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anyone tried using an airlift compared to a pump to move your water in your system

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i need to be able to lift water 4-6 feet head and im going to have to use a 22 L/min airpump

Sounds too high for an air lift. They typically only lift a few inches.

Sorry... not a chance... try 4-6 inches...

as they have said 4-6 feet.. not a chance..

I have raised water 12" but that is with 70l/min of air and I can't say what the final flow rate was..

4-6 inches will pump about 10,000-15,000 lt/min

Juergen

should read lt/hr

actually after some redesign to my planned system i would only need 1 foot of lift with a gallon or 2 per min of flow

ive managed to lift water 20 inches with a small aquarium airpump to test the theory but with a small flow rate ill try using finer bubbles once i get some more parts to test with

If you haven't been following the link earlier in the thread, there is talk of a stepped airlift. If you've got the parts lying around to tinker with, jump on the idea and let us know what you come up with.

ill see if i can try it if i can get the parts soon