Pump Water with Solar Power! No Battery or Charge Controller! Under $60.00 

This is great! Thank you for the video. With this setup, I was able to use a tiny pump to get water from my pond to my garden that is ~200 feet away! Used it to fill 2 55 gallon barrels and a few 5 gallon buckets in less than a day. In fully sun, that tiny pump filled a 55 gallon barrel in less than 2 hours, all with the power of the sun! No more lugging buckets from the pond to the garden, very excited that this works so well.

simple, efficient, cost effective - brilliant - thanks for sharing that!

I'm amazed that tiny pump can pump that much water that far!

I just use a small solar powered pump for fountain feature. Works great for years. Irrigate all my plants right from the lake water

I dug a 4x4x10 well next to my garden and chicken coup. I use a 60w dc shallow well pump($65) to get close to actual house water pressure. All very useful, everyday. I do have a charge controller, old 12v battery(this is where the old ones go!). 2/100 watt panels. A slow constant'ish feed to your storage tanks is a great idea. We have parallel setups, thankyou for sharing.

Thanks for taking the time to share what you have learned. Very helpful

Thank you for uploading and sharing your smart, simple, straightforward, cost effective and efficient solution.

What an innovative and smart set-up! Thank you so much for taking the time to share it!

You could add a Hudson float valve to your recieving drum and the pump would turn on and off automatically

Here I became a fan of "money can't buy your wisdom, loved it, I will do it in my garden, all these years I used hand pump

Fantastic. I have a hobby greenhouse I just put 3 levels of 30ft rows of plastic rain gutters planted with strawberries. I have a 300 gal water tub and some drip irrigation tape and been racking my brain how to automate the system. I'm excited ☺️

Omg my head is about to explode with this one 😳 THAT Little pump carried the water THAT Far??? 😱 My pond is closer to my garden than this! And I can put a container on my truck and go fill it up too! 🤗 Yippeeeee!!

Make more content. This helped me and my wife so much. Ty.

Thanks for sharing this! Nicely done.

Really great video!!! My wife and I are going to do the exact same thing. Can't thank you enough for making this video. All powered by the sun! Have a wonderful day

One of the best do it yourself videos i have seen in a long time. This is exactly what I have been looking for, and also the materials.

Nice setup. This is just the sort of thing I was looking for to power my solar pool heater. Thank you for sharing.

Ten Wonderful, helpful video. Thank you for taking time to make and share.

Awesome! I recently started collecting water and am working on a solar pump strong enough to operate a standard yard sprinkler. I love technology almost as much as I love doing things for free!

As a proud west central 'arkie' - I see you are also an arkie as well. Thanks for the demonstration. I'm designing a couple of solar solutions - one to move captured rain water from a large tank to a smaller garden tank and one to run an small irrigation system for a 'field garden' that is growing radishes and things. Thanks so much!

Just a couple of comments. As an electrician make sure you use wire that is rated for direct burial. The insulation will last longer and not get brittle. Better yet run it in some polytube or UV rated PVC. Yes you don't need a charge controller and battery but a future upgrade of these would be nice. I like to fill my barrels in the evening that way they have all day to warm the water, but I suppose the pond water is warm. Of course no sun minimal power and might ruin your pump.... Either great idea so you don't need the generator...

I like the berrel idea! Ive messed with floats and all sorts of stuff to keep my intake from cloging. I might use this and inovate on it a bit.

That is very ingenious.

Thank you for a great video especially showing the purchases you made im get on www right now thanks again .

Great video I really appreciate you taking your time to share your wisdom and knowledge with all of us

Great video sir. That is exactly what I needed to see

That's a nice spot for a garden.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea!

Good information thank you for sharing

Well done, Sir!

Beautiful idea 💡. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless 🙏💕

Great idea thanks for sharing God bless you and yours

Very clever , thank you for sharing ,

Brilliant, and thank you.

Great Idear Sir Yhanks for that Verry helpful

Well done, sir!

Perfect set up

Thanks that's perfect for what I need almost the same but my elevation is probably double yours. But I guess I can just ad another solar panel and pump in the middle and have 2 water stations.

Awesome, thanks for sharing this

the genius is in the simplicity

Thank you 🙏

Subscribed! I away learn something new on your channel. Thanks, J

Great Job

Thank you.

Making use of what God has given us... Excellent!!

You could add a bulk head fitting at the top of your receiver barrel for a hose to water the grass

Drunk on Life, Refreshing RU-vid right here. Thank you

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing. Big LIKE for you.

Pretty impressive. Where was the little pump? At the pond, at the panel, or at the barrel? Hard to believe that little pump can push water or pull water that far. Wow!

Awesome! Just what I need! Im commenting 2 years later. How is that pump holding up?

Hope to see more videos from you, a little upgrade you could make to get a lot more water out of that pump/make it run longer would be a larger solar panel, that 30W is the absolute peak power, most of the day or through any cloud you'll get less than that, for a similar price you should be able to find a 2nd hand solar farm panel that's over 200W! it may be a 30v panel so you'll need a little DC-DC Buck converter but those are less than $10 as well, wire it all up and watch it go!

That's great Thankyou

Thanks, you the man

thanks so much

If you pump air into a column of water of 3 m depth then you can always had clean water will refill the water to use because under 3 m depth enough pressure turn air into water

A great video. I think solar power is going to be our only way forward.

Oh this great. Whats the generator doing in all of that? Thank you

How long are wires to panel? I need 4 ft. to reach bottom of IBC tank.

Doing the same thing but with a powerfull pump. Will be adding a water wheel connected to an windmill generator to generate power

That's awesome

Love the inner tube floating the barrel in the creek. What size inner tube? Do you have a link? Did you put any type of filter in the barrel? Holes in the bottom or the side? Thank you!

Question about pump head. I do not need volume or high flow, however, I am transferring water from a 55 gal drum uphill to another drum. The distance is roughly 300 ft. but a gain in elevation of 50-60'. Do you think this little pump can do this or not the right application? I could use 1/4" or even 1/8" diameter outflow line. I simply need to fill the target drum once a week with 40-50 gallons of relatively clean water for backpack spraying in our target area. Thanks for any help. Great stuff by the way!

For those of us with water sources that can dry up, is there a way to add an automatic off so pump doesn't burn out?

I saw in a previous post you said you changed the design of the float. Can you please explain a little more? Is it like 4-in PVC Square that's a little bit bigger than the barrel or did you have to make it a lot bigger so would be more buoyant?

if i put this in a 5000 gallon water tank would it have enough power to push from there?

Come back, Garden Dirt. We need your wisdom

Is the system still working, did you have any challenges?

I’d really like to know more about how you do the watering itself. Can you attach a hose to the pump? I see that you are dripping freely into the garden, how does the water reach the plants that need it?

Could this work with Hudson float valve so there's no overflow and then a low or no pressure timer at bottom or barrel for drip irrigation to basically make an automated drip irrigation system

I've come to this video very late on. If you're still responding to questions may I ask how long those little pumps last?

the panel is 36 v and the pump is 8-24v . doesn't this extra voltage burn the pump ? Did you measure the actual voltage coming from the panel to see if it's ever coming as high as 36 volts ?

Love the fact you don't have to use a battery .Would this be enough power to do a outdoor shower?

Sir u look just like my father in law.And we are from Arkansas aswell.

How did you wire the pump to the solar panel? It looks like you just spliced the wires, right?

Thank you! Do you think this would work to pump water out of a well? We have a second well on our property that we'd like to make use of just for gardens and animals.

I would like to put in a solar powered system at my land where I have a 2 acre spring fed pond.Have a solar powered timer to run my heads (one at a time) to water a garden or food plot,have a pump to pull water from the pond to the valves so the timer can turn them on and push water through the pvc pipes,ect.Any ideas how to set that up I am not the best with solar or electrical stuff :)

Nice work. I want to try this. Can this pump really pull water straight up 20'? How clear does the water need to be? Can it run off of 12v 100w solar panel?

I wonder if there are any solar water pumps on the market with a shutoff float or if it's easy to configure one that way

Thanks for posting! How do you switch it on and off though? Also, that solar panel reads that its open circuit voltage is 42.2 volts. Would that burn out a pump that's rated with a maximum of 24 volts?

I did not see how you added your switch. Do you just put a switch in line obviously in between the pump and the solar panel?

I did a similar setup with a 40 watt pump and a 100 watt solar panel and the rated head was 4 meter. But this wasn't pumping over a few cm of head and was waste of money

How can I use this method to pump water from a 55 gallon rain barrel? Where should the pump be kept?

Is that pump completely submerged under water in the barrel? Do you have a screen on the inlet?

Can you use this in a water storage tank in the winter to keep the water moving so it will not freeze.

Great Video! I have 265 Watt solar panels and a 450 watt DC water pump. Do I need 1 or 2 panels? I'm assuming 2?

How big of a tractor tire inner tube did you use to fit around the 55 gallon plastic barrel?

Can you post the link again for purchasing the pump.

How long did ur set up work for ? And is it still going ?

I like the idea quite a lot. But one thing I think would be practical might be some kind of a "current cut-out" such that when the output from the panel dropped below a certain level, it would shut the pump down until such time as the current was once again adequate to run the application. If just manually turning it on and off during full sun hours, it's not a big deal. I'm not so sure about the hours towards the beginning and end of the day when the panel may be putting out too little power to actually run the pump properly. How could that happen simply without spending a lot? (I can see applications well beyond a small water pump that this would apply to.) Thanks!

Where do you live? How do you think this would do in the winter?

How do you change the battery when they don’t work

How high can the pump lift water actually?

Dang that is a small little wire they got there.

How about for a waterfall?!?

What does the generator do here?

Where do I buy this pump ?

That is what I call American ingenuity and genius.

Would you sell?

Only drawback is super weak water pressure.