pond aerator [RE-wrenches]

[Darryl Thayer]

Thanks windy and others, but give me some examples of
what air pumps and the thing at the bottom that you
know about

Daryl

--- "Windy Dankoff, Dankoff Solar"
<windy at dankoffsolar.com> wrote:
> Dear Roy and all,
> 
> --  "Come on Windy, you can do it!"  -- says Roy.
> 
> That's how my customers urged me on in early 80's
> when they wanted 
> solar water pumps ... And look at all the trouble
> it's gotten me 
> into!  :- 0=
> 
> OK, joking aside (?), I've rigged air pumps to
> motors, LCBs, PVs, 
> etc, and made bubbles in the sun. For daytime
> de-icing (opening a 
> hole) in stock tanks and ponds, we have been
> successful, even as high 
> as 10,000 feet in the Rockies (a trout pond, the
> fish survived 
> numerous winters like never before). However, I
> don't know how to 
> quantify the result.
> 
> When the purpose is oxygenation to effect the
> biology of the pond, 
> it's a more daunting problem. I can't specify a
> system to meet the 
> customer's need when the customer doesn't have a
> clue how to quantify 
> his pond conditions, and I don't have the background
> to interpret 
> environmental data if I have it.
> 
> We don't get much call for pond management here
> locally, so I don't 
> have the hands-on or even good observation. We need
> to hear more 
> about YOUR experience, Roy. Tell us more about what
> works for you and 
> what the remaining problems are.
> 
> Windy
> 
> 
> 
> Roy Butler, Four Winds RE wrote:
> >Hi Darryl,
> >
> >We get a lot of pond aeration requests here in
> rural NY state. Some 
> >for reducing algae growth and some for aquaculture
> use. We've 
> >developed and tested several systems for using
> solar to pump air and 
> >water for aeration and have found that, with either
> method, the hard 
> >part is distribution. How does one get the aeration
> distributed 
> >evenly throughout the pond and do it in such a way
> that algae and/ 
> >or debris don't plug up the aeration line, ring,
> etc. that you're 
> >using. And keep it affordable?
> >
> >Windy....PLEASE weigh in here with your insight!
> Yes, I know of the 
> >VERY expensive ($500+) Viton rings and others like
> it, but how about 
> >one of those wonderfully simple and innovative
> solutions that the RE 
> >industry is so good at producing?? Come on Windy,
> you can do it!
> 
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