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[Buckeye Hydro]

Can you physically lower the entire pump so you can take advantage of more of your tank volume?

 

[Noob]

It’s on a stand so it would take some rigging. I could potentially take it off the legs and mount the play to the wall. The regulator is actually pretty low. Could the pump be turned on its side?

 

[OurTown]

Can you physically lower the entire pump so you can take advantage of more of your tank volume?

Or put the tank on a stand. Or both.

 

[cbchevy4x4]

My pumps are sitting higher like yours, never been an issue. My low water shut off is low in the tank. As i said before with a check as the fail safe to keep prime but more importantly keeping your tank level above the inlet you shouldn't have any issues, i never have.

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

As long as the check valve works 100%... you should be ok. But that pump will destroy itself if ever run dry.

 

[Randy]

Try laying the pump on the floor so it's in a flooded state all the time. We have all of our pump laying horizontal, slightly lower than the bottom of the tank. We do this there is always water going to the pump, this also helps make the pump last longer, it doesn't have to work so hard.

 

[Noob]

Randy, did you make a floor stand for the pump to pay on? Buy one? Bolt straight to the floor?

 

[Dan kamsickas]

Finally got to work on hooking up the delivery system today. I can’t seem to get the pump to prime. Does anybody have any pointers. The pump kicks on but there’s no water flow.

That's because that pump is meant to be gravity fed and the water level in your storage tank is lower than the inlet to the pump.

 

[Noob]

Is it normal for the system to still have pressure on it after it’s kicked off?

 

[Dan kamsickas]

Is it normal for the system to still have pressure on it after it’s kicked off?

Yup.

 

[Noob]

Should I install an overflow protection at the top of the tank that plumbed into a drain in case I have a float malfunction?

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Should I install an overflow protection at the top of the tank that plumbed into a drain in case I have a float malfunction?

Always good practice to do this.