It should be called solar powered junk. Solar powered anything without
a battery backup bank is a waste of time. Figure in the price of a
battery for backup and sufficient solar grids to recharge the battery,
and you can have a couple of hundred bucks tied up in a heart beat and
still not have an efficient solar powered anything. Like you said,
what do you do at night, thats when its need most when plants take
what fish need...........and then cloudy overcast, or rainy
days.............Without battery backup for operation its a waste of
money, and odds are even with a battery back up and larger solar
panels etc it would still be overly expensive for what capacity it
has, as to be able to run on solar power alone there sure is not much
to that pump. Folks in great britain would be broke for sure if they
relied on solar power.

Perhaps for a fountain without any fish, and if it happened to work
one day fine and if not fine again no big deal nothing lost but the
water display......but not if it had fish in it.


On 8 Mar 2005 16:52:49 -0800, "kathy" wrote:

===I've seen solar powered water pumps/fountains
===before but today's catalog has a solar powered
===air pump to 'encouraging consistently clear
===and clean water'. It is $59.50. The catalog
===is SolutionsCatalog.com I guess it would be
===dollars to donuts, a solar powered fountain
===or air pump for the health of the pond, don't
===you think? Both lack running at night time
===when plants switch from producing O2 to
===consuming it.
===
===I run an air pump in my deck pond, plugged
===into the wall socket. Last year the deck pond
===held a tropical lily. This year jan's lotus is
===in there. The air pump has been taken out of the
===pond and will be moved up to the deck soon.
===
===kathy :-)


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