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Anyone have suggestions for a water pressure system/pump that can help me create water pressure into my cabin?   Because of the water catchment, I don't have much gravity flow.  

Would love to have some sort of low power /solar power solution.
 
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I've used RV/marine 12V and 24V pumps, shurflo and such. Works fine if you aren't asking for a long distance or high flow.

They aren't really meant for exposure to the elements, and you certainly don't want them to freeze, if that is a thing where you are.
 
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D Nikolls wrote:I've used RV/marine 12V and 24V pumps, shurflo and such. Works fine if you aren't asking for a long distance or high flow.

They aren't really meant for exposure to the elements, and you certainly don't want them to freeze, if that is a thing where you are.




I use this pump for my midst irrigation, works like a champ.
 
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I'm on catchment and use a Shur-flo dc pump. It gets its power from solar charged batteries. While my own solar system powers my house, you could set up a minimal simple system, nothing fancy.

At one time I used a similar pump down in my greenhouse. I had two batteries, a simple charge controller so that the batteries wouldn't fry on a sunny day, a small solar panel. I hooked the pump up to the batteries via heavy duty alligator type clips (bought the wire & clips already assembled from Walmart) which I had wired to the pump. No on-off switch. I just clipped in the alligator clips anytime I wanted to water the plants. Couldn't get much more simple. Just had to be smart enough to be careful so that I didn't fry myself. Not much different than hooking up a new car battery.

They sell pump kits for exactly what you are looking for. I've seen them in my local solar store.

Perhaps you should check out pump systems sold for small boats or RVs.
 
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