LooyvilleLarry

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Conpewter -
In celebration of your first anniversary on HBT, I challenge you to a report on the viability of this pump !!!!!

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Um check is in the mail?...

So yeah haven't brewed in months, it is very sad. I am in the process of putting together a brewing system in my basement but I'm running low on reserves (well I have one keg of pale ale that I really don't like, but can't yet bear to dump, not bad.. just not good).

Anyway I plan to brew in the next couple weeks, I'll be using the pump, just need to get the fittings for it. Will probably just be pieced together out in my garage, so any priming issues I have won't be useful data.

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Primary: Nothin
Secondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead
Kegged: Crappy infected mild
Bottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash

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Alright with my current testing I would not buy this pump. It is made to circulate water to get hot water to a far location of the house. Currently I can't seem to get it to run for more than a couple minutes before it shuts itself off.

It would be much simpler to save up some money and get a proper march pump. I also need to get some better tubing, the silicone tubing I have is too thin walled so it will suck closed, but that is a different problem.

I was able to throttle down the output just fine without it having any issues I could find (this is with room temp water) but the fact that whatever I do it turns itself off is making this a very bad buy

EDIT:

I think this pump will be workable. I have connected the two wires that came from the gray sheathing and left everything else connected, that has the pump continually pumping (not turning itself off) now I'll just use an extension cord with a switch (probably light switch mounted in a box) to turn the pump on and off. I'll be trying to do more testing tomorrow during a brew.

EDIT of Edit:

Ok so I connected the gray sheathed wires permanently and then was able to use the white sheathed wires (originally connected to the solid state temperature sensor) and hooked those to the switch, that allowed me to turn it on and off with the control wiring instead of shutting the power itself on and off. So I think this is workable but I'll have more information tomorrow.

__________________
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." - V

Primary: Nothin
Secondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead
Kegged: Crappy infected mild
Bottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash

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This pump will be workable, but I wouldn't buy it again.

For some reason I have to actually suck on the output hose to get it to prime, this is with it well below the level of my HLT.

Edit: I think the reason is that these pumps are expected to be used in a pressurized system instead of gravity prime

__________________
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." - V

Primary: Nothin
Secondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead
Kegged: Crappy infected mild
Bottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash