Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-31 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Our farm had a hydraulic ram pump at one time for stock watering. Pump is still in the barn. It takes a bit of water flow, but if you have it it'll run 24x7 for decades. There's only one moving part. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-31 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
dnesday, May 31, 2017 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update OK, then you need a bigger dam with hydroelectric to run your pump to fill your water tank. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: Any pump will need winterizing. The problem wi

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-31 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
We were in Argentina staying at this little hotel and they had a small turbine in a stream that ran past the place. They had a small dam (like just a foot high, the stream was pretty steep and ran a good amount) up about 150ft from the little turbine house and ran a 4" PVC pipe down to it. Ma

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-31 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
M Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update OK, then you need a bigger dam with hydroelectric to run your pump to fill your water tank. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: Any pump will need winterizing. The problem with a windmill is that the pon

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-31 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
OK, then you need a bigger dam with hydroelectric to run your pump to fill your water tank. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > Any pump will need winterizing. The problem with a windmill is that the > pond is down in a hole. Its man made, the

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-31 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
et. I like Mitch's idea of solar on the pump house but its another panel/charge controller and battery. Better to use 110v, its not a huge run, maybe 100 feet... -Curt From: Meade Dillon To: Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 7:05 PM Subject: Re

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
How about a windmill? Use the wind to drive the pump to fill the tank, have a powered version for back-up. https://www.etsy.com/listing/257221071/build-your-own-windmill-diy-plans-water?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_b-craft_supplies_and_tools-tools_and_equipment&utm_c

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
ll want to go up to the garage so another 10' or so... -Curt From: Mitch Haley To: Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update 12v sump pump in a floating cage, feeding a 5/8" garden hose? Naw, too much

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
12v sump pump in a floating cage, feeding a 5/8" garden hose? Naw, too much voltage drop running a 12v motor that far from the cabin... Can you get a self priming 12v pump that can suck all the way from the pond? Mitch. > On May 30, 2017 at 5:22 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > Oh I shou

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
pond, not a well so we don't need the pump output we would otherwise. -Curt From: OK Don via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: OK Don Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update Why not just run a small generator when you need to pump water?

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Back in the 50's cottagers on Lake of the Woods had water towers with big galvanized tanks on top (or had the tank on the roof of the cottage). They would use a gasoline engine powered pump to fill the tank periodically from the lake and then gravity would provide water in the cottage sink and

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Why not just run a small generator when you need to pump water? Should be simpler than running a 115v motor from solar/batteries. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2017 07:09:04 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > > > LED lights have gotten there,

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Tue, 30 May 2017 07:09:04 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > LED lights have gotten there, IMHO. I hope that all of your lighting is > non-incandescent. If not, that'd help. Fans and pumps you can't do > much about. What about the power-factor controllers for inductive loads? Craig

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
rom: Jim Cathey To: Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update LED lights have gotten there, IMHO.  I hope that all of your lighting is non-incandescent.  If not, that'd help.  Fans and pumps you ca

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
LED lights have gotten there, IMHO. I hope that all of your lighting is non-incandescent. If not, that'd help. Fans and pumps you can't do much about. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe

[MBZ] OT: Solar update

2017-05-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Wanted to give you folks an update on the solar at camp. As a reminder we've got 2x 100w panels, 2x 35ah lead acid wheelchair batteries and 1x 110ah deep cycle battery.The charge controller is a 30a Windy Nation. Our solar siting is poor but improving as we do some logging, still need to cut som