Brutkey

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

First test of the pump! Just turned the first pump on to make sure everything works. The regulator works! 100% power seems to draw about 160W. 50% was around 70W. Can't take a reliable picture of the display unfortunately.

I will have to cut the main wire and extend it with a good extension cord so it can reach where I need it to. At least to the little grey shed for now. The controller has to stay dry and in reasonable temperatures.

Not really looking forward to that job. I have cut/spliced/shrinkwrapped wire before but not on a $600 pump. 😬😬

Today though I will concentrate on hooking up the pipe to the filter to set up a circulation and figure out a temporary situation for the pump controller.

edit: btw the pumps are both Jecod 20,000L/hr varieties. I am hoping (and calculated) that they are oversized so I can run them at 50-75% most of the time.
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My hand is shading over a small controller box with a display reading P 7 with two numbers missing. There are up and down buttons. A small box with the picture of a pump sits on the corner of the pond. There is a small black wire leaning towards it. In the background is a small gray shed beside a flower garden.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

alright. emptied the pump bay (watering the hazelnut tree as I go) so I could get down into the box and loosely fit the hose onto the pump.

Now we'll turn the water back on in the filter and let the bay fill back up again from the little diversion stream.

I need to go get a couple big hoseclamps to properly secure it to the pump. But loose is fine for testing.

#poolpond #backyardProject #DIY #electronics

A small pump is on its side in the bottom of a black box. There is a black hose going to it. A trickle of water comes down some rubber liner into rocks in the edge of the bay. There are two large black hoses exiting on the opposite side.