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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Go on June 26, 2018, 02:12:19 pm

Title: Super Pumped
Post by: Go on June 26, 2018, 02:12:19 pm

Hi, what pump do you guys use to fill multiple vehicles each day?
What’s a realistic flow rate from a single phase pump? 80l per min?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Super Pumped
Post by: Spruce on June 26, 2018, 06:51:21 pm

Quote from: Go on June 26, 2018, 02:12:19 pm

Hi, what pump do you guys use to fill multiple vehicles each day?
What’s a realistic flow rate from a single phase pump? 80l per min?

Thanks.

Transfer hose diameter, length and water temperature will change flow rates considerably, even from the same pump.

My Clarke SPE800 fromMachineMart says it delivers 53lpm. If I add a second length of 1" diameter hose to my existing hose length then delivery to the van is noticeably less.

Another cleaner uses a submersible pump with a shorter length of hose and he says his pump fills his van faster. It could well be as my transfer pump has to suck water as well as pumping it, where a submersible pump is in the water at the bottom of the tank.

Title: Re: Super Pumped
Post by: STEVE-UK on June 26, 2018, 07:00:00 pm

Clarke CSE2, 250 litres per minute, https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/cse2-11-4in-submersible-water-pump/

Fitted with 10 metres of 1 inch hose, flow rate is actually around 150LPM

Title: Re: Super Pumped
Post by: Go on June 26, 2018, 08:19:37 pm

Ace. What sort of height are you pumping out of? An IBC, or a larger higher vessel? Like a 5000 litre tank?

Thanks.