Thank you for doing what you do my man. I’m a driver for a well pump and water treatment supply warehouse. Over the last couple weeks I’ve been inspired to find out exactly what the stuff I’m delivering does and how it all comes together to make a well system, and you’re consistently putting out videos about everything I need to know. You’re inspiring me to go back to school and get my plumbing license. Thank you again

man this is so informative, youre the only one doing vids like this keep it up man love it

Best well water channel on YT

I was worried if this pump would work in one of my wells. Your video demonstrated the it should work fine at 40’ depth. I bought it, I dropped it down about 3 days ago and it works great. Your video saved me a lot money and had my well been deeper I would have passed on this pump. I have watched every one of H20 Mechanics videos, most of them more than once which means now I know just enough to be dangerous!

Thanks for spreading your knowledge. This is invaluable for homeowners

I think the biggest thing would be to have the likes an inverse psi chart on the website and box, which would help clarify that as the head increases, the available psi at that said height is reduced

The factory installed extension cord is a dead giveaway. 😂

@H2o Mechanic, I enjoy these test sessions and the explanations, looking forward to the next one!

I have a 2.5" 1/2 HP pump that has the same or very similar check valve, I haven't even tried it, just bought a good brass check valve and put it on. If I remember correctly even my Grundfos pump recommended using one External check valve for added safety. Mine produces practically the same pressure as that, but being 2.5" the flow is somewhat lower. I bought the 2.5" one because at that time I already had a 1 HP and 3" Grundfos and a 2 HP and 4" one from some Italian manufacturer that I can't remember right now installed in the well, I didn't want them touching the pipe (it's 8 inches internal diameter) or each other, so I chose the slimmer model available. In the end the 2HP produced much more flow than it needed and logically it also consumed more electricity, so I ended up removing it, originally it was supplying my grandpa's dairy farm but they retired in the early 90s. Now I have enough with the 1HP Grundfos to do some irrigation and the half HP to fill the cistern that supplies my home. I purchased the 0.5 HP pump because I installed a Cintropur NW500 filter housing with 10 micron filter element and with a lower flow rate it almost does not produce any pressure drop that would become an extra electricity expense. With the Grundfos it had 1.9 BAR of pressure drop with a brand new 10 micron filter element and almost 4 BAR when it got dirty... with the 0.5 HP even with a dirty filter element the pressure drop never reach 1 BAR. The filter housing came from factory with 50 or 60 micron filter elements and with those the 1HP Grundfos was fine, but I don't want any sand on the cistern because the output is about 2 cm over the bottom and it would be difficult to clean. As soon as the filter element gets superficially dirty the rest of the sand falls to the bottom of the bowl so I really only change the filter element every couple of months for hygiene reasons but it seems like it would take a year or more for it to clog... By the way the well is only 25 meters deep, the pumps are 20 meters from ground level and I have never seen the water level go lower than about 8 meters from ground level. Yesterday it was at 1.9 meters from ground level.

DO IT LOCAL!….. also make it a video when you do it. A lot of people out there need help and it is nice to see someone willing to help. I’ve watched other channels on KZread start charities to pay for services to those in need, if you ever do that I got the 1st $100 to ya.

@ChristopherACorn

Жыл бұрын

There are a lot of us out here that are very happy to pitch in and help this along.

I read, in "before you construct a water well" brochure from the Nova Scotia Government "Pumps that lift water by suction from depths of 7.6 m (25 ft) or less are called shallow well pumps. Pumps that lift water from greater depths are called deep well pumps. " deep just means atmospheric suction limits

Another great info video. Thanks!

Great demonstration and explanation. Appreciate the testing.

Just sent a 3 HP Vevor down the well after one heck of a fight getting the old, dead pump up and replaced. Your videos helped for sure. The pump has been great so far

@foox2k

2 ай бұрын

Hello friend hows the pump performing?, im thinking in getting one of these for myself

@tyyelvington2923

2 ай бұрын

@foox2k Died within a month, most likely due to not being protected from the shock of starting and too much power for the flow rate. Do more homework than i did, and you may be okay. Paid a well service later (big $$) to replace with a high end pump. My well is 440 feet deep, so ymmv

@foox2k

Ай бұрын

@@tyyelvington2923 sorry to ear that brother, i'm gonna keep researching

I have watched at least 20 of yoru videos and have gotten a real education on wells. Thank you for taking the time to share your excellent knowledge and experience.

thanks for the overview , very useful for all of us ....,

This is very good information I have watched many of your videos and learned so much please keep going there are many of us that need and can use this information if only to be able to work on our own wells as i do.

More videos like this! This is awesome. Do some videos where you test out the different pumps etc

Where I live in Calif. We have to have water for the fire department so my well pump Is at 225' and fills my 5000 gal. Tank we have a separate pressure pump to supply our bladder tank

This is great knowledge for the general population! Read and educate yourself before you buy! Respect

Man this is crazy! Your vids are awesome. Small farmer in Alabama and I swear my phone listens to what I say. I was looking for a well pump for a 35’ well to a a cattle trough with a float valve today and I get on YT and you are explaining just what I need. I will look it up on Lowe’s website, thanks

ah, this explains why amazon has soo many cheap well pumps at 1, 2, 3 hp! some are called solar pumps..

nice review. it is glad that there was no false advertising. just a very limited use case.

Very educational, thank you! Always love your video!

... It may not be false advertisement, but it is deceptive... Great videos..!

Another quality video. I've been wanting to get one of these less expensive pumps ever since my above ground pump went out. I live in coastal Georgia and our shallow wells are typically around 40' - 60' deep so these pumps are just perfect for running an irrigation system.

Great channel and video!

I hope the pump goes to a good home! Thanks!

I bought one, it didn't have enough power to overcome the head pressure and bladder tank. My well was less than 50'.I noticed the water tank also.I sent it back

Great job enjoying all ur videos

This is perfect for tractor water filling station. Since it is open ended application, it does not (eventualy) need check valve so the installed one is probably ok. Guessing it is there just to keep waiting for the water at minimum. Thank You for nice and educational videos. Best Regards

@chazlewis900

5 ай бұрын

In normal system if your check valve is bad it will bleed back when the pump shuts off then drops pressure and cause pump to run more

Excellent explanation Thanks

I need this pump sir! 😎 Been living here for two years with a broken jet pump system!

Great video...... great info all around.

I like this demonstration, I have needs on my farm for shallow volume pumping for pumping up to a storage tank(s) from pond, shallow wells etc. Never thought of using a submersible but since they have this type may try it.

@mikeclarke3005

8 ай бұрын

and hey at that price yeah going to try it

That pump would work great in my rain catchment system

VERY EDUCATIONAL!

Last time I got a pump at Lowes it didn't work took it back got another pump and it quit working 2 days later so I had to go to one of our suppliers and get a real pump

Your Smart!

Wow, well made test.

Great video! I was one of the ones that messaged you. Well has static level of 63 and pump is at 85 feet. I had this same one and it did not cut off the 30/50 switch like you said. I ended up swapping it out for a Vevor 1hp 28gpm to see what happens and it works just fine shutting off the 30/50 switch. It gets about 10gpm.

@Stankpitshentai

Ай бұрын

how long did the pump last?

Thanks so much for this! I mentioned on your previous pump review, but I recently installed the 1/2 HP (but 110V) Vevor pump in my well. I just put a pressure gauge on mine after watching your previous video and I think I have better results than the 230V one somehow! The pump is at about 58' down but I still have 70 PSI at the top of the well when water flow is turned completely off.

@JonathanMotes

Жыл бұрын

@h2omechanic do you think it's possible that the pump has some sort of current regulator so it tries to increase power as water flow decreases? With my limited knowledge, I expected the current to fall more than it did when the output was limited. I wouldn't expect a cheap pump like this to have that kind of functionality, but it could explain why I still have 70 PSI at the top of my well.

I have the perfect application for a pump like that to irrigate from a lake 😊

Wanted to make a few comments to your videos. 1) I think these videos are very helpful for many viewers since not everyone is an engineer. Kudos for spending the time and posting them. 2) The cheapest Lowe's pump in my area (CA, silicon valley, water is at a premium) at Lowe's was $498 + tax. 3) The description of the pumps gives a usable well depth, so the customer would be able to calculate if the pump was suitable by doing the math like you did in the video. Otherwise, I saw in the comments an 800 phone number and they customer service would be able to calculate and recommend a suitable pump (don't think the average sales clerk at Lowe's would be, my experience). 4) From my own experience with a 30m deep well on my parent's property since around 1960 I can tell that there frequently is a lot of sediment in the well which will grind up the pump and severely shorten it's lifespan. One pump actually locked up and overheated after only a few weeks so the fuse would trip. IIRC the current pump is 20 years old now but only used for watering the garden, otherwise they have city water (safe + sanitary) for the house and drinking.

very good demo, i do know someone needing a pump, been carry water in drums for animals in a pickup 3 times a week. uug.

Great explanation. I love the rest rig. You could start doing head to head real life pump tests like project farm.

@h2omechanic

Жыл бұрын

I love me some Project farm videos! I plan on test Alot of different pumps!

Great job

Great explanation! Basically, this pump should only be used when pumping into a cistern/storage tank...just as the drawing shows. Then use a "jet pump" to pressurize a bladder tank. Maybe OK for a DIY but not cost effective when the customer has to pay labor rates

Helpful information.

This video should drive home the point to read the capabilities of whatever you are looking for to make sure it will do what you need. If those people that had problems had read the instructions or before buying the pump looked up the specifications they would have known that this is not the kind of pump they needed. I have multiple wells depths from 1000 feet on my ranch to 250 feet on others. I hired a well specialist like you to determine what was needed from the well drilling, casing pump, piping and all the other components to make it work as needed. Moral to the story is get an expert to do things like this that you don't know enough about. Maybe in China their wells are 50 feet deep and they consider that deep. Who knows? Very good information!

So glad I found this video. I bought this pump to pump from a well to a storage tank about 100' above the well. Pump would be set 90' down the well. I doubted its capabilities to do what I need and decided to use it to pump from that storage tank up the hill to another tank where I will have enough elevation to use gravity to feed the house. This pump is capable of pumping from tank 1 to tank 2 about 100' farther up the hill. Your video proved without a doubt that 1) this pump would not work in the well and 2) it will work tank-to-tank. Thanks Brother!

@johnoswald6192

11 ай бұрын

It also confirmed it doesn't need an external control box and is basically a 2-wire pump. I bought it on Amazon and it said it is a 3-wire pump. Asked a question on Amazon - does it need a control box and is it 2 hots and a ground? - No answer. Now I know. 👍👍👍

Great content! Love learning about this stuff. Do you have a good video on putting down the well casing and doing the gravel work at the bottom of it with the well screen and all?

Vevor just came out of no where... Never heard of them a year ago, now they make everything from well pumps to power tools to fog machines, to jigs, to welding equipemnt, to everything.... Just seems to be a jack of all trades company, jack out a ton of items from chinese factories that produce other products and slap their name on it.

Could you point me to a video that shows hooking up a pressure tank to a submersible and then to the supply line. PS, I really enjoy your videos.

Thanks for this.. the review was fair and unbiased.... It's always tempting when reviewing a "cheap" pump to really bash it, but when factoring the value for the money, those wouldn't really be fair criticisms... The pump is what it is, a good value budget pump for those who are cash strapped up front... It may not be as efficient as some of the more expensive high end pumps, and it may be that you have to size up the HP to get the performance you need, which could end up costing you more in the long run, especially when service life is accounted for, but it will at least do what you need it to.... It's one of those cases of pay now or pay later.... but at the price, that pay later is going to take a LONG time to catch up with you..... For those of us stuck in the pay later category, It's a "quality" pump from a company that is honest about the performance, and seems to be paying attention to their customer feedback improved packaging over last years pump, now includes the start up capacitor as opposed to needing a control box, changed to a stainless outlet over the previous brass, etc. Will it last as long as a 1200 dollar Grundfos? almost certainly, no. Will it be as efficient?? absolutely not. But all things considered, this is a good value for the money, and going with it or a $1200 Grundfos really comes down to where your priorities lie.

You could explain cavitation like spinning tires in a car.

A good illustration of Bernoulli principle pressure is resistance to flow

Presumably would work well in an aeration tank in the south. Love the videos sir.

@h2omechanic

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe it's fine for a cistern or as a transfer pump. Or irrigation out of a pond.

*All* Chinese sellers (VEVOR is just an importer and seller, one big enough to get all products labeled with their brand but they don't make anything) call all kinds of submersible pumps "submersible deep well pump" and/or "submersible borehole pump" It's likely a translation problem, since most sellers (including VEVOR) won't know anything about installing deep well pumps, unless by chance they hire someone who has worked as a plumber as a translator ;-) If you contact customer support they may take a look to the user manual (because they know a lot of buyers never read them) or maybe google for some more information but never expect them to know how every product they sell actually works because they're selling literally thousands of unrelated products and nobody can have so much knowledge.

So it sounds like this might be a great pump to use for my pond irrigation pumps since it'll pump 25 gal

Perfectly fine for the intended purpose of filling a cistern from a well up to 150 ft deep . Cheap

Your our go to for well pump information. So this pump will work well for a 100 foot well with water down 70' pumped into an open tank? Thanks for the great information ✌️

Great video, yep, if you're at 50 foot well depth, you need 25psi to get to the top of the casing, so 40psi gets you 65. just don't go much deeper!

The less flow the lower your amp draw will be. If you close the valve completely it’ll drop even more. The pump isn’t doing any work. That’s why you start big centrifugal pumps with the discharge valve closed, to reduce the startup amps

Just a note: while you use that meter to measure amps, it’s actually pronounced “AM-METER”, and spelled ammeter. Not an amp meter. Keep up the great content!

what Vevor pump would you recommend for a 350 or 400 ft well ? you are a life saver with your video content. Thank you

They should rate those pumps by max pressure instead of just GPM

Could really use it

Just found your channel and am really enjoying the content. If I had a cistern that also collects rainwater so that the deep well pump didn't run as much as a regular well? Is there any drawbacks for a deep well pump not running within normal parameters?

I've gotten the 2hp vevor pump getting ready to install it would like to see U test out the 1 , 1 1/2, 2 Hp pumps , You can always sell them off as pre tested out afterword's to get your $$$ back and still do a video on them..

Hey ive noticed multiple times that in there the pump is conencted to the grid by a breaker only, Here usually we have some control board to check the water level and turn off the pump if the water drops too low. It usually works by the means of some electrodes. Is that a thing in the us? Cheers mate great videos!!!!!!

@tomgroenbeck7620

Жыл бұрын

I think he mentioned in one of the videos that these things are built into the pump these days (maybe not all pumps?).

Some pumps lower amperage when restricted due to the fact they are doing less work moving water when restricted.

Hey you do an Awesome job doing videos on all things. I am from Canada and I have a sand point and a 3/4 horse pump. It has a 30/50 switch. I checked the air pressure in the tank and it was 52 so I put it down to 28. That's what the plumber put in 10 years ago.Was I right putting it down to 28.

Awesome educational video. I need this pump I’m from Puerto Rico for my cistern system in apartment. Can this work good with pressure tank and water heater systems?

I hope that brand last longer than the one I brought for my RV that had the same name. I had it for 3 days be it locked up .

im late but i need that pump.. im 48 ft deep and 12 ft water above that .. sooo . 30- 50 switch im be able use this !

if you for imstance begin with 1 1/4 inch you put a 1 inch after 20.feet your pump brings more water its like you pump water to a 4 storys building

Sounds like that pump is designed for a specific application and people are putting in an applications that it was not designed for and there's nothing wrong with that pump. It's just that you need to find a pump that's specific to your situation. Sounds like this pump is a good for storage based systems for you. Do the pressurization after the storage of the water and seems like it works fine for that. But if you're going directly to a pressurized system, it looks like this pump is not good for that for deep well that is

Great content, love it! I'm wondering if you could help. I have a 1000ft well with a static water level of 200 ft. It produces 3/4 gpm. I live in the mountains of western North Carolina and would like to use as much water storage as reasonably possible with my 1000 ft well. Could you recommend a depth and pump size for my 3 bedroom mountain home? Once

Most pressure switches are adjustable.

Our local Community Hall has a drilled well with a static level of just twelve feet. This pump would definitely get the job done, and satisfy the pressure switch. However, that's something of a special case; my well at home has a static level of 110 feet, and it takes quite a bit of horsepower just to get the water to the surface. I still need an additional 60 psi to satisfy the pressure switch. Half a horsepower just can't do it.

@riccardoz2953

Жыл бұрын

Then consider to fill a reservoire and use another pump or better an autoclave to meet pressure requirement

Good pump to water animals are ur garden I bet

This explanation about pump head and how it affect pressure was spot on. Exactly what i was thinking before you got to the effect on pressure in your explanation I have a well that is 82’ with 72 ft of casing. It picks up a lot of sediment. Any ideas about how to fix that problem

@AndyFletcherX31

5 сағат бұрын

How about a pressurised settling tank in the line from the pump to your filters/bladder? Periodically clean out the bottom of it. This does assume the sediment is course enough to settle out over a reasonably short period.

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Can you do this with their 2 hp well pump?

I have water storage tanks. Wondering, will bypassing the bladder tank and wiring in a float switched on the submersible well pump increase the pumps longevity?

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Great review. Unrelated question: I discovered I have a pitless adapter. How long do the O-rings last before needing replaced? Is there a standard size O-ring for these? My well was installed in 2016.

@h2omechanic

Жыл бұрын

A few different manufacturers all use different sizes. Any auto parts store will have one if you ever replaced yours. I think 20 years is the life of a oring

Most of the wells used for lawn irrigations systems in this area are about 30' depth. Is this pump suitable for these shallow wells?

yeah at 18 awg I would cut back to a shorter length and splice not sure why they had such a long lead wire ? did not realize Vevor was sold through Lowes, but Vevor usually sales stuff rebranded so wonder who actually manuf's that, most their stuff is China. Have bought many different things from Vevor Ice machines to pop corn machines to tools ?

That pump could pump into a tank and then pump from the tank with a shallow well pump.

I'm in NE Ohio and our water table where I'm at, near a river, is about 10-12'. If I were to dig a well for one of these pumps, what depth below the water table should I go? The plan is to use it to possibly help keep a bass pond water level up once we put it in.

Any chance you could get the locked rotor amps? I’m looking for a cheap and temporary well pump to fill water tanks at the well head. I run everything on solar. Need water until I save up for a high pressure solar friendly pump. I have to pump 230 ft uphill from the well head so it’s not easy.

Have you tested their 2hp pump?

Question what is your opinion on hallmark deep well pumps?

@h2omechanic

Жыл бұрын

I tested 2 Hallmark pumps I a older Vid on my channel. Both were similar to this one. The 3" Hallmark pump did better than the 4" model

Nice review I don’t need it.

What if your static water level never goes below say 50’ but the pump is down at 100’ would it still satisfy the 30-50 pressure switch? Just wondering?

I live on a riverbank that is a 95 foot drop to the water: nearly vertical. I bought this pump to put in the river to fill a cistern. Should I get a more powerful pump and just use the 1/2 horsepower for the cistern. I assumed this pump would work based on the 160 ft head, but perhaps not.

@h2omechanic - 340 foot 6" well, static water level of 70ft, pump hung at 320feet. Well can produce 10GPM, so I want a pump that is capable of at least 10GPM. I have a 3-wire Franklin Subdrive VFD instead of a cutoff switch and would like to keep using that device. Can you make a recommendation on a brand and 3-wire model pump?

I ordered one of these 1hp it says it's good for 207ft mine is 165ft down and I can't get my pressure no higher than 33psi and it's pulling 5.7 amps when running. Is the pump my problem why I can't get it higher