water the yard with while doing a water change

[rotccapt]

so me and my wife had the idea of taking a quiet one 1200 pump and attach my gravel vac to the input of the pump. the output of the pump would go through a low micron filter bag to catch most of the large particulate. then it would continue through a hose to a pulsating sprinkler to water my front yard as i clean my tank. what are your thoughts on the idea?

what would be a good micron filter bag to use my options are 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200. i am thinking 1 to 10 would be good

 

[kendragon]

Won't work if you put it through the sprinklers. You're better off pumping it right on to the lawn or in a gray water tank for hand watering.
I do maintenance on a pond I built for someone and I pump out about 500 gal per week backwashing the filter into a tank. They installed a system like yours, pumping through the sprinklers. The pump required cost $1000 because it is a special cast iron pump that pumps the water at a very high psi to get the sprinkler heads to pop up. The pump runs so hot that it melted the pvc pipe attached. There's constant clogging even with a prefilter. It's summer now so the water not used smells real bad and algae is forming in the tank.

 

[rotccapt]

i will be running one sprinkler head which would be one of those rainbird type sprinklers seen here http://www.lowes.com/pd_108426-7498...br|0||p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1&facetInfo= that you attach to a hose and stick in the ground and it ticks from one extream to the other. my thinking is that if it can run off of a hose it should work for my idea i my try it with my python first and see what it does before getting the pump and pre-filter

 

[kendragon]

Impact sprinkler require high vol of water. Hose=head pressure lost. Good luck. Isn't the python gravity syphon?

 

[rotccapt]

no it uses one of those water bed facet pumps

 

[Good_Times]

Maybe if u can store the siphoned water in a tank and then connect a pipe from the tank to a valve or 1-way valve, and then connect the pipe from the valve to the pipe of the sprinkler. So when you turn on the sprinkler and open the valve it should create a siphon that sucks the water from the storage tank. Its the same principle used to water a garden with liquid ferteliser without having to dilute it before hand. The downside is, u have to use the the tap water in conjunction with the stored water, and the flow rate per gallon from storage tank to garden is less than with pump. Upside, you don't have to spend money on pump

 

[rotccapt]

for now i am thinking of just adding a hose to the end of my python and run it to the sprinkler with this setup i would have the full house pressure which the sprinkler runs on anyway plus the tank water only thing i would have to watch for is clogging of the sprinkler

 

[JteSchertz]

I just run it throught the hose and let me kids hand water the flowerbeds and the yard. I fine the dirtier the water is (gravel vac) the better my plants do. Good luck and let us know how it all turns out.

 

[Spyder001 USA]

for now i am thinking of just adding a hose to the end of my python and run it to the sprinkler with this setup i would have the full house pressure which the sprinkler runs on anyway plus the tank water only thing i would have to watch for is clogging of the sprinkler

It is a simple matter of physics and the answer is no.

Can syphon power a sprinkler with that length of head? No.

What does it take to power sprinklers? A high pressure pump.

Is this a good idea? No even when done by proffesionals it requires alot of work, maintence, and money.

Though he is told this all he still moves fowards, brave. Answers no to the question "is the python a syphon" lol

 

[Spyder001 USA]

Maybe if u can store the siphoned water in a tank and then connect a pipe from the tank to a valve or 1-way valve, and then connect the pipe from the valve to the pipe of the sprinkler. So when you turn on the sprinkler and open the valve it should create a siphon that sucks the water from the storage tank. Its the same principle used to water a garden with liquid ferteliser without having to dilute it before hand. The downside is, u have to use the the tap water in conjunction with the stored water, and the flow rate per gallon from storage tank to garden is less than with pump. Upside, you don't have to spend money on pump

If the source isnt water tight it wont create a vacumn. My powerwasher uses soap under the princinple if the container holding the soap is no longer air tight it creates a place for pressure to escape and water starts to exit. So Im pretty sure with out precission engineering the end result would be water shooting out the hole instead of a syphon starting.