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Install Pump and Hose Bib

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Solar Water Pump that's Easy, Affordable and Reliable! 10 min Setup!

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What happens here

The pump is connected to the 1-inch poly pipe using a barbed fitting and a hose clamp, which is initially finger-tightened and then secured with pliers. To protect the pump from drawing in mud, it is placed inside a bucket with gravel at the bottom and zip-tied to prevent movement. This bucket-encased pump is then carefully lowered into the pond. A T-post is driven into the ground beside the pond, and the poly pipe is secured vertically along it using heavy-duty zip ties and a specialized zip-tie tightening tool for a tight, durable hold. Finally, a standard hose bib (spigot) is attached to the end of the poly pipe, allowing easy access to the pumped water.

Goal: The submersible pump is prepared by attaching the poly pipe and secured in a protective bucket with gravel. A T-post is driven into the ground, and the pipe is secured to it with zip ties. A hose bib is then attached to the end of the pipe for water access.

Tools and materials

  • 1-inch SDR9 Poly Pipe
  • 5-gallon Bucket
  • Barbed Fitting
  • Gravel
  • Hose Bib (Spigot)
  • Hose Clamps
  • Lorentz Solar Pump
  • Pliers
  • T-Post
  • Zip Ties

What they say

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pipe hooked up real quick. I'm going to say that cables 100 feet. I don't Maybe it says it on here. That thing is long. Here we've got a barbed fitting on the end of our well pump that fits our one inch. So, we're going to slide our hose clamp over and and it even has it set up where you can just tighten it with your fingers. That's cool, too. Let's snug that dude down so it doesn't slip up the pipe about 5 miles and I have to go find it. This is 1 in. So, it's a 1 in outlet. And what we're going to do, we're just testing this today. Okay. Slide this dude in. Just like so. Snug it down. It's probably best that it has a wing nut cuz I'm a nut. And there we go. All right. I think I'm going to use some pliers on that real quick. Easy, easy tighten. I like to break these things. That's my problem. There we go. Good. Cool. Let's throw it in the water. [Applause] Get in there, boy. going down in there deep in that deep water. There we go. Sweet. Just that easy. If you're worried or concerned about sucking mud up, we're probably going to suck up a little bit of muddy water here for this test. Take a bucket, put a little bit of gravel in the bottom of the bucket, zip tie that off, and toss it over into your pond or your creek. Drill some holes in the bottom of the bucket, of course, and that'll keep you from sucking up a bunch of trash. Okay? It's not a trash pump. It is a well pump. So, let's get everything wired up real quick. Here's my control box. Super simple. Here's where I can mount my control box. And we'll mount that once we test everything out and make sure we're all good. These are for sensors right here. And we do have it in the off position. I do believe uh that's for the pump and that is for the solar panels. Let's connect up our pump. There's an arrow right there on the end and an arrow right here. Didn't get any simpler than that. Plug. Plug. Good to go. These are our wires for our solar panel. We're going to hook a negative to a negative. Just like so. And a positive to a positive from the other solar panel. Just like so. Okay. And then we're going to connect up on this solar panel. And that's it. Now we're going to connect up to our control box. Don't go super gorilla tight. This is going to be protected up under here. You can mount this to a wall. I can mount it in the barn. However I want to mount it. I can mount this. Crank this dude on. Bam. On position. I wanted to flush that pipe out first. I got this. I'm going to install and I'll show you…

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