Solar well control [RE-wrenches]

[Matt Tritt]

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Right on Roy, go with the flow! ;-)

Matt  (By the way, the Jobe valves are really nifty, all right. They 
don't seem to have a lot of travel room though, except for the one thats 
shaped like a tube that fits inside the tank. Very nice!

Roy Butler, Four Winds RE wrote:

>
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> Friends:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> William Miller
>>
>> At 10:24 AM 12/21/2007, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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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