Recent content by BangCrash

Thank you so much for the feedback, Sooey. So bottom line: as high as I can go and then as large pipes as I can put in. Got it. Fortunately the shower is very close to where the tower will be so and also where the geyser is so the pipe runs are short. That will help. Thank you also...

Hi I have an off-the-grid self-sustainable-type home. I am currently pressurizing my water mains with a pump from harvested rainwater tanks. Nothing too exotic: when one opens a tap the pressure-drop switches on the pump and water flows. The issue: since my electricity is from a solar-fed...

Hi Mysteryman I didn't mean to come off quite so self-congratulatory. :oops: I guess I was really just trying to point out that this isn't a shanty installation and I got carried away. Okay. So a diagram. I haven't done a plumbing diagram before so I'll have to give that a little...

Hi Tony Okay, I guess shanty town dwellers don't have mains water. But theirs is a far cry from my situation. I made a carefully chosen life-style choice to leave behind city life. I moved to the most beautiful pristine forested area in the mountains where I have built and off-the-grid home...

Sorry Tony I was replying to the post before yours. Our lines got crossed. I don't know if there is really a point pursuing this here. Unless you are just interested. I'd be happy to tell you more but, as I say, I think I should chat to folks that are more familiar with what I have.

okay. I guess I should have done a bit more reading before posting my Q on this forum. I didn't realise it was, essentially, a UK forum. All the little Union Jacks should have given it away, right? :-) So anyway, clearly my setup, which is not madly unique here in South Africa, is totally...

uh... Okay so there are PV panels that provide electricity. This is NOT what I am talking about. There is something entirely separate which is a solar water heater panel. Water from the geyser is pumped into this panel. It collects heat from the sun and heats the water. When the water temp in...

Hi folks I have installed a solar heated geyser. There is a flat panel collector that is connected to the geyser via a small recurculating pump controlled by a geyser max "computer". Further pertinent info: I have an off-the-grid home so there's no water-mains. Instead the home is fed...