So I bought a new hose reel for obvious reasons. I had my hose hooked up directly from the pump before. So now if I set my hose reel it seems that water would be restricted bc in between where your hose connects on either side are is way smaller than my 5/8 hose. Does that make a big difference with the spraying distance?
If you don’t have good flow then you should go direct to your buffer tank and just use hose reel as storage. If your flow is great then it doesn’t matter (you still have to unroll your hose on reel to let it inflate fully). I have 50s and a 100 on my supply reel and mounted next to supply reel is a full flow 3/4” Y that I can put two hoses in from different spigots (or one from whip from reel and one from direct to spigot or just one/the other whatever suits the situation). That Y has individual valves and merges to 1” non collapsible hose to a 55 gallon drum with a Hudson float valve. The drum is plumbed with a bottom connection to another 55 gallon drum giving me ~110 gallons of water when full.
Works for me.
Is this your supply hose reel? That you hook up to the houses’ spigot?
oh man, disregard my comments above, lol…I’m going to say he edited the post after I replied but maybe my reading comprehension really was that bad…it does sound like he’s talking about a 12v hose reel now that I read it more carefully. That he runs 5/8" hose on his reel and probably has a 1/2" manifold and is worried about restriction going through his reel from 12v pump to 5/8" hose.
The answer is just to run a test. Measure your distance going straight from pump through hose then connect it up through reel and measure again and compare.
