Water Pump Success - Solar Powered Pressurized Water OFF-GRID

if you'll remember to several weeks ago we had a total failure on the water position it was a failure in every sense of the word the water part failed the power part failed but we learned oh yeah we figured it out but I'm just saying that's what gets us here good morning big project weekend over here we are hopefully installing our shallow well pump which is over there we're gonna attach it to our big 2,600 gallon water tank but to do that we have to build an enclosure for it because eventually is gonna get cold here so we've completely over engineered this massive tiny pump house massive tiny pump house like that makes sense it's gonna fit the pump and we're gonna go dig some lines underneath run some electrical to it is kind of gonna be the whole thing like most of our things here we've got the framing done we're getting room with the walls and the insulation on and then we got to get it set in place and then we can put the pump in and start running connections and stuff like that so we'll show you what we got our first idea for the pump was actually to use small 12-volt water pump little solar panel the battery would run by itself and then we got cold feet so we went the other direction and we bought like the biggest pump known to man it's like a one-horsepower shallow well pump we got it all hooked that we had so much trouble with leak with leaks because it had a lot of there were some threaded fittings and the water pressure was really really high and so it just we plumbed and replumbed and we learned so much about plumbing and how you need to like give yourself an out when your plumbing so we learned a lot about that but then after we finally figured that out we had a huge power problem and so what we didn't realize that this pump said it ran at a certain amperage on 120 volt but it had a start-up amperage of like ten times that which they didn't list anymore so our inverter couldn't handle it so then we thought well maybe we'll get a bigger inverter it would be easy just we'll just throw you know and like at this point we've spent $800 on an inverter and hundreds of dollars on plumbing fittings oh my gosh so many who me and we hook up the new inverter and guess what happens it does not work because our entire system wasn't wired for a 3000 watt inverter we need to have like much thicker wire to go on there but we were able to return it so we decided to go back to our original plan so we're happy to report that our gut feeling was correct and that our original plan would have worked the whole time and so basically well all we have is a tiny little 12-volt pump it's like this big so here's what we did we actually bought the same pump that's that we've had in our RV for four years yeah and it's been great like super solid and reliable and so we're like we'll just get the same thing so it's like a three and a half gallon per minute pump we ditched all the PVC garbage and we just went with flexible hosing and hose Barb's and yeah and guess what those are real easy to put on and take off so that was much much easier we have some flexible hose so we had a lot of just more flexibility and like how we we spent Father's Day weekend connecting everything and it actually worked the only other thing that we really wanted to do to kind of make it work even better was add an accumulator tank or a pressurized tank and it was a really good thing that I built it so big yes because it fits perfectly so we bought the biggest accumulator tank we could get it's a 36 gallon so it Dwarfs the pub it looks so funny in there yeah this person but it's cool because that means that we can pressurize I don't think it pressurizes cool 36 gallons but it pressurizes a lot of water so if we barely want to turn it on we've got that pressure for a long time like we've got water probably five minutes before the pump even needs to kick which is pretty cool so that's all in there it's all connected we added hinges so that we can just lift the lid up instead of having to like take it off and it was kind of hoping we might add a switch we can just turn the whole system on and off without having to actually get in there and do anything I don't know I haven't decided if we're gonna bother with that yeah oh and we need to finish sealing it up because we already have two black widows in there yeah and so many cricket well in the final phase of the project so we have two T's in the system wait one that goes to the pressure tank one that goes to the water hose spigot outside of the pump house the third line will go underground so we're gonna have to drill a hole on the bottom of the pump house and run a line underground about a hundred feet near the air stream where it'll pop up and yeah we really need to do that yeah but we've been using water pressurized water for a couple of weeks no wait she did really good thanks I finally figured it out cost us an enormous amount of time and money that's okay it's not tough at all those wasted sitting popular okay click update because we know you all just care about the button so [Applause] [Music] ow [Music] [Applause] now that we have water and it's not leaking we're moving on to another project a couple of videos ago we asked people what we should do next basically we're doing offense that was what the majority of people thought and that's really kind of what we saw with you since fencing is gonna be our next big projects we kind of need your help we've already done a lot of research but we would love to hear from you all if you know of any types of fencing we should be used maybe we haven't heard of yeah we've looked at a bunch but you know there's a lot out there and we're just wrong as the control for information so let us know in the comments if you have any ideas for us and we'll see you next time [Music]