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jonny thompson

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Pump pressure
« on: September 16, 2017, 12:35:01 pm »
Hi whenever my tank of water is getting near the bottom my flow rate drops quite a lot, any ideas why?

CleanClear

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2017, 02:40:00 pm »
Possibly your pump is mounted a bit high and uses most of its power sucking water out your tank as the level drops ?
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jonny thompson

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2017, 06:12:29 pm »
That's what I thought, can't think of any other reason

jonny thompson

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2017, 06:17:52 pm »
That's what I thought, can't think of any other reason, does it harm the pumps if I'm having to run them at say 70-90 for an hour at the end of the day

Susan Dean (1stclean)

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2017, 06:30:01 pm »
That's what I thought, can't think of any other reason, does it harm the pumps if I'm having to run them at say 70-90 for an hour at the end of the day

we run ours at 100  every day so don't worrie about it

CleanClear

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2017, 06:54:18 pm »
It wouldn't harm them, you'll just use a bit more battery power i suppose. Can you not just lower the pump a bit ?
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jonny thompson

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2017, 07:39:38 pm »
Doesn't it make a right racket running it on full , I keep thinking it's going to explode when I turn it up that much😀

martinw

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2017, 07:59:56 pm »
You might be getting air bubbles in pump forcing you to run pump on higher settings and creating noise you mention.

duncan h

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2017, 08:09:11 pm »
I get the same problem. My pump is fitted low down. I think is just more of a strain. I have a  350 ltr tank. I bet the 650 tanks don't suffer as much.
Also if I let it get low it draws in takes ages to kick in again, once full

slap bash

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2017, 05:13:19 pm »
Hi whenever my tank of water is getting near the bottom my flow rate drops quite a lot, any ideas why?

ITS QUITE EASY TO SOLVE. FILL THE TANK UP.

robert mitchell

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Re: Pump pressure
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2017, 10:39:54 pm »
Hi whenever my tank of water is getting near the bottom my flow rate drops quite a lot, any ideas why?

ITS QUITE EASY TO SOLVE. FILL THE TANK UP.

fill it up from where?

most people need the tank to last all day ::)roll
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