I need posts, delivered, for water tower

[mguthrie]

No, there is a function on the inverter/charger called diversion. Once you batteries are charged, excess voltage is sent to something else, lights, or even a heating element for stock tanks.

I've never messed with inverters. If you know what your doing it should be easy peasy. D/C pump with a 300 gallon tank is the way to go. I wouldn't mess with a water tower

 

[Capt Quirk]

Pallet rack. Not pallets. They're steel and engineered to withstand 5000lbs plus per shelf. Ibc totes filled with liquid are nothing for it

Ah, gotcha.

 

[Jim Baker]

Pallet rack. Not pallets. They're steel and engineered to withstand 5000lbs plus per shelf. Ibc totes filled with liquid are nothing for it

Built a couple of deer stands from pallet racks. They were just sitting on the ground. Had to cable them off on the narrow side.

It is a good idea for the water tower and you can buy used ones fairly cheap. However, I think you would need to pour some concrete piers to anchor them to. You would also need two sets of beams spaced out for lateral strength. Still might have to cable them off to ground anchors or tree trunks.

IBC containers are relatively light, about 125 to 135 pounds each. YOu could plumb a couple together using banjo connectors. That would give you 550 gallons of water.

 

[Capt Quirk]

Most of the water needs are at about 3' or less. Sinks, spickets, eventually flushing toilets. But, the water needs to be spread out over almost 2 acres. Gravity is free, and requires no assistance. I can get by with little pressure.

 

[crackerdave]

You could paint one tank flat black for hot water.
Those plastic tanks in a cage would be light to lift up on the tower...empty,of course.

 

[buckmanmike]

If you produce excess power with your own solar system, the EMC has to buy it. Its federal regulation. The price they pay is below thier wholesale rate, so probably not a factor in considering a solar system.

 

[Capt Quirk]

If you produce excess power with your own solar system, the EMC has to buy it. Its federal regulation. The price they pay is below thier wholesale rate, so probably not a factor in considering a solar system.

This was 10 years ago, that would put them 20 years behind the rest of the real world. I asked the well guy about solar pumps, about 7 years ago. His exact response was, " I don't know nothing about no solar."

 

[livinoutdoors]

This was 10 years ago, that would put them 20 years behind the rest of the real world. I asked the well guy about solar pumps, about 7 years ago. His exact response was, " I don't know nothing about no solar."

Things have changed, good cheaper solar stuff is easier to get now. You could just have a ground level tank and a small solar powered pump for much less work than a raised water tower.

 

[Dbender]

I would just put my large tank on the ground. Id then put multiple smaller 35 gallon raised tanks at each fixture. Use solar to pump each smaller reservoir full when sun is out then can use at night or cloudy days and recharge smaller tanks as needed.

 

[Capt Quirk]

I'd rather have to only fill one tank, and not mess with batteries or pumps.

 

[Oldstick]

To me it sounds like a pretty complicated and expensive undertaking, if you are talking about a lot of long runs over a couple acres. To minimize the amount of flow restriction/loss over the longer runs, I agree with what someone above said. You are going to have to use the largest diameter pipes you can get away with cost-wise and practicality/logistics wise for the long runs. Then taps to reduce down in size at each user location to connect to each fixture

And probably multiple runs of said pipe off of the tank, each in a specific direction would be better than a single feed running all around the large area.

 

[Capt Quirk]

Already have pipe run to the garden, that was done when we still used a barrel and 12v pump. But, that wasn't ideal. Just going to lay pipe to new structures, the kennel, and join it at the tower.