Pump Needs

muleface

muleface

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I have 36 bato buckets, I am looking for a pump that can handle that amount of water movement. I am looking at ecoplus units, but I am thinking that i might need a more commercial/industrial grade pump. The design will be 1/2 piping to all the buckets in 2 big loops, with 2 water outlet to each of the buckets, so 72 - 1/8 flex lines in total.

These are on 2 - 3x12 tables, I have 110 gallon tank that will supply

any suggestions on pumps? or design?

it will look something like this...
 
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FennarioMike

FennarioMike

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I'm assuming this is a drip system that recollects a drain back to the rez? I'm thinking that the Danner 250 gal/hr would be PLENTY - but you can calculate what you'll need by figuring out actually how many gallons/hour your drip will be and multiply that by the # of drippers.
 
muleface

muleface

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This is DTW. I have a 1000gph pump from ecoplus. It doesn't seem to do the job. Perhaps my design is to blame
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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muleface said:
I have 36 bato buckets, I am looking for a pump that can handle that amount of water movement. I am looking at ecoplus units, but I am thinking that i might need a more commercial/industrial grade pump. The design will be 1/2 piping to all the buckets in 2 big loops, with 2 water outlet to each of the buckets, so 72 - 1/8 flex lines in total.

These are on 2 - 3x12 tables, I have 110 gallon tank that will supply

any suggestions on pumps? or design?

it will look something like this...
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Harbor freight .
 
FennarioMike

FennarioMike

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muleface said:
This is DTW. I have a 1000gph pump from ecoplus. It doesn't seem to do the job. Perhaps my design is to blame
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It's something in your design. The plants definitely don't eat 1000 gpd. Maybe because it's a closed loop it's bushing against a dead end? I'd think you'd need to bleed those lines to get any flow to them. What about making it a recirculating loop that returns to the tank with a valve at the end to partially close to create back pressure?
 
FennarioMike

FennarioMike

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FennarioMike said:
It's something in your design. The plants definitely don't eat 1000 gph. Maybe because it's a closed loop it's bushing against a dead end? I'd think you'd need to bleed those lines to get any flow to them. What about making it a recirculating loop that returns to the tank with a valve at the end to partially close to create back pressure?
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