Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Right now i am very sleepy and the sun is comeing up now but i got this ideay i dont want to gorget





what if i was to use a 55gal drum as a pump but useing air tight seals and one way valves and a compressor to pressureize the inside and pump water with said pressur

it would work a treat.

I have seen this done with an old vacuum cleaner! Pretty noisy!

not able to picture this one... please add more detail...
Any chace of some visuals?

oh this is were i put it.

I was on "auto pilot" when i wrote that. blind drunk as a fish on a computer. i still a little quize but what ?

heres a drawing off the stuff

The only problem would be the smart valve it would have to shut off and let the pressure build up till it gets a high enough then open to let the water out

i put the air in under the water surface to aid in aeration

if it would work from only air power it would be a flood and drain too

You can fix your smart valve problem by making the barrel end-up and having 3 inputs. Via the conservation of engineering problems, the new issue is that the container needs to be (nearly) full to work well.

Attached is a pretty *sigh* picture. If you don't care about bubbling air through the water, the input can be on top. I think there would be plenty of turbulence in the system regardless.

You can put in a pressure activated relay to turn on the aircompressor. (read as: get old wheel-style bathroom scale, and put metal contact at weight of full barrel)

Advantage over $20 pond pump?

I have no idea . Just following the thread discussion. I suppose if you had the major parts, the $4 in check valves is cheaper?

njh the advantage is that every one does not get pumps at $20

some people cant get them at all

a lot of these could work on one compressor. so you could have you systems separate in case of any disease outbreak

and most of all a hate to put a live 120v @ $20 wire in to water i don't know what would happen over time i i don't want to find out either

I have dreams of 2 or 3 akers of aqua systems working off of one of those big compressors that is power jack hammers.

Oh, in case anyone hasn't really thought about it, the air tight container has to be able to withstand cycling pressure from atmospheric to whatever the highest output of the compressor is.

ha i never even thought about it i wonder whats the max psi of those blue cans? any one knows?

No idea on that, I would not think it too safe to get em above 20 psi or so, you would let the water gravity drain back into the barrel correct?