It’s the same pump they’ve had for awhile, the pumptec x-6 but the previouswas built out of aluminum. The new pvc one they’ve just started selling in past few months for use with SH. The guy near me helped them develop it. And it does pull every bit of 60amps, thus you have to run dual batteries with it. It’s pretty impressive.
Watch this video starting at the 13.40 mark. This was with the old pump while they were doing some beta testing.
The guy he keeps referring to lives about 20 min from me. What he’s got in the works is even more impressive. He’s developed a regulator piece that blends this pump with a regular pw that will smoke a gas system, especially in reliabilty.
The system like you see here though, by the time you get pump, box, controller, various other banjos and with various other automation runs about $3500-$4000
Hey racer, little question for you since you know way more than me. Why can’t someone use an electric pump, the 1/2hp pool pumps that can put out 30 gal a minute only run about 150-200. I was just down at my buddies pool shop shooting the breeze because we’ve gotten about 50 plus hours of non stop rain here. I mean you could run reducers and constrict flow, they are meant to handle chemicals, just wondering.
Awful big pumps and they’re all 120v so you’d need at least a long extension cord or better yet a generator. They’re not really made for high concentrations of chemicals either.
Yeah, I’m not very knowedgeable about 12v or 24v systems. I just figured for the expense of some of those 24v pumps I could run one of and a generator or extension cord way cheaper. The pumps sit outside all year in many locations and they can be set on timer to run pool chems through them all year.
Just curious. Besides that pump he shows in the video is huge, looks about the size of a pool pump.
Also, they’re not self-priming and you really don’t want to ever run them dry. If you had an air pocket in one you could burn up the pump pretty easily and in order to re-prime it you’d have to pop the lid off and dump a load of water in there. Not to mention the mess you’d make while doing that.
not arguing, but they never flush them for the most part, most homeowners don’t. He said he hardly gets calls on the pumps, they do go bad though. Just caught my eye while I was there and I had him look it up in his book.
Possibly. Would probably have to force feed it with a small pump just to ensure you get a good prime every time though so it would probably defeat the purpose.
Back to this for a second…it could possibly prime with enough head pressure from the buffer tank. Obviously the inlet would have to be plumbed as low as possible in the tank and the tank would probably have to be full–depending on how big of a tank it is.
Jimmy Hall is his name I think. He’s in a contractors FB group chat. Got a video of him using the x6 and spraying some soap then rinsing it off, really interesting stuff.
Might work. Thanks for volunteering to get that puppy going. I think it might handle the chem, but the priming is a concern. As long as you had sitting below buffer tank might work. The other thing is those things can run hot real quick without a decent volume going thru, You’d need to restrict down after pump. and recirculate. Basically a roller pump aren’t they? Let us know how it comes out.
Dont mean to jump into your question to racer but my thought would be you can but you have an extra 110 volt extension cord to run to the customers house and in a commercial setting it may not be available. We have a big twin speed pool pump that never stops or fails and that would be cool. Like the 12v onboatd rigs a 10 gauge cable is recommended but you could need much longer 10 gage for that and depending whatever else is on that circuit you could blow it. Racer? Thoughts?
