So quite a few of you have seen my previous videos where I show the system that allowed me to haul 300 gallons of water in the back of our pickup truck in order to bring water from our well in the meadow to the top of the hill. Mom has been working on putting together an amazing garden - she is nursing not only some food that we can eat, but also for plants that we can use to provide shade to keep the future house cool, so we can spend less on air conditioning in the hot california summers.
Since we have this garden, we need a significant amount of water to keep it going, some times up to 700 gallons in a day.
One of the problems with this is that every single time we need water out of our well, we would need to flush out the nasty water for around 20 minutes, then fill a storage tank that would then fill the tank in the back of the truck. After a while this whole process become very time consuming and was nearly a full time job! After watching my step-dad haul all this water day in and day out, I said enough is enough. I ordered up 1400ft of 1" pvc pipe, which had cost me around $600, then picked up a few fittings (another $150) and started gluing up pipe to run up the hill. I had glued a good handfull of sections together, then pulled that section down the steep face of the hill (from the top down), then put a union and then more pipe.
My biggest concern was the amount of pressure that would be on the pipe and the well from pushing the water up the hill. At the bottom of the hill (when not pumping water) we have 70psi simply from gravity pulling the water down. Since water has a force of 1 psi per 2 feet of vertical rise, you can calculate that there is around 140 ft in elevation change to get to the top of the hill. This means when we are trying to push 12 gallons per minute through a 1" pvc pipe, we have around 135 PSI of pressure at the bottom of the hill! I did install a hose spigot, but have yet to put a water hose on it.
I imagine that at that much pressure if I were to put a jet nozzle on the hose (one of those ones that brings the water out through a hole approx. 3/16" diameter), the water would probably go 50 feet across the meadow! My only concern with that would be that the hose could explode!
As I noted in the video, I was previously running on an onan generator that has 7000 watts of capacity, and then taking the 120v output of that and sending it through a solaredge autotransformer to bring it up to 240 volts. Unfortunately the nema 12x rating on that autotransformer was not a real rating and that had failed due to water damage on the inside. My theory is that water got into it, then was never able to get out.
Dont forget to check out my second channel, HighTechAdventure. There will be come B-roll video on that channel to take a look at!
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