today on Steve Robb reviews I'm going to show you this whole setup that I've got mocked up already
I've got it all ready to go so next summer I can install all this I'm going to show you
what's behind it I'm going to show you exactly how it all operates and I got a pump now I've
just kind of mocked out so far the box I'm gonna finish the Box a later date but I'm gonna show you
everything how this is supposed to go together and I'm gonna transport this in my truck and
hopefully I would say in August you're gonna see this thing working so let's take a look and let's
see how it's all put together well let's start off at the back end here and you can see I got my
wiring harness here and it comes up to my control panel I showed how the control panel all went
together before and if you haven't seen that I'll put a link down below for that video and you can
see you got the battery on the right the middle is for the solar panel and I've got the switch
for the pump so how did this all go together well you can see I just put a couple of aluminum
strips there and I've got some half-decent beefy fasteners and all I did was attach the solar panel
with a couple of pieces of aluminum angle and you could see there where I'm just using these
fasteners to go in right there and that should be no problem down below there you can see I've
got the battery box in there and that's what the battery box will go and you take a look here you
can see how this was designed and it's just meant to go on a 45 and if we take a look in here yeah
you can see where I can put them two fasteners right in there easy no problem so I made it so
that it was on a 45 degree angle and for me I find 45 degrees is just about right what I'm gonna need
and it's very easy you know you just mock up this hair no problem and we'll go around the
other side here and you could see how the angles are and if we take a look at here you could see
where I've got a fastener here and a fastener here now that's a carriage bolt to go through because
when I built this the top that I could go here the highest I can go in the back of my truck is this
level here so this one here will detach and just pull right up and when I get up there I can just
put the two carriage bolts in on each side and it's that easy and there's this little junction
box for all the wiring so I'm going to zip tie here everything nice when I get up there and my
pump and everything it's gonna go right on this platform here and I'm also going to fasten the
platform down so it doesn't move at all and I've got a couple of spots in the front there a little
bit of an excess on the stud now this is all made out of 2x4 spruce except a couple of pieces I had
which were pressure treated like this one here and the two rails on the bottom besides that I
just stained it all so that's it right there and let's take a look at the pump and let's see what
I've got going on there okay so there's the pump setup and the inlet here I've got a strainer on
and I've got this is just like a big wingnut so I can take this off and if you notice I've got a
hole right here and I'll get the hose when this is all finished look at the hose and bring it through
to the outside and here's the pump here this is a 60 psi pump now I did phone sure fall and get
their recommendations on what I was doing and this is the pump right here and the pump number
that 8000 number five four three two three six and this is not an intermittent duty pump it's
a continuous duty pump and the most I'm going to this is probably about one gallon a minute
and of course I get this all plumbed in like this very simple to do and I put a gauge on it and you
can see where I've got the holes going out the end there so all I got is my just my connections here
so what I'm gonna do is when I finish the box I'm gonna bring a hole through this side and attach
these two on and then I'll have my receptacle plug and I'm gonna show you how that all goes together
I got a special jig that melts on the outside here for the receptacle to make it waterproof and just
want to show you here this particular hose I get now see how it's thin wall I have tried the thick
wall hose like this in the past and I don't like it I don't like it at all because it's way too
thick and these hose clamps using these type of clamps well I was getting leaks especially when
it got colder so I decided to go with the thin wall and that should be fine but that's the setup
right there very simple so you know when this is wired in how I'm gonna do is have a hole through
this particular side of the box and that extension cord will just be hanging out and it'll attach to
my lead that goes over to the electrical station with a switch that'll turn off and on and if you
wonder what this allen key is well I'll just show you on these pumps if you look raid in the end
there yeah that's how you jump adjust the pump pressure and I've got a foot valve right here
a little bit of a strainer on and I've got two more of these fittings and these fittings will
go on the outside over here and I'll just show you aware so the holes would come out and this
will go on here now what attaches on here is all Peck's plumbing so I'm going with PEX for all the
rest and I have about 150 feet to move water and that's it right there now the only thing
that I've done that maybe I can't show you I'm not too sure if I have enough light but if you
just take a look great in there you couldn't just yeah they're right there you see that right there
so that's a piece of metal flash or an aluminum flashing and on the bottom here yeah there it is
right there and the whole idea behind that is make sure no mice can get in there right so that's two
layers of screening plus what do you do if you get a leak yeah so what do you do if you get a
leak in here you just fill your box up and you'd wreck everything right so you gotta have a dream
so I where's the logical place put it right underneath the pump right so that's it right
there well there's a couple of things I'd like to just mention before I wrap this up is I made sure
that I put a pressure pump on here gage because if you take a look at all these sure fuel sure flow
pumps as the PSI climbs so does the amperage draw so the max empress draw on this for sixty psi is
going to be around eight amps so at 30 it's around three amps so that's why I want to take a look and
see exactly how much pressure this is building up as I go with my over a hundred feet that I have to
travel and it's uphill you never seen my cabin before and around my camp well I've got like a
45 degree angle and I'm gonna have to go throwing in a melt this panel right in front of where I'm
gonna dig my well and I'm gonna pump this water that far now I made sure you can get all these
other type of pumps that are intermittent duty I didn't want that and of course when I built
this box I'm gonna take the lid off while it's working right you don't want to have too much
heat in there as well but if you buy a continuous duty pump there's a huge difference between the
two this here will only run maybe I'm saying the most gonna need is maybe an hour an hour maybe 20
minutes tops to do all the watering that I need to fill all my barrels but if you take a look at
their flow charts the intermittent Duty ones when I phoned cheerful they said like 45 minutes max
because then the pump will start overheating so I made sure I got a continuous duty one and the
continuous duty ones was actually pumping a lot less water and you know what I don't know how
much flow I'm gonna get out of my well I haven't drilled the well yet but hopefully you're gonna
see it and one gallon I would be happy with one gallon the most this thing will pump I believe
is 1.8 gallons per minute I'd be happy with one gallon because what is the draw inside the well I
don't want to run this dry now these pumps can run dry without damaging them but you just can't run
them forever dry right so this is the setup right here I hope you like it it's it's very basic and
it's very easy to do if you just take your time you think it all out and with the platform here
this is a hundred watt solar panel I had the panel already and I think it's gonna work out fine so I
had to make it so it's like a plug-and-play I'll put everything in the back of my truck I take it
out I can mount it and it all just goes in real easy and I'm gonna show all this in action when
I actually have it all ready to go after I drill the well and the drill drilling the well part
is going to be the hardest part so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this
channel before you're welcome to subscribe and watching the future well this summer hopefully
this project works out like I planned and I'll have my own source of easy running water where all
I have to do is go down to this control panel here flip the switch and I've got water okay these guys
hopefully stay tuned for this next summer come back again and let's have some more fun Cheers