Solar well control [RE-wrenches]

[Roy Butler, Four Winds RE]

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We have 42 watering systems on farms in NY and PA at this time and most 
are using the Jobe valves
on the individual livestock watering troughs. We have a lot of hills out 
here and most of our systems pump to a storage tank on a hilltop which 
gravity feeds to the stock tanks. The Jobes are a full flow thru valve 
which works great for gravity feed systems.

We do have 2 systems which needed a booster system to help with some 
remote troughs which filled too slowly.
These use the Flowlight booster pump with a 2 gallon air tank and 
pressure switch assembly.
One is powered PV direct, the other off of the main pump system's PV 
charged battery bank.

The stock tanks attached to both of these booster systems have the Jobe 
Valves in them.
They work very well with our booster setups and we have never seen rapid 
pump cycling or any other
problems. One has been in use for 3 years, the other for 4. Each pumps 
app. 1200 GPD.

As for crazy, I'm with you guys...I'm just glad I'm not the only crazy 
one here....crazy likes company!
Speaking of which...Windy got me started on this water pump stuff about 
7 years ago.....thanks Windy,
I don't hold it against ya! I'll lift a Saranac for you and everyone on 
the list...Happy Holidays to all!

"I don't suffer from insanity....I've enjoyed every minute of it!"




Roy Butler
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer®
NYSERDA eligible PV & wind installer 
Four Winds Renewable Energy, LLC
8902 Route 46
Arkport, NY 14807
607-324-9747
www.four-winds-energy.com

Although no trees were killed in the sending of this message, 
a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.




William Miller wrote:
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> Friends:
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> Have any of you heard about the JOBE brand of valves:  They are 
> manufactured in Australia and my understanding is they are about half 
> the cost of the Cla-Val.
>
> http://www.jobevalves.com/  Look for reservoir valves under products.
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> William Miller
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> At 10:24 AM 12/21/2007, you wrote:
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>> Hey wait I'm MUCH more crazy then Matt! Matt's tip on sealing 
>> pressure switches is one of the best tips I've heard on here in a 
>> long time, those darn bugs do indeed foul up many a switches, save 
>> yourself the grief and seal 'em. Same is true of Windy's advice to 
>> series the contacts, I used to just use one keeping the other as a 
>> spare, once switching to series contacts they outlast even my back-up 
>> scheme. The Hudson valve is a great compromise between a standard 
>> float valve and a Cal-Val, they still do a wee bit of throttling near 
>> top-off but do shut off pretty quick by comparison and about 1/10 the 
>> price of a Cla-Val. Personally, I'm staying w/Cla-Val and added cost 
>> in return for the optimum performance, maybe I'm being anal here but 
>> I prefer to stick with crazy!
>> -jeff o
>>
>>
>> From the Solar, Wind and Hydro powered office of Jeff 
>> Oldham/Regenerative SOLutions
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