How Do I Choose a Water Fountain Pump?
A water fountain pumps is the most important part that if doesn’t function can immediately spoil the entire beauty of your fountain. No matter what type of fountain you have a pump us responsible for carrying the water from the bottom reservoir all the way to the top and push it into the cascade.
However selecting the right kind of pump for your fountain can be a difficult task if you don’t know what to look for and it’s various specifications. SO here are some important specifications.
1) GPH – This value is called as “Gallons Per Hour”. This is simply the amount of water the pump can push in one hour. For a standard indoor fountain around 50-100 GPH pump is sufficient.
2) Max Head – This is a measuring unit for height in Feet. It simply says that a fountain pump with Max head of 3 can push the water above it’s height up to 3 feet. So the highest point of your fountain is 2.5 feet then it is advisable to use a fountain pump with max head as 3 because at the top the strength of water flow will definitely reduce that is why it is advisable to keep the max head value a little more than the highest point of water outlet in your fountain cascade.
Apart from these there are many more specifications for fountain pumps such as weather you want to use the fountain indoors as well as outdoors or just one of the above.
Also it is advisable to use a pump that will accept supply from a solar cell because then you will not need a direct supply of electricity from An AC adapter if you plan to invert in a solar cell later. The solar cell will convert direct sunlight in to electricity and run the fountain pump outdoor that will definitely save some electricity.
Thus choosing a water fountain pump is easy once you know it’s various easy to understand specification. Make sure you do some research online before you make any buying decision.
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