Monday, 7 April 2008

Flow flow, quick quick flow.

Still thinking about the roof mounted water thingy

Ok so a windscreen wiper pump pushes out 100mL - 150mL per minute which is nice but perhaps not really what we want, where as the ebay caravan pump squeezes out 10Litres per minute. That's more like it I believe :). The pump drops directly into barrel or tank and requires 12v at about 3amps.

If the barrel is 20 Litre then it will empty in about 2 minutes, so perhaps I need a bigger drum :P , min of 30 Litres I guess ! The pipe looks to be a 12mm regular hose pipe (to some sort of reducing valve to get the pressure up I guess and splitter to get the separate flows).

The delivery system and the trigger still need sorting out but I think it's going in the right direction. Also the swivel needs inspection ...

2 comments:

... said...

Perhaps you could try this: Water Mortar

From Tim (Brad's partner, not in gay sense, you understand)

greg said...

Hi Tim, looks cool, neeeeed one. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paladone-Summer-Fun-Water-Mortar/dp/B000PCXDJS
cheaper here too !