Will a WaterMate Pro with pump be able to pump water from a source 15m to 26m away, with a 1m head?
I bought a WaterMate Pro that I'm yet to assemble. I intend to use it to water a no-dig vegetable patch at a remote site that I visit only once or twice a week.
There's a small stable between 15-30m away from the vegetable patch which I can add guttering to, and I was intending to connect this to an IBC tank for water storage, and have the WaterMate Pro's pump fed from there. The vegetable patch is 1m higher than said stable ( so 1m head ).
The leaflet in the WaterMate Pro box says that it can only pump from up to 10m away. However when I was looking on the Harvst website, a couple of quotes made me *think* that the pump would be suitable for my use-case:
> The WaterMate Pro pump can provide water for many tens of metres of pipe, and up to 5m of vertical head.
> We provide 4m of inlet hose ( between the water tank and the pump ) but the system will run with at least 10m of inlet hose and a 4m vertical head.
I'm guessing the first is a mis-read on my part, and is referring to the outlet side of the pump. Is the second one a typo, and should it read "with at most 10m of inlet hose"?
Hi Deejay - you are right it should read "up to 10m of inlet hose" ... however I am due to install a long-reach pump system with an IBC and 5m head at a test site this week. It will be a separate pumping system [using our Pro pump], feeding a smaller tank at the polytunnel end, which will then run the watermate. I will let you know.
Thanks for the reply! So will you be using two pumps - one to feed from the IBC to the smaller tank, and another hooked up to the WaterMate Pro as-per-usual?
I wonder what is the worst that can happen if I just try setting it up with a very long inlet run. Hopefully it's a matter of either it works or it doesn't, as opposed to putting the pump under strain that causes it to burn out or fail early.
I happened to visit the eventual usage site today, and tried out the WaterMate Pro with a really rather long hose ( about 25m, I think ) and the pump managed just fine. It was making a lot of beeping for what I think was the low water alert. I've got a vague recollection that this is expected behaviour with the solar-powered version anyway?
You beat me to it! I set up a similar system today; 6m inlet pipe with 2m head. 30m outlet pipe with a further 3m head. Pro pump with a solar unit to pump water from an IBC to the polytunnel feed tank. At the moment this is on a timer, but we will automate it with a tank level sensor soon.
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I bought a WaterMate Pro that I'm yet to assemble. I intend to use it to water a no-dig vegetable patch at a remote site that I visit only once or twice a week.
There's a small stable between 15-30m away from the vegetable patch which I can add guttering to, and I was intending to connect this to an IBC tank for water storage, and have the WaterMate Pro's pump fed from there. The vegetable patch is 1m higher than said stable ( so 1m head ).
The leaflet in the WaterMate Pro box says that it can only pump from up to 10m away. However when I was looking on the Harvst website, a couple of quotes made me *think* that the pump would be suitable for my use-case:
> The WaterMate Pro pump can provide water for many tens of metres of pipe, and up to 5m of vertical head.
> We provide 4m of inlet hose ( between the water tank and the pump ) but the system will run with at least 10m of inlet hose and a 4m vertical head.
I'm guessing the first is a mis-read on my part, and is referring to the outlet side of the pump. Is the second one a typo, and should it read "with at most 10m of inlet hose"?
I wonder what is the worst that can happen if I just try setting it up with a very long inlet run. Hopefully it's a matter of either it works or it doesn't, as opposed to putting the pump under strain that causes it to burn out or fail early.