This is a geyser pump that i just made this afternoon out of a native plant of my backyard. its amazing what you can make when you dont have the money to buy pvc
I just built one and put it 40 ft down in my well. It was submerged 30 ft with a 10 ft head. still shot water 10+ feet in the air out of the top of a 1 in pipe.
To pump 20 ft high you need to go about 10 ft down under the water. (maybe less).
I made 10 ft deep pulser pumps and they can pump at least 8 meters high!
Why not see how high you can airlift with a bamboo stick?
(but how do you put a hole up through the knots in the bamboo?) You would need a special drill. This video got over 12 000 views. Imagine YOUR video of a 4 ft high airlift bamboo! You will get a hundred thousand views!!!
Ahh pleabargain, this is the fun point of geyser pumps. Say you went out in the ocean and lowered a 20 ft geyser pump 1 mile down in the water, it would still be able to push that column of water up and out- according to what i've read. What I do know is though say you have a well 200 feet deep or 300 or 400! a geyser pump will run it.
biowerks, aquarium under-gravel filters use air-lift pumps. not geyser pumps. air lift explores lots of tiny bubbles to create a suction. Geyser pumps generate one large bubble that fills the entire cavity of the up-tube which creates great suction, even enough to pick up small rocks and shoot them out the top!
Thank you for independently demonstrating the air lift principle and you did it very well and simply too!) I have waited years for this type of demonstration. So many people refuse to believe that it can be that simple.
I just built one and put it 40 ft down in my well. It was submerged 30 ft with a 10 ft head. still shot water 10+ feet in the air out of the top of a 1 in pipe.
PTBanjo 1 year ago
To pump 20 ft high you need to go about 10 ft down under the water. (maybe less).
I made 10 ft deep pulser pumps and they can pump at least 8 meters high!
Why not see how high you can airlift with a bamboo stick?
(but how do you put a hole up through the knots in the bamboo?) You would need a special drill. This video got over 12 000 views. Imagine YOUR video of a 4 ft high airlift bamboo! You will get a hundred thousand views!!!
GO GO GO! be a star.
gaiatechnician 2 years ago
Ahh pleabargain, this is the fun point of geyser pumps. Say you went out in the ocean and lowered a 20 ft geyser pump 1 mile down in the water, it would still be able to push that column of water up and out- according to what i've read. What I do know is though say you have a well 200 feet deep or 300 or 400! a geyser pump will run it.
valduare 2 years ago
biowerks, aquarium under-gravel filters use air-lift pumps. not geyser pumps. air lift explores lots of tiny bubbles to create a suction. Geyser pumps generate one large bubble that fills the entire cavity of the up-tube which creates great suction, even enough to pick up small rocks and shoot them out the top!
valduare 2 years ago
Its done in about a billion aquariums with undergravel filters every day.
biowerks 2 years ago
its siimplle just google air lift pump
animebsd 2 years ago
how is this thing work... explain to us... it is very interesting...
superasg3 3 years ago
can yo use it for a well??? how do yo u do it??
saacbe 3 years ago
Thank you for independently demonstrating the air lift principle and you did it very well and simply too!) I have waited years for this type of demonstration. So many people refuse to believe that it can be that simple.
Brian
gaiatechnician 3 years ago
Hey not bad, just a variation of the Pulser Pump demonstrated by gaiateechnician here on Youtube.
1foxtrot70 3 years ago