could do this.

No no cracks and not ran dry! the impellor is a clean as a whistle too! It was working fine one minute burnt out the next I dont understand it maybe a bad fuse that did not blow?

 

[raptorrex]

The only way that plastic could have melted inside the impellor casing like that is if the impeller was not cleaned properly or it was allowed to run dry, a constant supply of water would prevent the plastic from heating enough to melt.

unless there was a fault or crack in the waterproofing, this may well cause the type of short that could do this.

No no cracks and not ran dry! the impellor is a clean as a whistle too! It was working fine one minute burnt out the next I dont understand it maybe a bad fuse that did not blow?

in which case we need to know when you bought it. it is just possible that there my have been a manufacturing fault.