Date:         Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:57:19 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: fresh water pump subsitute
Comments: To: Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
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At 09:58 PM 8/10/2011, Robert Stevens wrote:
>On Aug 10, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>
> > Anyone *successfully* used a small electric bilge pump as a
> substitute submersible water pump? Wondering if the flow is too
> much. I don't have stock faucet, I have the eurovan one which seems
> to need more flow.

350 gph Rule works a treat.  Even though the rated output is huge,
the skinny line chokes it down to what the regular pump delivers, and
current draw is about the same.  Just have to match the line sizes at the pump.

Can't tell you how the Eurovan spigot will affect things
specifically, but like any centrifugal pump it's highly sensitive to
choking the output which decouples the rotor from the flow and
unloads the pump --> higher rpm, lower current, lower output.

Yours,
David