Oh sure! It's an Aquascape pump - not sure what model. It's a variable speed. Let me go double check. We actually have two Aquascape pumps that have been working for 6 and 7 years respectively - the second one is in our pondless waterfall and gets pulled out every fall.
The pond has the Aquasurge Pro 4000-8000 Adjustable Flow Pond pump. I will say that the "adjustable" part of this pump failed early on - there's a remote controlled box that controls the flow speed. Either the remote stopped working (although we did replace the battery and that didn't help) or the actual box stopped responding. Either way, we're stuck with the flow level we had when it stopped!
The other pump is an Aquasurge, too - just a smaller one. And we also have the AquaForce pump for a back up. We used it the first year over winter - pointed up to create turbulence and keep an opening in the ice. It was just a little TOO turbulent for my liking! When it got really cold, the water formed a ice dome about three feet high!
I wonder if there's a way to 'open the box' and fix it so you have full flow again...I gotta believe it is some sort of solenoid controlled valve. Or, is there a way to cut the box loose and still clamp your hose over what's left? It would bum me out if I couldn't have that feature and I paid for it. That said, it's easy to have 'full flow' and then add tees/wyes to the pump with valves to control it to suit your taste. It's what I ended up doing. Btw, from talking to Meyer last year when I was working on setting up my pre-bog mech filter, he told me I could increase the outlet size (AT the pump outlet) and gain more flow. And talking to another pro, he told me to double it--which I did. Doing so meant I was now getting what the pump could actually produce re it's specs. For some reason, when you use the opening as is, if you add up all the friction coefficients and whatnot, you get less than full flow. Increasing the size, then adding a wye with reducers, I was able to get a stronger flow to the mech filter AND still supply water to the falls. Pretty neat trick! I added valves to each 'end' so I could control exactly how fast/furious the water was coming.
Thanks for the info!
btw, do you have a pic of your 3' dome? That would be interesting and I bet was exciting for you that first winter, hey????
Michael