Water Storage Backup System - Tips

[bwana]

No stress. Show us some pics.

Not much to see. Just two tanks joined at the bottom with a T junction which runs to the pump and a 20m hose pipe connected to an outside tap which feeds the house. There's a valve on the tap so I can either feed the house or just the laundry room along with a oneway valve.

 

[rh1]

Very busy indeed. Will have to redo it some time and plan it out nicely.

Dont worry I been there, my irrigation system is in its third form at the moment.

Will be in its fourth form, but that is because I am going to relocate everything.

 

[marhsava]

Not much to see. Just two tanks joined at the bottom with a T junction which runs to the pump and a 20m hose pipe connected to an outside tap which feeds the house. There's a valve on the tap so I can either feed the house or just the laundry room along with a oneway valve.

Wait, what .. So like a sucide cable?

 

[bwana]

Wait, what .. So like a sucide cable?

In what way?

 

[Sinbad]

In what way?

backfeeding through the tap.

 

[bwana]

backfeeding through the tap.

Ah -well, you need to [back] feed it in somehow and using an existing tap makes sense.

Backfeeding a generator is also inherently dangerous.

EDIT - when the valve to the house is closed the rainwater is used exclusively for the washing machine, which itself exclusively uses rainwater...

 

[W@P]

I have come to realize an issue with my new setup. My pump has a cut-in pressure of 1.5 bar. If pressure drops below that the pump starts. Now it seems that with the extra tank connected to my 1000L tank my baseline or standing water pressure with both tanks is above 1.5 bar and the pump won't start.

It is an Ingco pump. I have tried the reset button but it does not seem to do anything. Google also not very helpful. I will isolate the extra tank so my setup is back the way it was and see if everything returns to normal. If that is the case then I must find a way to adjust the pump so it starts at whatever my base pressure is.