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CLEW
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# Posted: 22 Jul 2013 01:12pm
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Sick of hauling water! looking at installing a 12V water pump w/ solar. I need to go about 60-70 from water source then up about 10ft to fill small 30 gal tank. Not sure what pump, how big of lines or what type of solar panel I should look at. Newbie on this stuff....
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 22 Jul 2013 01:29pm
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I'm new to it as well but I've done a little web surfing and there are a lot of solar powered water pumping systems available now, for pumping vertically or horizontally. They use only one or two solar panels and the pumps work very slowly, but continuously in sunlight, to keep a storage tank full. They use them a lot for remote watering locations for cattle in Texas and stuff like that, where ranchers used to have to go out there with gasoline and generator to water the cows.
A little googling will turn up a lot of choices.
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GomerPile
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# Posted: 22 Jul 2013 02:04pm
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http://www.amazon.com/SHURflo-4008-101-E65-Revolution-Water-Pump/dp/B002XM5G70/ref=sr _1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374515976&sr=8-1&keywords=shurflo#productDetails
This pump should produce about 1.8 GMP and draw about 7 amps. Will run for many hours from a fully charged deep cycle marine battery (typically 100 amp hours, about $80 from walmart).
Either charge the battery with an AC charger or poke around for a solar panel and charge controller. Check out this:
http://www.amazon.com/Morningstar-SS-20L-12V-SunSaver-Charge-Controller/dp/B007NNHUHI /ref=sr_1_5?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1374516175&sr=1-5&keywords=sun+saver+20+a
Its a 20 amp brick that will take a solar panel and battery and give you up to 20 amps @ 12V. It takes care of charging the battery, shuts off if the battery gets too low. Nice little unit and only 6 wires to hook up (2 PV panel, 2 battery, 2 for your pump/lights/etc).
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CLEW
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# Posted: 22 Jul 2013 02:24pm
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Cool, thank you for the help!
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