Date:         Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:47:29 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: fresh water pump subsitute
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <4e449695.89af340a.7685.3575@mx.google.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Thanks David.

I spent some time today working on the pump/faucet. You know the pump was sticky (April trip), but working it on and off got it to run most times. But it doesn't have the oomph to make the eurovan faucet really shine. I think I will try the bilge pump, i think I have enough tubing choices to make the connection.

alistair

PS I bought a new aux battery, a small AGM 31 A/hr thing from that mart place. Its an interstate made unit, drives the pump better than the tired old gel cells I had coupled together ( 2 X 12 A/hr). I had a gel cell 30 A/hr as aux for years until it gave up the ghost, for my needs that size of battery is perfect.


On 2011-08-11, at 7:57 PM, David Beierl wrote:

> 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