It sounds like a fun little test, if you get a roll of pex long enough to do it all in the trip, get a suction at the bottom and keep both sides in water after it gets flow. Its all in priming and next maintaining prime Jerry
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:51 PM William Miller <will...@millersolar.com> wrote: > Colleagues: > > > > All of our water pumping customers to date have been pumping water to > tanks higher in elevation than the well-head. Just now I am looking at a > system pumping to a pond that is lower than the well-head and lower even > than the bottom of the well. The 300’ well has the head at 1200’ elevation > and pumping to a pond at 800’ elevation. The line goes over a 1500’ > ridge. If there were nothing impeding the water flow, would it not siphon > to the pond? > > > > Has anyone seen the basic physics available being used to advantage? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > William > > > > Miller Solar > > 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 > > 805-438-5600 > > www.millersolar.com > > CA Lic. 773985 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the > other: > https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/ > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > http://www.members.re-wrenches.org > >
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