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Pump suggestions for fountain
I have a swimming pool filter that is driving me crazy to come up with
something to make out of it. I finally decided to use it as a base for a floating / submerged support for a fountain in the middle of my pond. Plan is to use a submersible pump, mounted to a plate attached on top of this large roundish shaped filter container that will be installed where the normal flush, backwash etc valve is normally found. Two or three eye bolts near the bottom on the sides to moor it from three or so directions, with cables attached to concrete block anchors on pond bottom. I plan on ballasting this filter assembly so it will float with the pump side up, but still able to be kept submerged under the waters surface to allow for when water level drops. Its a 1 acre pond so I need something with at least a 100 foot or so lead or capability to extend power lead. Price of a commercial fountain kit is out of the question, due to prices, and believe one can be made with a decent submersible. Would like a lot of flow for a decent fountain and quanity of water (not necesarily for display as much as for aeration and keeping floatsum off the ponds surface. Basically all I am going to need is a pump, the rest I can make myself such as the fountain heads etc. Any suggestions appreciated Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wife, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. |
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"Roy" wrote in message ... I have a swimming pool filter that is driving me crazy to come up with something to make out of it. I finally decided to use it as a base for a floating / submerged support for a fountain in the middle of my pond. Plan is to use a submersible pump, mounted to a plate attached on top of this large roundish shaped filter container that will be installed where the normal flush, backwash etc valve is normally found. Two or three eye bolts near the bottom on the sides to moor it from three or so directions, with cables attached to concrete block anchors on pond bottom. I plan on ballasting this filter assembly so it will float with the pump side up, but still able to be kept submerged under the waters surface to allow for when water level drops. Its a 1 acre pond so I need something with at least a 100 foot or so lead or capability to extend power lead. Price of a commercial fountain kit is out of the question, due to prices, and believe one can be made with a decent submersible. Would like a lot of flow for a decent fountain and quanity of water (not necesarily for display as much as for aeration and keeping floatsum off the ponds surface. Basically all I am going to need is a pump, the rest I can make myself such as the fountain heads etc. Any suggestions appreciated Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wife, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. Flotec makes a stainless steel waterfall pump that has a 4100 gal/hr capacity that might be right up your ally: http://www.flotecpump.com/asp/Product.asp?PId=283 My garden pond filter is an old jacuzzi pool filter that I converted for use with the pond. I gutted it, and had a glass company make a 1/2" thick Lexan plate for the top cover. I used the original backflush valve bolts to bolt it to the top of the filter. The pump is mounted underneath the cover, and sits in the water, above the filter material. I drilled holes through the cover and ran ABS fittings through it for the water outlet, and bought a rubber grommet at a hardware store to run the electrical supply through the cover, so everything comes out of the top. The bottom had a drain plug that I overdrilled in order to make the hole larger, then I ran a threaded coupling through it and fitted the coupling on the outside with a 90 degree elbow, then connected the inlet hose to the elbow. The filter inlet hose is connected to a pre-filter that I periodically clean. I never have to clean the main filter. On the inside, I have a stainless steel in-line basket strainer connected to the threaded coupling. It sits vertically inside the tank. Then I have about 40 lbs of washed gravel around the strainer that covers it completely. It works very well as a filter for my pond. The entire system is a suction system instead of a postive pressure system. I can see you using a similar setup (with the cover and pump, but perhaps without all of the filtration) for your fountain setup. Just remember that whatever you do, you need to make it so that debris doesn't clog the pump or the fountain, perhaps the in-line basket strainer would suffice. Just make it so that you can backflush it under pressure if the basket strainer gets clogged. |
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"Roy" wrote in message ... I have a swimming pool filter that is driving me crazy to come up with something to make out of it. I finally decided to use it as a base for a floating / submerged support for a fountain in the middle of my pond. Plan is to use a submersible pump, mounted to a plate attached on top of this large roundish shaped filter container that will be installed where the normal flush, backwash etc valve is normally found. Two or three eye bolts near the bottom on the sides to moor it from three or so directions, with cables attached to concrete block anchors on pond bottom. I plan on ballasting this filter assembly so it will float with the pump side up, but still able to be kept submerged under the waters surface to allow for when water level drops. Its a 1 acre pond so I need something with at least a 100 foot or so lead or capability to extend power lead. Price of a commercial fountain kit is out of the question, due to prices, and believe one can be made with a decent submersible. Would like a lot of flow for a decent fountain and quanity of water (not necesarily for display as much as for aeration and keeping floatsum off the ponds surface. Basically all I am going to need is a pump, the rest I can make myself such as the fountain heads etc. Any suggestions appreciated Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wife, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. Flotec makes a stainless steel waterfall pump that has a 4100 gal/hr capacity that might be right up your ally: http://www.flotecpump.com/asp/Product.asp?PId=283 My garden pond filter is an old jacuzzi pool filter that I converted for use with the pond. I gutted it, and had a glass company make a 1/2" thick Lexan plate for the top cover. I used the original backflush valve bolts to bolt it to the top of the filter. The pump is mounted underneath the cover, and sits in the water, above the filter material. I drilled holes through the cover and ran ABS fittings through it for the water outlet, and bought a rubber grommet at a hardware store to run the electrical supply through the cover, so everything comes out of the top. The bottom had a drain plug that I overdrilled in order to make the hole larger, then I ran a threaded coupling through it and fitted the coupling on the outside with a 90 degree elbow, then connected the inlet hose to the elbow. The filter inlet hose is connected to a pre-filter that I periodically clean. I never have to clean the main filter. On the inside, I have a stainless steel in-line basket strainer connected to the threaded coupling. It sits vertically inside the tank. Then I have about 40 lbs of washed gravel around the strainer that covers it completely. It works very well as a filter for my pond. The entire system is a suction system instead of a postive pressure system. I can see you using a similar setup (with the cover and pump, but perhaps without all of the filtration) for your fountain setup. Just remember that whatever you do, you need to make it so that debris doesn't clog the pump or the fountain, perhaps the in-line basket strainer would suffice. Just make it so that you can backflush it under pressure if the basket strainer gets clogged. |
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"Roy" wrote in message ... I have a swimming pool filter that is driving me crazy to come up with something to make out of it. I finally decided to use it as a base for a floating / submerged support for a fountain in the middle of my pond. Plan is to use a submersible pump, mounted to a plate attached on top of this large roundish shaped filter container that will be installed where the normal flush, backwash etc valve is normally found. Two or three eye bolts near the bottom on the sides to moor it from three or so directions, with cables attached to concrete block anchors on pond bottom. I plan on ballasting this filter assembly so it will float with the pump side up, but still able to be kept submerged under the waters surface to allow for when water level drops. Its a 1 acre pond so I need something with at least a 100 foot or so lead or capability to extend power lead. Price of a commercial fountain kit is out of the question, due to prices, and believe one can be made with a decent submersible. Would like a lot of flow for a decent fountain and quanity of water (not necesarily for display as much as for aeration and keeping floatsum off the ponds surface. Basically all I am going to need is a pump, the rest I can make myself such as the fountain heads etc. Any suggestions appreciated Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wife, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. Flotec makes a stainless steel waterfall pump that has a 4100 gal/hr capacity that might be right up your ally: http://www.flotecpump.com/asp/Product.asp?PId=283 My garden pond filter is an old jacuzzi pool filter that I converted for use with the pond. I gutted it, and had a glass company make a 1/2" thick Lexan plate for the top cover. I used the original backflush valve bolts to bolt it to the top of the filter. The pump is mounted underneath the cover, and sits in the water, above the filter material. I drilled holes through the cover and ran ABS fittings through it for the water outlet, and bought a rubber grommet at a hardware store to run the electrical supply through the cover, so everything comes out of the top. The bottom had a drain plug that I overdrilled in order to make the hole larger, then I ran a threaded coupling through it and fitted the coupling on the outside with a 90 degree elbow, then connected the inlet hose to the elbow. The filter inlet hose is connected to a pre-filter that I periodically clean. I never have to clean the main filter. On the inside, I have a stainless steel in-line basket strainer connected to the threaded coupling. It sits vertically inside the tank. Then I have about 40 lbs of washed gravel around the strainer that covers it completely. It works very well as a filter for my pond. The entire system is a suction system instead of a postive pressure system. I can see you using a similar setup (with the cover and pump, but perhaps without all of the filtration) for your fountain setup. Just remember that whatever you do, you need to make it so that debris doesn't clog the pump or the fountain, perhaps the in-line basket strainer would suffice. Just make it so that you can backflush it under pressure if the basket strainer gets clogged. |
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