Hand-Operated; for Backup or as Your Primary Pump
We all know power outages are inconvenient. But they do more than shut off the TV and lights. If you're on an electrical well system, a power outage cuts off your water supply too.
That's when many turn to manual water pumps...
Simple Pump™ is a hand water pump that works as a reliable backup right beside your existing submersible well pump. It fits in the smallest well casings, making acquiring it for backup a low-cost proposition. So you can still drink clean water, take showers, and flush toilets — without electricity.
Simple Pump delivers up to 5 gallons per minute. With a check valve, you can pump right into your pressurized household plumbing system. A check valve is a common type of valve that allows fluids to flow in one direction but closes automatically to block any back pressure. (More information on how to pump into pressure, here.)
Some customers write us saying that they have measured water pressures of 100 psi from our hand pump, so pumping at pressure for the typical home system of around 50 psi is a breeze.
It works just as effectively in shallow and deep wells. Of course, the lower the water level in a well, the greater the force required to pump it. We can’t change the laws of physics, but we have made Simple Pump easier to pump than any comparable hand pump, at a given depth. (You can see a table of actual effort needed, here.)
With such strong water flow, you can use Simple Pump as a primary water pump system for non-electrical wells too.
Motorized Simple Pump
The super-efficient, 12v DC Simple Pump can run off A SINGLE SOLAR PANEL (or other DC sources). For off-grid home and vacation properties, read more about our motorized pump, and about using it with solar.
Those Links, again
Pumping into pressure • Table of pumping effort • Hand pump • Motorized pump • Using the motor with solar
