Ram Pump Siphon for more lift Potential Take 2

welcome to land to house i'm seth this is a ram pump it's a water pump that requires no fuel or electricity to operate only flowing falling water i do a lot of tests with these and i've got one that's kind of fun what happens if you have a ram pump with a drive pipe that siphons up and over out of the source i actually tested this before and we had some really mixed results so i want to do this again with maybe a little bit better testing ground so here's what i've got a half inch ram pump with 40 foot of drive pipe and it is right at three feet of head pressure so the bucket here has a foot of hydrostatic pressure and then about two feet of drop after that and there is a float valve in the bucket so it will always keep this bucket at a consistent water level so the water will come down here first in the first test snake along here and it will activate the waste valve and we will go up top where i've got this garden hose and take a measurement of flow basically see how much time it takes to get about a cup and a half so turn that on and it will start cycling i've already got everything primed up and ready to go for this initial test so let's go up here real quick and i'll show you the height here i haven't measured it it's about eight foot or so maybe nine foot above the pump and it's just a garden hose and here is the output so let's go ahead and start a timer and see how long it takes to fill a cup and a half okay i want this test to be as consistent as possible so i'm going to lift the hose up wait for it to start flowing again and then i just set it over in here all right there's the full flow rate you ready 52 seconds is our time okay everything's the same except for there's now a gravity chair with this much more lift above here so if i were to get down on this level with the bucket about right there you can see this is up at least a foot more than the bucket so the concept is what happens if water comes out of the bucket goes up here and then siphons down more head pressure than was originally there so we'll see if now we get a higher flow rate up in our container or not now there's probably going to be some loss because of bounce in here and i might be able to put something on this pipe to keep that from happening but let's go ahead and turn this on and see if it will run certainly running let's look at our balance situation definitely some movement in there all right let's go up here and see if there's a difference okay let me restart my watch here lift this back up to the point where it's going to flow so 52 seconds is the time to beat all right ready yeah 51 seconds okay that's actually the results i was anticipating the last time we ran this test and what happened in that test was there was a crack in one of the components and i think it was letting out pressure and whenever i did the second test it was without that piece and so we had more pressure so basically the amount of drop you have is still from the bucket all of this right here has the water has to climb up and it loses potential and then it goes back down and gains it until it's net zero pretty much back to the pump so i hope i'm saying all that correct but basically the test that we ran before was just a fluke the flow rate here seems to be the same and there may be some loss even in all of this bounce but i think it's going to be minimal considering we had the exact same time for the same volume of water pumped anyway if you have some fun ram pump tests kind of like this one write those in the comments down below i would love to look at those and possibly set up a test like this and answer those questions for you alright thanks for watching and i will see you in the next video bye

Channel: Land to House

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Keywords: land to house, land two house, ram pump, siphon start, increase head pressure, hydraulic ram pump

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Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021