welcome back to Steve Rob reviews today we're going to do a little bit of a update on my 12 volt
solar water pump I've covered the lines up I'll show you this and I got a new water filtration
system that I'm trying out and so let's get to it right now and I'll show you what's going on
okay so as you can see here well yeah I covered it all up at that black wire loom and that's pretty
easy to do and I got pump turned on and it's just sitting there holding pressure and when it flows
well it pretty well stays pegged at 20 psi we're gonna have to see what it looks like when it's
going through the filter so this is where the water is coming from right there and this is
two weeks after I put all that salt in here to get rid of all that growth and you can see yeah
she's starting to turn yellow so it's starting to work we'll see what happens at the end of the
month here but let's go up the hill and let's see what projects I got going on today so up at the
top here we've got the barrel we have to fill the barrel up full of water and you can see where I
put the block loom around here too and this is to prevent the Picts pipe from being exposed to the
Sun and deteriorating but here we are right here I just turn the water on and there's the water
flowing there so what we have to do here today is come over here and fill up the barrel so what I've
added was this filtering system now the water that's going to go in here is going to probably
look pretty dark because you know all that vegetation over the years that just falls into the
water in the fall well it makes the water murky but this is a 50 micron filter and I keep all my
filters in here and it comes through here this is another little sediment filter that I really
don't need that anymore tell you the truth and five micron filter so everything's going through
this five five micron filter after it draws the water from here so I'm gonna get this all set up
and I'll show you how it all works and we're going to see how much pressure it actually takes to push
through that filter now 50 microns I have no idea so this is just a quick connector on here it could
take off so that the bugs and everything don't go into either end so let's get set up and I'll
show you what's going on okay so I got everything all hooked up and you know what I'm getting a new
hose here I don't need no 100 foot hose here so I'm gonna go with a 50 footer and there it
is in there so I'm just gonna turn the water on and then I'm gonna come over here you could see
it build it up and I don't see anything going through it yet oh I hear something here we go
so let's go over here and take a look at the water going in now that's not too bad eh well
I got a couple of leaks so I'm gonna have to I didn't put no teflon tape on here so I'm gonna
have to take that apart put some teflon tape but it doesn't really matter if that weeks are
a bit anyways I mean it's all going through the filter okay so what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna let that run down there and for use that are interested here this is just upside down
that's my little cup I use and right there is about 3/4 of a cup so I use between 3/4 of a
cup and 1 cup of just regular bleach to put in here and I let it sit for at least 24 hours so
let's go down to the down to the pump and see how much pressure is building up in this okay
so let's take a look and see here Wow if I just had the hose just running on his own
which is around 20 but the good part about that is you'll be able to see how plug that
filter get behind by how much pressure the pump is building let's go back up there and
see I bet you there's some dirt in this system so let's go back up to the filter and just take
a look and see Tony been running for about three minutes now but I bet you there's some contaminate
well definitely I can see some contamination already can you see that there yeah it's more
so down the bottom than the rest but the water seems to be falling fine and like I said this
one here is a 5 micron so I'll go inside I'll show you a little bit of the shower room and
the shower setup well this is the shower room here and it's kind of a storage room - when I store all
my stuff and you're silent yeah lots of storage here so you just come or here turn it on over here
there you go
you got water running so that's really all you need right okay so now this is all my stuff I got
to winterize it and put the plumbing antifreeze in and this is just a bit of storage here and some
towels and over here yeah when I'm running the gen set for the hot-water tank in there in the fall I
take this heater and I move it over more turn it on keeps this place nice and warm when you want
to have a shower okay so let's get to it here okay we're back and here's the filter here so you could
tell yeah it's collecting a lot so how many times would I fill this barrel a year well it's about
three times tops so I'd use one of these filters for the whole year and that's about it so there's
the water they're running and you could see well I only fill it up to a boat here and that's it
so that's not bad there now if you're wondering what this line rate there is well when I have the
shower on when I turn like the valve off well this will bleed down through the system and that's a
good thing to do because I don't keep my I don't keep my pressure tank you know full of pressure
all the time so I let it bleed down and it lets the pump run rather than off on off on type of
thing so that's it right there so let's go over I don't think I'll shut it off right about there so
now we just got to go over come down here and turn off the water now I did go down there you can hear
the pump shut off I did go down there and I felt the pump twice now and it's just barely lukewarm
so it does not run hot or anything and that's just great well thanks for joining me here today I hope
you enjoyed this a little bit of a update and I'll let you know in the future how the whole water
system works out and them water cartridges where they're fifty microns is good enough or whether I
should go down to you know maybe twenty or thirty but so far it seems to be fine for the amount of
time that I'm up here using the water like I just say only three times a year do I actually have
to fill that and I get about maybe seven showers out of 50 gallons so that's not too bad at all so
well thank you joining me here today and you could see in the background yeah I've been busy cutting
grass cutting grass cutting grass these guys never seen this channel before you welcome to subscribe
and come back again to Northern Ontario I like to have a lot of fun and I hope you do too Cheers