Water pressure problem

[DrDankness]

Hello everyone. Im getting back into indoor gardening again after 5 years. Grew in coco once but in a slightly different setup. Going coco drip feed drain to waste this time around. I bought a 600 gph pump to pump the nutes up. I tried it out today and the emitters didnt do anything. Come to find out the pump only puts out 3.3 psi and the drippers need 10 psi to function. None of the aquarium/hydroponic style pumps i see online list the psi. Im going to be growing 30 plants in 1 gallon pots with .5 gph drippers. What would be a sufficient pump for this? Would something like this work? Flojet Potable Water Supply Pump, 12 VDC, 174 GPH R3526144A | Zoro.com Thanks in advance!

 

[Weaselcracker]

I found the same thing with electric pump so I just removed the drippers and whatnot, and ran open lines. A trial run pumping into containers will show how many minutes you need to run

 

[gr865]

Hello everyone. Im getting back into indoor gardening again after 5 years. Grew in coco once but in a slightly different setup. Going coco drip feed drain to waste this time around. I bought a 600 gph pump to pump the nutes up. I tried it out today and the emitters didnt do anything. Come to find out the pump only puts out 3.3 psi and the drippers need 10 psi to function. None of the aquarium/hydroponic style pumps i see online list the psi. Im going to be growing 30 plants in 1 gallon pots with .5 gph drippers. What would be a sufficient pump for this? Would something like this work? Flojet Potable Water Supply Pump, 12 VDC, 174 GPH R3526144A | Zoro.com Thanks in advance!

This is what I use, it is 12V 3 gallon min. @ i think Its 65#.

8 port Orbit manifold Have used three of them on one 24 plant grow.

Rainbird stream.

 

[DrDankness]

I found the same thing with electric pump so I just removed the drippers and whatnot, and ran open lines. A trial run pumping into containers will show how many minutes you need to run

I may try this. Im wanting to run pressure compensating emitters if possible though...

 

[DrDankness]

This is what I use, it is 12V 3 gallon min. @ i think Its 65#.

8 port Orbit manifold Have used three of them on one 24 plant grow.

Rainbird stream.

I found a pump thats similar to yours, but outputs 30 psi. My drippers only need 10psi. Could i run the 30 psi pump and use a pressure regulator to drop it to like 15? Or could i just run the .5 gph drippers off of the 30 psi?

 

[gr865]

I run a 35# reducer on my 65# pump. So yes you can. With 30 plants you may not need. I ran a 24 plant SOG with 2g/h drippers but had another pump that did 1.2 g/h @ 80 psi and did not have enough volume to run efficently. That is why I upgraded to the 3 g/h @ 65 psi. I an not running a SOG but I can run at least 16 plant if needed with this pump and the Rainbird emitters.
I am only running 5 to 8 plants at this point.

 

[DrDankness]

I think I'm going to go with this one.

SEAFLO 33-Series Industrial Water Pressure Pump w/Power Plug for Wall Outlet - 115VAC, 3.3 GPM, 45 PSI

45 psi and in my budget. My drippers are good from 10-60 psi.

 

[DrDankness]

I keep seeing all these pumps with pressure switches. Should i get one with or without a switch? Ill be running it on a timer if that makes any difference

 

[gr865]

I don't think you need it.