This is great! Thank you for the video. With this setup, I was able to use a tiny pump to get water from my pond to my garden that is ~200 feet away! Used it to fill 2 55 gallon barrels and a few 5 gallon buckets in less than a day. In fully sun, that tiny pump filled a 55 gallon barrel in less than 2 hours, all with the power of the sun! No more lugging buckets from the pond to the garden, very excited that this works so well.
Should I cover my large plastic pond to avoid mosquito eggs ec that I will be using to water Garden Will pump you recommended be good for large plastic pond ? Thanks
Really great video!!! My wife and I are going to do the exact same thing. Can't thank you enough for making this video. All powered by the sun! Have a wonderful day
I dug a 4x4x10 well next to my garden and chicken coup. I use a 60w dc shallow well pump($65) to get close to actual house water pressure. All very useful, everyday. I do have a charge controller, old 12v battery(this is where the old ones go!). 2/100 watt panels. A slow constant'ish feed to your storage tanks is a great idea. We have parallel setups, thankyou for sharing.
@@Gorguruga search 12vdc submersible shallow well pump. Mines orange! And no...I dont think it likes backpressure, but it does close to, if not 5gpm. So it will dump water on you. The other nice thing is its self priming. So in the cold of winter, when I shutoff the water switch, the water from the line drains back into the well. No frozen lines. Another thing to keep in mind. syphon. lol :)
Omg my head is about to explode with this one 😳 THAT Little pump carried the water THAT Far??? 😱 My pond is closer to my garden than this! And I can put a container on my truck and go fill it up too! 🤗 Yippeeeee!!
Fantastic. I have a hobby greenhouse I just put 3 levels of 30ft rows of plastic rain gutters planted with strawberries. I have a 300 gal water tub and some drip irrigation tape and been racking my brain how to automate the system. I'm excited ☺️
Awesome! I recently started collecting water and am working on a solar pump strong enough to operate a standard yard sprinkler. I love technology almost as much as I love doing things for free!
or when your barrels fill up, let it run on, and overflow. Have a pipe from the top of the barrels to the rows of plants and let the overflow irrigate the garden.
I've been thinking of doing this for the hydroponic tower garden I'm thinking of putting in. So this video is a nice kick-start 😅 One question. How is the pump holding up after 3 years?
As a proud west central 'arkie' - I see you are also an arkie as well. Thanks for the demonstration. I'm designing a couple of solar solutions - one to move captured rain water from a large tank to a smaller garden tank and one to run an small irrigation system for a 'field garden' that is growing radishes and things. Thanks so much!
Thanks that's perfect for what I need almost the same but my elevation is probably double yours. But I guess I can just ad another solar panel and pump in the middle and have 2 water stations.
Just a couple of comments. As an electrician make sure you use wire that is rated for direct burial. The insulation will last longer and not get brittle. Better yet run it in some polytube or UV rated PVC. Yes you don't need a charge controller and battery but a future upgrade of these would be nice. I like to fill my barrels in the evening that way they have all day to warm the water, but I suppose the pond water is warm. Of course no sun minimal power and might ruin your pump.... Either great idea so you don't need the generator...
An amazing video. Incredible that one solar panel can power the pump like that. Completely off grid electrical pump system. I wonder if that pump could be used for a shower or would the water flow be too weak? Thanks for the video.
Pretty impressive. Where was the little pump? At the pond, at the panel, or at the barrel? Hard to believe that little pump can push water or pull water that far. Wow!
Hope to see more videos from you, a little upgrade you could make to get a lot more water out of that pump/make it run longer would be a larger solar panel, that 30W is the absolute peak power, most of the day or through any cloud you'll get less than that, for a similar price you should be able to find a 2nd hand solar farm panel that's over 200W! it may be a 30v panel so you'll need a little DC-DC Buck converter but those are less than $10 as well, wire it all up and watch it go!
Question about pump head. I do not need volume or high flow, however, I am transferring water from a 55 gal drum uphill to another drum. The distance is roughly 300 ft. but a gain in elevation of 50-60'. Do you think this little pump can do this or not the right application? I could use 1/4" or even 1/8" diameter outflow line. I simply need to fill the target drum once a week with 40-50 gallons of relatively clean water for backpack spraying in our target area. Thanks for any help. Great stuff by the way!
Love the inner tube floating the barrel in the creek. What size inner tube? Do you have a link? Did you put any type of filter in the barrel? Holes in the bottom or the side? Thank you!
If you pump air into a column of water of 3 m depth then you can always had clean water will refill the water to use because under 3 m depth enough pressure turn air into water
I’d really like to know more about how you do the watering itself. Can you attach a hose to the pump? I see that you are dripping freely into the garden, how does the water reach the plants that need it?
So one of the things I did was use a hoe to dig a shallow trench down beside the row of okra for instance .. and just let the water flow out of the pipe on the uphill end of the trench so it will flow down to the other end. It just depends on the situation.
Could this work with Hudson float valve so there's no overflow and then a low or no pressure timer at bottom or barrel for drip irrigation to basically make an automated drip irrigation system
I would for a low pressure 'drip' type shower. Especially if you elevate the tank. If you are thinking about disposing of the tank entirely then yes - these pumps are used to do small fountains (that's an upside down shower, lol). It is dependent on the elevation from the water source to the discharge - 21 feet for this pump.
Nice work. I want to try this. Can this pump really pull water straight up 20'? How clear does the water need to be? Can it run off of 12v 100w solar panel?
So the head pressure is important to think about .. it might pump 20' ft up .. but not be very much water coming out .. but it does give a range of options in that spectrum .. 1 - 15 or 18 ft. for example. It's going to flow more at 1 ft than at 18 ft. You just want to have clean water .. no leaves, grass, etc. to clog the line. Yes, it can run off a 100w solar panel. .. it's 12 volt.
I have moved it around to various locations .. the pump is not working now but probably just needs cleaning .. I've got to pull it out and give it some attention.
the panel is 36 v and the pump is 8-24v . doesn't this extra voltage burn the pump ? Did you measure the actual voltage coming from the panel to see if it's ever coming as high as 36 volts ?
Yes .. just connected wires .. to turn the pump on I use an alligator clip and clip onto a bare wire. You could also use something to cover the solar panel.
I saw in a previous post you said you changed the design of the float. Can you please explain a little more? Is it like 4-in PVC Square that's a little bit bigger than the barrel or did you have to make it a lot bigger so would be more buoyant?
I did a similar setup with a 40 watt pump and a 100 watt solar panel and the rated head was 4 meter. But this wasn't pumping over a few cm of head and was waste of money
Hi John .. this link is for one with less watts .. less head pressure .. but it's from the same people. I'm noticing that they have one .. little more pricy .. but this one I posted has been discontinued. Keep looking tho .. you never know what someone else has developed. usa.banggood.com/DC-12V-Solar-Powered-Water-Pump-Motor-700L-or-H-Brushless-Magnetic-Submersible-Water-Pumps-p-1275049.html?rmmds=detail-left-hotproducts&cur_warehouse=CN
Hi .. you can add a switch if you want to .. but I attached alligator clips to the ends of the wire and they will hold onto almost anything. By connecting or hooking the clips .. it acts as a switch.
Thank you! Do you think this would work to pump water out of a well? We have a second well on our property that we'd like to make use of just for gardens and animals.
Thanks for posting! How do you switch it on and off though? Also, that solar panel reads that its open circuit voltage is 42.2 volts. Would that burn out a pump that's rated with a maximum of 24 volts?
The pump only uses what it needs .. I hooked up two solar panels to one pump to see if it would pump faster .. it didn't and did not hurt the pump. I switch it on by connecting wires together with an alligator clip on the end.
I like the idea quite a lot. But one thing I think would be practical might be some kind of a "current cut-out" such that when the output from the panel dropped below a certain level, it would shut the pump down until such time as the current was once again adequate to run the application. If just manually turning it on and off during full sun hours, it's not a big deal. I'm not so sure about the hours towards the beginning and end of the day when the panel may be putting out too little power to actually run the pump properly. How could that happen simply without spending a lot? (I can see applications well beyond a small water pump that this would apply to.) Thanks!
When there is less sun .. like when there is a shadow from a tree branch .. it just drops in power to run the pump .. but it doesn't hurt the pump at all.
Actually I would not recommend an inner tube now .. bought a new one and it didn't last. Instead I built a float using 4" PVC pipe joined with 90 deg. elbows. All glued together .. then wrapped aluminum wire around the pipe and through the barrel at the midway point. The barrel is now floating in my pond.
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This is great! Thank you for the video. With this setup, I was able to use a tiny pump to get water from my pond to my garden that is ~200 feet away! Used it to fill 2 55 gallon barrels and a few 5 gallon buckets in less than a day. In fully sun, that tiny pump filled a 55 gallon barrel in less than 2 hours, all with the power of the sun! No more lugging buckets from the pond to the garden, very excited that this works so well.
That's great to hear!! 🙂
I'm amazed that tiny pump can pump that much water that far!
Yes, I agree!
One of the best do it yourself videos i have seen in a long time. This is exactly what I have been looking for, and also the materials.
Great to hear!!!
Should I cover my large plastic pond to avoid mosquito eggs ec that I will be using to water Garden
Will pump you recommended be good for large plastic pond ? Thanks
Really great video!!! My wife and I are going to do the exact same thing. Can't thank you enough for making this video. All powered by the sun! Have a wonderful day
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Brilliant. Effective. Yet simple. And you explained everything very clearly. Thanks again.
I dug a 4x4x10 well next to my garden and chicken coup. I use a 60w dc shallow well pump($65) to get close to actual house water pressure. All very useful, everyday. I do have a charge controller, old 12v battery(this is where the old ones go!). 2/100 watt panels. A slow constant'ish feed to your storage tanks is a great idea. We have parallel setups, thankyou for sharing.
Would that pump be good enough for an off grid power shower?
@@Gorguruga search 12vdc submersible shallow well pump. Mines orange! And no...I dont think it likes backpressure, but it does close to, if not 5gpm. So it will dump water on you. The other nice thing is its self priming. So in the cold of winter, when I shutoff the water switch, the water from the line drains back into the well. No frozen lines. Another thing to keep in mind. syphon. lol :)
Omg my head is about to explode with this one 😳 THAT Little pump carried the water THAT Far??? 😱
My pond is closer to my garden than this! And I can put a container on my truck and go fill it up too! 🤗 Yippeeeee!!
I'm glad you see the benefit of doing this. It truly is amazing to have a solar panel do the work .. and all free and without noise .. or extra costs.
Thank you for uploading and sharing your smart, simple, straightforward, cost effective and efficient solution.
Fantastic. I have a hobby greenhouse I just put 3 levels of 30ft rows of plastic rain gutters planted with strawberries. I have a 300 gal water tub and some drip irrigation tape and been racking my brain how to automate the system. I'm excited ☺️
Hope it worked out for you! 🙂
I just use a small solar powered pump for fountain feature. Works great for years. Irrigate all my plants right from the lake water
Here I became a fan of "money can't buy your wisdom, loved it, I will do it in my garden, all these years I used hand pump
That's amazing! Glad to be of help!
Awesome idea, execution, and setup. Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement on this wonderful project.
Built a similar setup. If you put a float switch on your rain barrel, in series with the pump, they would be full at all times.
Awesome! I recently started collecting water and am working on a solar pump strong enough to operate a standard yard sprinkler. I love technology almost as much as I love doing things for free!
the genius is in the simplicity
Yes, I agree .. and that makes it more useable.
simple, efficient, cost effective - brilliant - thanks for sharing that!
What an innovative and smart set-up! Thank you so much for taking the time to share it!
You could add a Hudson float valve to your recieving drum and the pump would turn on and off automatically
Great idea!
or when your barrels fill up, let it run on, and overflow. Have a pipe from the top of the barrels to the rows of plants and let the overflow irrigate the garden.
I've been thinking of doing this for the hydroponic tower garden I'm thinking of putting in. So this video is a nice kick-start 😅
One question. How is the pump holding up after 3 years?
Making use of what God has given us... Excellent!!
I like the berrel idea! Ive messed with floats and all sorts of stuff to keep my intake from cloging. I might use this and inovate on it a bit.
As a proud west central 'arkie' - I see you are also an arkie as well. Thanks for the demonstration. I'm designing a couple of solar solutions - one to move captured rain water from a large tank to a smaller garden tank and one to run an small irrigation system for a 'field garden' that is growing radishes and things. Thanks so much!
Hope it works out for you! Sure been dry this year!
Nice setup. This is just the sort of thing I was looking for to power my solar pool heater. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks that's perfect for what I need almost the same but my elevation is probably double yours. But I guess I can just ad another solar panel and pump in the middle and have 2 water stations.
Yes .. That works too.
Just a couple of comments. As an electrician make sure you use wire that is rated for direct burial. The insulation will last longer and not get brittle. Better yet run it in some polytube or UV rated PVC. Yes you don't need a charge controller and battery but a future upgrade of these would be nice. I like to fill my barrels in the evening that way they have all day to warm the water, but I suppose the pond water is warm. Of course no sun minimal power and might ruin your pump.... Either great idea so you don't need the generator...
That's a nice spot for a garden.
Yes indeed .. very happy to be able to grow here!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea!
Glad you liked it! :)
Thanks for taking the time to share what you have learned. Very helpful
That is very ingenious.
Doing the same thing but with a powerfull pump. Will be adding a water wheel connected to an windmill generator to generate power
Can you PLEASE tell me if this worked out for you? It’s EXACTLY what I’m wanting to do and am a full on rookie with all this
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Wonderful, helpful video. Thank you for taking time to make and share.
Twelve .. Cheers!
You could add a bulk head fitting at the top of your receiver barrel for a hose to water the grass
Awesome! Just what I need! Im commenting 2 years later. How is that pump holding up?
Make more content. This helped me and my wife so much. Ty.
@@MerwinARTist wow! I am sorry to hear that! So glad things are ok though! 🙏🏽. Life has been a trip, we all need a little break.
An amazing video. Incredible that one solar panel can power the pump like that. Completely off grid electrical pump system. I wonder if that pump could be used for a shower or would the water flow be too weak? Thanks for the video.
Well done, Sir!
Great video sir.
That is exactly what I needed to see
A great video. I think solar power is going to be our only way forward.
I agree Dianne .. and thank you for the comment! :)
Beautiful idea 💡. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless 🙏💕
Thank you for a great video especially showing the purchases you made im get on www right now thanks again .
Come back, Garden Dirt. We need your wisdom
LOL .. I'm posting a new video now .. a little different but same landscaping garden dirt stuff. 🙂
Oh this great. Whats the generator doing in all of that? Thank you
Drunk on Life, Refreshing RUclips right here. Thank you
Cheers! 🙂
Good information thank you for sharing
That is what I call American ingenuity and genius.
Thank you Sidney .. I'm leaving this behind for those who are yet to be born! 🤣lol
that is not american ingenuity mate! that is CHINESE ingenuity!
Great idea thanks for sharing God bless you and yours
Pretty genius!
Perfect set up
Sir u look just like my father in law.And we are from Arkansas aswell.
Amazing! lol
Pretty impressive. Where was the little pump? At the pond, at the panel, or at the barrel? Hard to believe that little pump can push water or pull water that far. Wow!
The pump is in the blue barrel floating in the lake and a line runs from the pump to the storage barrels.
Great video I really appreciate you taking your time to share your wisdom and knowledge with all of us
Thank you .. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this! Nicely done.
Hope to see more videos from you, a little upgrade you could make to get a lot more water out of that pump/make it run longer would be a larger solar panel, that 30W is the absolute peak power, most of the day or through any cloud you'll get less than that, for a similar price you should be able to find a 2nd hand solar farm panel that's over 200W! it may be a 30v panel so you'll need a little DC-DC Buck converter but those are less than $10 as well, wire it all up and watch it go!
Question about pump head. I do not need volume or high flow, however, I am transferring water from a 55 gal drum uphill to another drum. The distance is roughly 300 ft. but a gain in elevation of 50-60'. Do you think this little pump can do this or not the right application? I could use 1/4" or even 1/8" diameter outflow line. I simply need to fill the target drum once a week with 40-50 gallons of relatively clean water for backpack spraying in our target area. Thanks for any help. Great stuff by the way!
Brilliant, and thank you.
Very clever , thank you for sharing ,
Love the inner tube floating the barrel in the creek. What size inner tube? Do you have a link? Did you put any type of filter in the barrel? Holes in the bottom or the side? Thank you!
Great Job
If you pump air into a column of water of 3 m depth then you can always had clean water will refill the water to use because under 3 m depth enough pressure turn air into water
Great Idear Sir Yhanks for that Verry helpful
So nice of you .. thanks!
I’d really like to know more about how you do the watering itself. Can you attach a hose to the pump? I see that you are dripping freely into the garden, how does the water reach the plants that need it?
as long as the roots of the plants can reach the wetness of the ground .. the plants will get the water they need.
So one of the things I did was use a hoe to dig a shallow trench down beside the row of okra for instance .. and just let the water flow out of the pipe on the uphill end of the trench so it will flow down to the other end. It just depends on the situation.
Is the system still working, did you have any challenges?
I've come to this video very late on. If you're still responding to questions may I ask how long those little pumps last?
Subscribed! I away learn something new on your channel. Thanks, J
Thank you!
How do you change the battery when they don’t work
There is no battery to change .. the power comes directly from the solar panel.
Could this work with Hudson float valve so there's no overflow and then a low or no pressure timer at bottom or barrel for drip irrigation to basically make an automated drip irrigation system
Probably so. :)
Awesome, thanks for sharing this
Thanks for sharing
Love the fact you don't have to use a battery .Would this be enough power to do a outdoor shower?
I would for a low pressure 'drip' type shower. Especially if you elevate the tank. If you are thinking about disposing of the tank entirely then yes - these pumps are used to do small fountains (that's an upside down shower, lol). It is dependent on the elevation from the water source to the discharge - 21 feet for this pump.
Yes, but of course only when the sun is shinning.
Nice work. I want to try this. Can this pump really pull water straight up 20'? How clear does the water need to be? Can it run off of 12v 100w solar panel?
So the head pressure is important to think about .. it might pump 20' ft up .. but not be very much water coming out .. but it does give a range of options in that spectrum .. 1 - 15 or 18 ft. for example. It's going to flow more at 1 ft than at 18 ft. You just want to have clean water .. no leaves, grass, etc. to clog the line. Yes, it can run off a 100w solar panel. .. it's 12 volt.
if i put this in a 5000 gallon water tank would it have enough power to push from there?
For those of us with water sources that can dry up, is there a way to add an automatic off so pump doesn't burn out?
Thanks, you the man
Cheers! 🙂
How long did ur set up work for ? And is it still going ?
I have moved it around to various locations .. the pump is not working now but probably just needs cleaning .. I've got to pull it out and give it some attention.
the panel is 36 v and the pump is 8-24v . doesn't this extra voltage burn the pump ? Did you measure the actual voltage coming from the panel to see if it's ever coming as high as 36 volts ?
How did you wire the pump to the solar panel? It looks like you just spliced the wires, right?
Yes .. just connected wires .. to turn the pump on I use an alligator clip and clip onto a bare wire. You could also use something to cover the solar panel.
Can you use this in a water storage tank in the winter to keep the water moving so it will not freeze.
Depends on where you live.
Thank you 🙏
Thanks for sharing. Big LIKE for you.
Thank you for that!! 🙂
Is that pump completely submerged under water in the barrel? Do you have a screen on the inlet?
Yes to both of your questions! 🙂
I wonder if there are any solar water pumps on the market with a shutoff float or if it's easy to configure one that way
Probably is .. or maybe make one.
I saw in a previous post you said you changed the design of the float. Can you please explain a little more? Is it like 4-in PVC Square that's a little bit bigger than the barrel or did you have to make it a lot bigger so would be more buoyant?
Thank you.
I did a similar setup with a 40 watt pump and a 100 watt solar panel and the rated head was 4 meter. But this wasn't pumping over a few cm of head and was waste of money
Sorry to hear that .. I hope you are able to make it work somehow.
Can you post the link again for purchasing the pump.
Hi John .. this link is for one with less watts .. less head pressure .. but it's from the same people. I'm noticing that they have one .. little more pricy .. but this one I posted has been discontinued. Keep looking tho .. you never know what someone else has developed.
usa.banggood.com/DC-12V-Solar-Powered-Water-Pump-Motor-700L-or-H-Brushless-Magnetic-Submersible-Water-Pumps-p-1275049.html?rmmds=detail-left-hotproducts&cur_warehouse=CN
That's great Thankyou
I did not see how you added your switch. Do you just put a switch in line obviously in between the pump and the solar panel?
Hi .. you can add a switch if you want to .. but I attached alligator clips to the ends of the wire and they will hold onto almost anything. By connecting or hooking the clips .. it acts as a switch.
Thank you! Do you think this would work to pump water out of a well? We have a second well on our property that we'd like to make use of just for gardens and animals.
Depends upon how deep your well is .. this pump was only rated to pump about 21 ft vertically.
I would get a windmill pump to keep a 250 gallon water barrel full at all times and use the force of gravity to water the garden 😊
Thanks for posting! How do you switch it on and off though? Also, that solar panel reads that its open circuit voltage is 42.2 volts. Would that burn out a pump that's rated with a maximum of 24 volts?
The pump only uses what it needs .. I hooked up two solar panels to one pump to see if it would pump faster .. it didn't and did not hurt the pump. I switch it on by connecting wires together with an alligator clip on the end.
How can I use this method to pump water from a 55 gallon rain barrel? Where should the pump be kept?
If you are pumping from the barrel .. you need to put the pump in the barrel.
I like the idea quite a lot. But one thing I think would be practical might be some kind of a "current cut-out" such that when the output from the panel dropped below a certain level, it would shut the pump down until such time as the current was once again adequate to run the application. If just manually turning it on and off during full sun hours, it's not a big deal. I'm not so sure about the hours towards the beginning and end of the day when the panel may be putting out too little power to actually run the pump properly. How could that happen simply without spending a lot? (I can see applications well beyond a small water pump that this would apply to.) Thanks!
When there is less sun .. like when there is a shadow from a tree branch .. it just drops in power to run the pump .. but it doesn't hurt the pump at all.
Dang that is a small little wire they got there.
That's awesome
Thank you! 🙂
thanks so much
Great Video! I have 265 Watt solar panels and a 450 watt DC water pump. Do I need 1 or 2 panels? I'm assuming 2?
Just one panel would work .. pretty sure.
How long are wires to panel? I need 4 ft. to reach bottom of IBC tank.
How about for a waterfall?!?
It would depend .. it can be used for a lot of things .. including a small pool fountain.
Where do you live? How do you think this would do in the winter?
Southwestern Arkansas .. the pump can't take being frozen!
How big of a tractor tire inner tube did you use to fit around the 55 gallon plastic barrel?
Actually I would not recommend an inner tube now .. bought a new one and it didn't last. Instead I built a float using 4" PVC pipe joined with 90 deg. elbows. All glued together .. then wrapped aluminum wire around the pipe and through the barrel at the midway point. The barrel is now floating in my pond.
Just curious how this setup has been holding up
What does the generator do here?
Waits for the sun to go down.
Where do I buy this pump ?
I'm not sure .. I had to do a lot of searching before I found this on Ebay.