I know its a 30" overhead (pump 30" high) but here is my question. can it pump 30" overhead if its already pulling water from below itself say 12"?
1256411
The 30" is based off of the total distance over and under combined as far as i understand it. The pump will pump more then this in my experience. However it will impact the flow rate and will likely burn out faster.
1579205
Yes you can put a little longer hose on it. I wouldn't go past the 30 ft mark on less you get a bigger pump.
208818
Short answer is no it will not draw from 82 feet... BUT You say you well is 82 feet deep but is the static water level actually higher ? This pump will only draw from about 20-25 deep if your water level is standing in the well at that close then it will work.... Drop a weighted string down the pipe and check you water level within the pipe for a simple quick test....
91936
I'm pretty sure you can only pull water about 30 ft or so. You can push it forever but sucking it won't work.
1571777
That depends on how high you plan on discharging as it won't pump from the floor lets say out a basement window to much lift for this pump
2108946
I used it for my 30 foot round above ground pool..actually it is nice because you can lift one end up and rotate to do it by yourself...Pretty hard to get it back up by yourself. I may install a post this year and just swing it over to the post and leave one end on the pool.
2068788
The claimed lift is three meters (ten feet). Someone else asked the same question, and I verified the lift with a first principles physics calculation (that I now can't find). Of course, that's the point at which you'll have zero flow; so, if you're pumping water uphill, it will be less.
2210451
My guess is that it wouldn't be a good use for this pump. Pumping with no back pressure can be a pretty good work out. With 20-30 feet of water you'd be lucky to make it for more than a minute
1952655
no not really. You cannot water anything higher than the pump level and the max height above the water barrel is 3 meters. The pump is extremely small, more of a toy pump if you ask me :).
923994
My experience would say no. You will not reach 12' if you are going straight up. This may spray 12' or more along a more horizontal plane using elevation to obtain maximum distance. However if you point upwards around 80% my estimate would be more like 8' with a bleach type liquid. You might get 10' if you really pump it up and there is no wind present to deflect the stream.
2148524
That is a good question. It doesn't appear to have high discharge pressure, so I don't think it would do too well. I have pumped from the ground level up higher with no real problem. Probably any sort of restriction would keep the flow way down. Keep in mind that the pump is driven by a battery.
1590250
I've only used this pump once so far, but the reviews say not quite 30". Maybe consider the 15500.
1470728
I have it set up to pump about 5 feet to the sewage main but it is very powerful and I think it can definitely pump much higher than that...maybe 10.
239468
Brand new the pump was able to draw well above 6"... But after it was run for a while (often times dry) it would not reliably draw above 15"... I relocated my pump below water level and it still works fine. It's a little slower than I would like so I may be replacing it with a larger pump.
1543104
I am doing a similar project as you... I'm trying to deliver water to my bench grinder. So the "head" is how high the distance is from the pump to where you want the water to exit the tubing. A pump will pump vastly different amounts of fluid depending on how great that "upward" distance is. The Rio pump I first got was rated very optimistically at 120 gph (gallons per hour) but only if the outlet was at the same level at the inlet with no tubing attached. I attached tubing and starting lifting the hose higher and higher above the pump. The stream got less and less the further I lifted the hose and stopped flowing completely at 32". It took more power than the pump had to get further than this. I am doing a similar project as you... I'm trying to deliver water to my bench grinder. So the "head" is how high the distance is from the pump to where you want the water to exit the tubing. A pump will pump vastly different amounts of fluid depending on how great that "upward" distance is. The Rio pump I first got was rated very optimistically at 120 gph (gallons per hour) but only if the outlet was at the same level at the inlet with no tubing attached. I attached tubing and starting lifting the hose higher and higher above the pump. The stream got less and less the... » Read More I am doing a similar project as you... I'm trying to deliver water to my bench grinder. So the "head" is how high the distance is from the pump to where you want the water to exit the tubing. A pump will pump vastly different amounts of fluid depending on how great that "upward" distance is. The Rio pump I first got was rated very optimistically at 120 gph (gallons per hour) but only if the outlet was at the same level at the inlet with no tubing attached. I attached tubing and starting lifting the hose higher and higher above the pump. The stream got less and less the further I lifted the hose and stopped flowing completely at 32". It took more power than the pump had to get further than this. « Show Less
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We use it to pump lake water into our live well of pontoon. Works absolutely beautiful . Guess I don't know the pumping height. Sorry
1687815
In my review I added this info about the pump:On the box it shows these numbers for performance (actually on a bar graph)at 0 vertical lift you get 2400gphat 5 foot lift 2000gphat 10 foot lift 1400gphat 15 foot lift 900gphIt doesn't show higher than 15 foot, so I doubt it's recommended for higher.