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Any irrigation “experts” in the house?
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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1752898" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>Im not an irrigation person but I have designed and moved a lot of fluids with pumps. Call the mfg or maybe some one who sells pumps and get the specs. They will tell you exactly how that pump should be set up, they can usually calculate all your friction, flow, etc.</p><p></p><p>I can not see what kind of pump it is in the picture. If you can get a better picture, mfg & serial we can probably look it up online.</p><p></p><p>My guess is they put it as close to water level as possible for priming and have it floating to maintain that distance as the water level goes up and down. In theory, if you have the pump on solid ground and the level went down far enough in the pond you could lose prime. </p><p></p><p>There are pumps that won't do that but they likely built it like that for a reason and not just to make you miserable. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😄" title="Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f604.png" data-shortname=":smile:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1752898, member: 6291"] Im not an irrigation person but I have designed and moved a lot of fluids with pumps. Call the mfg or maybe some one who sells pumps and get the specs. They will tell you exactly how that pump should be set up, they can usually calculate all your friction, flow, etc. I can not see what kind of pump it is in the picture. If you can get a better picture, mfg & serial we can probably look it up online. My guess is they put it as close to water level as possible for priming and have it floating to maintain that distance as the water level goes up and down. In theory, if you have the pump on solid ground and the level went down far enough in the pond you could lose prime. There are pumps that won't do that but they likely built it like that for a reason and not just to make you miserable. 😄 [/QUOTE]
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