Oddball backyard water pumping project [RE-wrenches]

[Darryl Thayer]

HI I hope everyone realizes I am just an over tired
old man, and mean no harm.
Thanks
Darryl
--- Darryl Thayer <daryl_solar at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> HI guys this is fun, a simple calculation should
> surfice, If the solar day is over at 6:00 and we
> want
> to pump till 10;00 then 4 hrs, x60 min x100 gallons
> =
> 24,000 gallons, but there are 7.6 gallons per cuft.
> that only requires 3158 cuft.  perhaps a tank
> 10x10x31
> feet high, on a stand 8 feet high, perhaps this
> would
> be an eys sore, and perhaos a 56 x 56 x 1 foot deep
> on
> 8 foot legs would be easier to hide.  Then of course
> we wanted to store for 3 days, I would offer that
> even
> one twelve hour day or 10x10x100 feet, and get three
> of them.  I find it amazing that a battery does not
> look so bad. 
> Darryl  
> 
> --- Kurt Albershardt <info at es-ee.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --On Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:43 PM -0600
> > Travis Creswell
> <tcreswell at ozarkenergyservices.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > With a little imagination one could come up with
> a
> > > solar direct battery less system that used some
> > relays a timer and a
> > > photocell.  So at sunrise the pump turns on, at
> > sun set a double throw relay
> > > arrangement switches from solar to grid then at
> > 10PM the system shuts of and
> > > repeats the cycle at the next sunrise.
> > 
> > If post-sunset operation is an absolute
> requirement,
> > why not pump the water into an uphill reservoir
> and
> > flow restrict the outflow to the wheel?  You'd
> need
> > either a full reservoir shutoff or some kind of
> > intelligent outlet gate control, but it would be
> > much more efficient than using batteries.
> > 
> > 
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