Best boat shower pumps & sumps according to redditors
We found 6 Reddit comments discussing the best boat shower pumps & sumps. We ranked the 1 resulting product by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 6 Reddit comments discussing the best boat shower pumps & sumps. We ranked the 1 resulting product by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
This fence line is just shy of 90 feet and my setup works pretty well at that length. I used pretty small diameter pvc so it’s not much weight; I can’t imagine reinforcement would be needed for the watering— maybe for the vines depending. It’s not a raging torrent of water it basically is just a steady drip but it saturates pretty well when run in cycles and not run during the heat of the day.
My initial version of this setup was a single battery and small solar panel and it ran fine for a year or more (granted I’m in SoCal so we get a lot of sun)— I’ve since expanded a bit to a 4 battery setup and larger panel but just because I added two more pumps for covering other areas.
Here’s a picture of the control box of a basic single battery system with timer and a simple solar controller
https://i.imgur.com/JOfGqdp.jpg
Here’s some of the basic gear:
Water Storage
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Current Water tank
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003H9WJMI/
(Although I’ve also used smaller/cheaper tanks like this for my vegetable garden, just might mean more refills depending on how often it’s run: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BFC5NIA/ )
If you’re looking to go super cheap, I honestly started my first setup with a couple modified 5 gallon plastic water bottles I stole from my office like these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003B27RAA/
Power
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Current solar panel for a 4 battery setup:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HFMBF3G
Previous panel for single battery system:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PFGP0EA
Solar regulator (keeps you from blowing up the battery! The smaller panel comes free with one that works fine, I just liked this one better because it had more lights!): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L37KZI6/
Batteries, one is plenty for a single pump system:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003S1RQ2S/
(obviously if you wanted to build a system on the cheap you could bypass the solar entirely and drop $20 on a second battery that you leave charging and just swap them back and forth every week or three, depending on how often/long you run the system)
Pump
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Current Pump:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BXBQGC/
Although I’ve also used cheaper ones like these for drip systems and they were fine:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07699RMVB
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WYMC492
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DLKT4OO
Misc
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Timer (has like 16 stop/start memories which should be plenty for any configuration):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090MTLFO
If there is some interest next weekend I could draw up a complete wiring/assembly diagram and detailed parts list and make a separate post (and include all the sundries: wire, hose, clamps, filters, waterproof project box, couplings, drip heads, etc).
Hell yeah, that was my thinking, too. "Everything and the kitchen sink."
I used a little 12v pressure pump from Amazon, found here. It's 35PSI and 1.1GPM of flow. Perfectly fine for rinsing off dishes or washing hands or filling up the dog bowl. I have it running into a 3.5 gal Reliant freshwater jug which is enough water for dishes and hand washing for a couple days.
It draws about a peak of 3.5A @ 12v but since it is a pressure pump it only draws power when the faucet is open. Otherwise it is off. I still installed a master cutoff switch just so that I can turn the entire box off at night and not worry about a fitting coming loose and the thing running dry all night and killing my battery.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WYMC492
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Got it as deal for like $12
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got this running for 2 years now. Works perfect.
I had the same problem with the viscosity. I am using this [pump] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WYMC492?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) along with "push connect" fittings and have been fairly happy.