Re: Water Pumps
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Water Pumps
- From: B* a* A* A*
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 05:46:19 -0500
- References: <8fc2955b.36f1e482@aol.com>
I use pumps built for lawn sprinkling from Home Depot for about 200 bucks.
Put a return to your tank off the main exit line with a valve and the degree of
water returning to the tank will control the pressure going to your plants. Hope
this makes sense,
If not we can discuss it further. Bob Attaway
Pumkinguy@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/18/99 10:48:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> alansh@sunlink.net writes:
>
> << I'm trying to figure ou what kind of pump I should buy to pump water
> from a storage tank to my patch. The tank I have has a hose fitting on
> the bottom and it will have to pump through about 150' of hose to 2
> hi/lo pressure sprinkler heads. It does not have to pump up hill only
> level or down hill. I dont wan't to buy something that will have so
> much pressure it ruptures the hoses, or is too small and it burns up
> after one month etc...
> Ala >>
> Al
> I use Goulds Aqualawn electric pumps...the small ones will run on 120volts.
> You don't say how many gallons per minute you nozzles are. The smallest Goulds
> might pump 30 or 40 gallons per minute...may be too big. They are about 400
> bucks. No problem with quality....they are built like tanks and are
> rebuildable. If you need something small like 10 gallons per minute I would
> check a plumbing supply or zimmerman irrigation. You need a pump that will
> give you the gallons per minute you want at a good pressure...many cheap pumps
> put out the gallons per minute at low pressure. I don't use pumps on my small
> patch, I just have 3 gallons per minute on a hose and use mini sprinklers on a
> timer.
> pumkinguy
>
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