I bought a Topsflo pump and just tried it out on a kettle with water I brought to near boiling (97F), ran it for an hour and at temp it pumped 2gal/min. Good enough for a whirlpool, I'm happy. I'd recommend buying from the link posted here, I gave a little less but have to use a battery charger and spent a few bucks for alligator clips.
The thing is completely quiet and primes easily, I positioned it about 18" below the kettle and put a ball valve on the outflow although for whirlpooling I'll be running it full out. Just ordered some cam lock QD's so I can switch it out for a drain hose, and use it for both of my kettles.
I was very tempted to just screw mine into the kettle valve too, wasn't sure it'd prime properly though. They recommend orienting it a foot under the kettle. I might give it a try when I get my QDs in, just putting it on a camlock and clipping it on/off the kettle.I connected it directly to the kettlevalve and pumped a boiling oxyclean solution for 20 minutes through it and it ran no problem. I'll actually be brewing with it this weekend and I will post my results via YouTube.
I was very tempted to just screw mine into the kettle valve too, wasn't sure it'd prime properly though. They recommend orienting it a foot under the kettle. I might give it a try when I get my QDs in, just putting it on a camlock and clipping it on/off the kettle.
Well I just ordered one. Kinda strange that they didn't provide any shipping info or tracking number... Also they just assumed my card address was the shipping address. That's fine for me but might screw someone. If the pump shows up I'll be thrilled. I do like to track my orders though..... Hope I didn't just get hosed!
Hey All, Have a look at our website again as we are listing to you and have changed the brass to SS fittings!
It's on the right hand side, they are taking pre-orders at same cost. Although they have an ETA of 5 wks.
March, Little Giant and Chugger aren't specifically designed for brewing either, they are just magnetically coupled high temp pumps with food-grade materials. Personally I think March 809 pumps are over priced (look closely at yours, simple motor and no high tech materials)and even if (or should I say when) they hit $200+ people will buy them.
Just my opinion but I can recommend the 12V solar pumps, I haven't had any trouble other than mounting them as they are intended to be plumbed inline with pipe. They are small and quiet.
I like the shaped impeller, I like that it is small enough to (easily) be mounted inline, and being DC driven you could use a PWM to drive this pump at different speeds. If I recently had not come into a march and a chugger, I would be looking very closely at these.
Note on tracking,
we are using paypal or our direct terminal for processing payments, when it is paypal we always list the tracking info with paypal, just log into your account to view tracking info, also we ship to the paypal address!
Orders we process manually without paypal we do verify address with credit card. Thanks.
Anyone have a video of this pumping wort? I"m still very interested...
I got mine in the mail yesterday and got cam locks on and a few other fittings, I'v run star San and boiling water threw with no issues. I did not buy a valve for the output side wanted to see flow rate and threw my 1/2" line it moves more than I expected and so quite. A few photos:
What are peoples thoughts on using these for a glycol pump for tap lines? Says they are brushless with 30000 hours of life. Temp protected, etc. Probably would work good. Not sure if it is worth the price for glycol. There are similar pumps on ebay for 22 and since I do not care about it being food safe, they might work fine.
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