The Plan To Get Water To Pond #1 - Off Grid

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[MatthewYBarbo]

It's exciting to see some solar panels out there! Nice looking mount, and can't wait to catch up to see how this works with the water pump!

[PonyUST]

You need a master landscaping plan for your property. Thoughtful design and flow.

[danhumphrey]

Been using RPS for years it’s a great company and they back a solid product!

[CharlesReiche]

Can't wait. To see what kind of solar storage you'll set up in the barn. You can store that excess and never need a generator for the barn activities. Bet you're watching every Will Prowse video right now.

[walterochsner]

4 inch pipe holds 29-30 pounds of water so your pump will sink to the bottom. Also your need a lot more holes in your screen pipe.

[billobermeyer]

Great ingenuity Adam, I sure hope it all works out!!

[funnywolffarm]

Thanks for the video. Note, pressurizing the air makes it heavier/less-buoyant; in fact, the ideal would be the reverse (closer to a vacuum). The valve you installed does give you an interesting way to set the float height based on adding some air to 'sink it' a bit. Cheers.

[given-ch]

Love your ingenuity Adam! Following every step. Am thinking you’ll need about 5 gallons of displaced water for the float to suspend 50# of pump, wires and fittings.

[ashtonthomas]

Compressing more air into a given space will increase the total mass, because air has mass too.

For example, a SCUBA diver’s air tank weighs more when it is filled with compressed air than it does when it’s empty.

So you’re actually making your set-up less buoyant by doing this.

If you want to make it more buoyant you need to do one or more of these two things. Decrease the weight of the set-up, or increase the volume (the displacement) of the set-up.

[jaredhildebrandt]

I first watched this video the day it came out.
Buoyancy has nothing to do with pressure in the float but the size of the float.

[DKBlair]

I realize it’s done now, but my thought for the pump & solar array would have been to build a small dock with a shade, mount the solar array on top of the shade, hang the pump off the dock.

Would have been a lot less wire, reduced evaporation a little, and given you some shade.

[DDL]

I so appreciate a company like RPS!! They're in business & actually know a lot about what they're doing! So many companies are little to no help! Looks like they helped you a lot. I can't wait to see the results of the pump. You're really great at doing all you need to do to accomplish your goals, Adam!! 🌟👍 God bless you and your family! 🥰🙏🥰

[onlinecheatersexposed]

9:57 thanks, i have never thought of that.. so simple yet very effective

[Kent_Lepard]

I’m thinking the number of holes or the size of holes in your Swiss cheese pipe needs to be increased significantly. Good luck!

[Jim-iqbx]

Fill 4” pipe with expanding foam. Great Stuff.

[IndyFarmLife]

Our setup from RPS has been awesome so far. Our pond is starting to come up. It would probably come up faster if I would stop taking down the solar panels to do pull ups! 🤘 P.S. I like that you are going to have blue concrete for your posts.🙃

[davidbarnes]

Could you have mounted the solar panels on the barn roof, no need for ground mount? Also could have added a few more to charge batteries for the lights.

[robertmccall]

Ok I like the concept.... What about when the float switch trips and turns the pump off then pond 2.1 the overflow pond backfills pond 2.0 this could be done with a raised dam and a pipe.

[davidepperson]

Great job.
But curious why you didn’t put the solar array on the roof of the nearby building?

[harlyjock]

Couple of things: what happens in the winter when both ponds are frozen with this submerged equipment and IMO while doing this project i would 100% take the time ro connect to the new building and consider how to grow that array to power rhe home. Might have been a better location for the array closer to your home, etc.