Solar powered water pump

[Hookahhead]

I’m looking for suggestions for a cheaper solar powered water pump. I have a river that runs through the back of my property, but the property is fenced in before the river. This makes it a little more difficult to get to, especially to haul water. So I’m looking for a solar powered pump to pull water into the yard for me.

Where I’ll be pumping to is slightly up hill, but not more than a few ft rise. The flow rate can be fairly low, as I can fill 5-10 gallon buckets once or twice a week and be good. preferably It would come with its own panel, the yard gets lots of tropical sun. I’m also looking for something fairly cheap, like less than $30 so I can maybe get it as a gift.

Let me know if you know of anything decent fitting these specs, thanks!

 

[Ca++]

I’m looking for suggestions for a cheaper solar powered water pump. I have a river that runs through the back of my property, but the property is fenced in before the river. This makes it a little more difficult to get to, especially to haul water. So I’m looking for a solar powered pump to pull water into the yard for me.

Where I’ll be pumping to is slightly up hill, but not more than a few ft rise. The flow rate can be fairly low, as I can fill 5-10 gallon buckets once or twice a week and be good. preferably It would come with its own panel, the yard gets lots of tropical sun. I’m also looking for something fairly cheap, like less than $30 so I can maybe get it as a gift.

Let me know if you know of anything decent fitting these specs, thanks!

Pulling water suggests a diaphragm pump. This is your basic tenner version https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/32843805225.html
With a max power of 24w, you might not need a battery
20 for this 50w panel

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[Mudballs2.0]

His problem is the head of 25-30'
That pump wont do the job.
You're gonna wanna stack smaller heads and use buffer tanks

Im about to do a similar thing with pump and solar from my lower pond but its just a slope i need to contend with rise/run so i dont need to dig a big hole like you...i can put my buffer tank wherever i need to between the pond and where i want the water to go.

 

[Three Berries]

RPS Solar Pumps | America's #1 Solar Well Pumps – The #1 Solar Powered Well Pump Systems in America

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[Ca++]

His problem is the head of 25-30'
That pump wont do the job.
You're gonna wanna stack smaller heads and use buffer tanks
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Im about to do a similar thing with pump and solar from my lower pond but its just a slope i need to contend with rise/run so i dont need to dig a big hole like you...i can put my buffer tank wherever i need to between the pond and where i want the water to go.

There are two posters pal. I quoted the OP. I did reply to the 30 foot guy also, but passed out before pressing 'post reply'

I should of said..
Well pumps are often multi-stage. Like pump after pump. The head of each is added together. Lift is tricky. It's using a water pump, to pump air.
The answer could be submersible.

30 foot is only about a bar. A single stage pump would be fine. I don't know if he is digging or boring, but a 50mm tube will take one.


Perhaps think about an inverter. Make 120v in the pickup, and pump choice is much wider. Most pumps have a power lead that will reach up out the hole, to a small cabinet for your plugs. Stuff an RV might use as hook-up. No need to move around pumps worth 100 notes.

Harbour freight have a 220 notes well pump with 26 foot of lift. I'm not sure it delivers much at that height, but could just feed a booster. It's not 12v though.

 

[Mudballs2.0]

Well pumps are often multi-stage. Like pump after pump. The head of each is added together. Lift is tricky. It's using a water pump, to pump air.
The answer could be submersible.

There are two posters pal. I quoted the OP. I did reply to the 30 foot guy also, but passed out before pressing 'post reply'

I should of said..
Well pumps are often multi-stage. Like pump after pump. The head of each is added together. Lift is tricky. It's using a water pump, to pump air.
The answer could be submersible.

30 foot is only about a bar. A single stage pump would be fine. I don't know if he is digging or boring, but a 50mm tube will take one.


Perhaps think about an inverter. Make 120v in the pickup, and pump choice is much wider. Most pumps have a power lead that will reach up out the hole, to a small cabinet for your plugs. Stuff an RV might use as hook-up. No need to move around pumps worth 100 notes.

Harbour freight have a 220 notes well pump with 26 foot of lift. I'm not sure it delivers much at that height, but could just feed a booster. It's not 12v though.

watch it with the pal shit, buddy....he said he didn't want to spend thousands of dollars and yet that's the recomendation he got...he said he had parameters to work in and all you did is search aliexpress for some garbage. now you want to help him proper?! bite me

 

[Ca++]

watch it with the pal shit, buddy....he said he didn't want to spend thousands of dollars and yet that's the recomendation he got...he said he had parameters to work in and all you did is search aliexpress for some garbage. now you want to help him proper?! bite me

You are making no sense at all. Who is this 'He' you speak of, and what recommendation worth 1000s


This thread is about a guy that wants to spend $30 and I showed him something for about $50.


I can't be bothered with you. If you want to be useful here, start with learning to read.

 

[Three Berries]

Uphill.

 

[Ca++]

I wonder how long the batteries last

 

[chilliwilli]

I wonder how long the batteries last

Yeah imo with a ram pump u would still need a drop in height or the flow of a creek to work. In the second video the guy told it, for every drop u get the 7 fold raise.

 

[Ca++]

If the rise is 7 times greater than the fall, than 7 times more fell. Plus a bit more for losses.

Many of these vids appeal to the free energy chasers. They give a glimpse of something that seems to raise up water continuously. Which would be great to power a water wheel or something. There is no free lunch though. As you say, power from a moving stream has uses, or from falling water. Which is the ram pumps power. You lift water into the tube, and as it falls out, the work is done.

 

[Three Berries]

Ram pumps have been used since the earliest times

The Great Pyramids of Eqypt were ram water pumps.

The Great Pyramid and others were probably huge ram water pumps, and more.

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Despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the resourceful Egyptians devised a grand plan.Their solution to an adequate water supply was to construct masonry structures in the form of four sided pyramids on ground high enough to escape the flood waters. Into the outer structure were incorporated all the astro scientific knowledge they deemed fit, and in the inner structure were incorporated chambers, conduits, valves and plugs constituting a gargantuan hydraulic ram water pump to both purify water and pump it above the flood plain to public fountains in the nearby cities.

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exerpt from: 'ALL ABOUT HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS How and Where They Work ' by D.R.Wilson
The hydraulic ram pump is a reliable, old-time water pump that works just as well today as ever. Often called a water ram or ram, one of these simple devices can pump water from a flowing source of water (spring, creek, river, etc.) to any point above the source, and this without any power requirement except the force of water moving downhill, contained inside a ‘drive pipe‘. A 30-degree angle is ideal. Moving water contains a small amount of kinetic energy (inertia): this is the energy of water falling downhill under the force of gravity, called Fall. The ram pump is constructed to utilize this inertia to pump some of that water to a point highter than the source of water. It runs all the time, requires no fuel, needs only minor periodic maintenence.
Water flows downhill--it is moving. Contained within a pipe ('drive pipe' ) it is incompressable, almost as if it were solid. As far as physics is concerned, it is. Think of a hammer. It weighs so much...but simply laying the head on a nail does no good. Swing the hammer--it is moving. It strikes the nail with far more force than its mere weight. Inertia, object moving, stopped suddenly. Force. Or think of the old battering ram against the castle gates. Weight of log, movement by warriors, stopped suddenly by the gate. Force. Pillage and looting.
The drive pipe full of water, moving downhill, stopped suddenly by the 'clack' valve closing, Force.. against the 'check valve', opens it against the pressure in the 'high pressure' side of the ram pump. A small amount of that water (about 10%-15%) gets through and eventually ends up at the end-use area.