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 Water Pumps & Accessories
We carry solar powered (DC) water pumps (and some AC pumps) from several manufacturers, including Dankoff, Kyocera, Grundfos and Shurflo. We also carry a complete line of accessories, hardware, and installation parts and kits.
Water pumps fall into two major categories, with some overlap - surface delivery and pressure (booster) pumps, and submersible well pumps. Delivery pumps are used to move water from one place to another. Some are capable of high pressure while others are intended mainly for moving large volumes at low pressure (such as moving water from a cistern to a stock watering tank). Flows can be small (1/2 gallon per minute or so) up to 30-40 gpm. These are also often used for pressurizing water systems in homes, RV's, and boats.
Submersible pumps are generally used for pumping from wells, and are designed to fit inside the well casing in a drilled hole. The most common casing size is 4", but 5" and 6" are also common. Some older wells drilled for windmills are less than 4", and most submersible pumps will not fit - for that the best thing is to replace the windmill with an ERA jack pump. The well may be anywhere from a few feet to 1800 feet deep - but the deeper the well, the more expensive the system. Depths over 225 feet will generally cost quite a bit more. Solar powered well pumps are seldom suited for large amounts of water, such as irrigating larger fields if you have AC power available. The largest pumps generally available are 1/4 to 2 HP.
Dankoff distributes submersible pumps like the helical rotor based ETA Pump and TSP Pump. Dankoff also manufactures a full range of high quality surface pumps like the Flowlight Booster Pump for pressurizing, Slowpump for pumping low volumes long distances, the Solar Force Piston Pump and more.
Kyocera makes a line of submersible pumps including the SCS centrifugal pump line and the lower cost (but limited to 230 ft of lift) SDS diaphram pumps.
Shurflo also makes a lower cost submersible diaphram pump called the Shurflo 9300. They also make a range of pressurizing pumps.
Grundfos makes a line of submersible pumps similar to the helical rotor ETA Pump. The main difference is the Grundfos line can be powered by solar, wind or and generator. The ETA Pump is exclusively powered by solar.
We encourage you to call our experienced technical staff to talk about which pump best suits your needs.
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