Ronnys LTD
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2025
Good purchase.
Versius
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2021
After our well casing shifted due to an earthquake, I was unable to pull the old well pump from our 268ft water well and there is still a significant amount of old pvc pipe and the moved casing keeping me from getting another pump in. Our water level in the well comes up to about 90ft below ground though and I can get a pump down to right at 110. Unfortunately, with a regular well pump, I would quickly run dry. I ran off a homemade airlift pump for about a year, but it was a pain keeping an air compressor running and it was very finicky. So, I decided to try one of these and it works pretty well. The way my system is set up is this pump, 1/2" PEX (use a radiator clamp on the connection to the pump and you will need a heat gun to soften the pex enough to go over the nipple) and a 12 guage outdoor rated extension cord with the ends cut off for wire. I then added a poly rope for when Im pulling it and I used electric tape to tape the wire, pex and rope together every foot or so to make it easy to run in and pull. After several failures where water would get in and corrode the electrical splices between the pump wires and the extension cord, I now seal that with Flexseal tape and it stays dry (huge difference). Before, I was using thr heat shrink well wire kits and they would corrode and fail every few months. I power the pump with 24V 360W 15A LED light power supplies. These take something like 2 minutes to change out and usually last a year or 2 and cost less than 20.00 each here on Amazon. I pump into a 2100 gallon polypropylene tank and it will fill that in about a day if its completely empty.I then use a shallow well pump to pressurize my pressure tank and have water for both of the houses and livestock.In this application, a good pump will last about 2 or 3 years before the brushes wear out and it only takes about an hour to pull, replace the pump, drop it back in the hole and be back to pumping again. I say good pump because out of the 5 of these that I have purchased over several years, 2 of them failed within an hour of going in the hole and the problem with both was failed seals that allowed water into the motor. 2 of the other 3 lasted for years each and just had no brushes left when I disassembled them and I just put in a new one today.Because of the quality hit and miss, I highly recommend the extended 4 year warranty that is offered (I usually don't buy extended warranties). I have successfully repaired the ones that failed, but it honestly isn't worth the time for something this cheap. I have no idea about the seller's warranty because I needed the pumps to run immediately, so I repaired them myself and this would have voided any warranty anyway.Hope this info helps.
Christopher E
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2019
I haven't had this pump long, but I've pumped something like 1000 gallons so far. I've been pumping from about 90' down a well, using a 100 wall solar panel, direct wired, no regulator or anything else.I started by laying out 1/2" water distribution (flex) pipe, armored cable, and a poly rope, each 150' long. I used small zip-ties to hold the three together, the ties spaced about ever 8'. I then connected each of those things to the pump, and lowered it down the well. I accidentally pumped from the very bottom initially so got cloudy water (powdered stone that had been drilled through), so I raised it to about 90' to get to clear water. The powdered stone didn't seem to do the pump any harm.With the panel aimed correctly and with full sun, I'm getting something like 1 GPM or a bit more. When clouds pass in front of the sun the pump stops, starting again automatically as the cloud passes. I filled a 275 gallon and a 250 gallon tank, but I also used ran water through an additional 300' of 1/2" distribution line without problems, although that was on level ground or downhill.My tips: when you lower the pump, pipe, rope and cable as I did, the weight becomes substantial. Be sure you've got something to secure the rope to when you get to the desired depth. Consider putting a few knotted loops in the rope at the approximate locations you'll want to tie to as you're laying everything out; that makes it easier to control things as you proceed. I simply put a large screwdriver through a loop and then across the top of the wellhead to hold the pump at the depth I wanted. Regarding connections in the cable, if you haven't made them before, practice making those connections in advance, using the correctly sized clips. It took me a few tries to get proficient, and best to get proficient in advance of the field work.If it's not obvious from the above, I've never done anything like this before, but it really couldn't have been easier, and I'm happy with the pump. For the price I can accept a limited life span, if it turns out that way, but it does seem to be well made so I'm not expecting it to quit soon.
David Hannes
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2019
We purchased one of these last year, and it worked quite well at a gallon per minute flow. It only worked for roughly 5 months, but it worked until it didn't Bought another one recently, and first there was a major screw up on the shipping, but that was no fault of the seller. Then we installed it, and while it works, it barely works. If it's putting out 1/4 of a gallon per minute that would be generous.So, now, since our well is on solar and if we want water, we simply must buy a pump, we are buying the stainless steel version of pump by the same seller, that worked for us for just short of a year. It had a higher rate of flow than the first Orange version we purchased. Putting out approximately 1 1/2 gallons per minute.While the second pump, which I am reviewing here, works, it is not meeting the set forth specs, nor is it meeting our needs. We could NOT buy any additional warranty as I tried to do. So, at this juncture, I have to recommend that if you need a pump that really works near the presented specs, don't buy this one.I can't even write the seller an email. Pretty disappointed.