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Smiddyt
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2016 11:47am
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Hello,
I finally received the last parts of my solar set up yesterday so now I have to start connecting everything together. My 448 sq ft cabin has a kitchen in it and eventually we will build a separate building for a bath house. I don't have the gutters up to collect water off of the house but that is going to be in place soon. We do collect water off the carport to supply the animals and do sponge baths.
All that being said I will have electricity soon and so need to set up a way to get water into the kitchen and then to the bathhouse. My wife does not want an RV type faucet, so I need to set up a pump to fill a pressure tank so the water comes on when we turn the faucet. I have the basic concept in my head but am hoping someone can tell me house to set this all up.
I have a 12v pump and have run pex to the kitchen but have not installed the faucets.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Smiddy
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FishHog
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2016 11:56am
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why not an on demand sureflow pump. Turn on the facet and the pump turns on and pumps water. Simple, works no need for a pressure tank.
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Mike 870
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2016 12:15pm
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Just put the tank inline, after the pump on the cold water line. Look up the thread size of your tank ahead of time and make sure you have the right hardware to go from pex to the tank. For a 450 sq ft cabin a 20 gallon pre-charged tank is probably adequate. You should be able to adjust what is called cut in and cut out pressures on your pump. Basically the pressure that the pump turns on, and off. If you have already run pex, you have all the skills needed to do this, it's not hard.
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Mike 870
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2016 12:18pm
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Also the tank can be anywhere on the cold water line that is convenient.
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Smiddyt
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2016 02:11pm
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I bought a Seaflo pump from Amazon thinking that it was the Surflo that everyone was talking about. I think it will work for my purposes. Fishhog will this work for what you were saying or do I need a tank?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DLKT4OO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&ps c=1
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Mike 870
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2016 03:16pm
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at 1.2 GPM you are going to love the efficiency, but I think you will be disappointed with the water flow. I would want a tank to allow the pump to take it's time building up water and pressure and then deliver more GPM without cycling every time you turn the faucet on or off. I don't know if it will work well with a tank because I only see a cutout pressure of 35 psi listed. It will get water to your sink, but I might try to return it and go for something a bit more capable.
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FishHog
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# Posted: 3 Nov 2016 08:21am
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I agree, 1.2gpm is pretty low. I think you would be happier with something like this
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It works well for me.
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