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Solar or mains fountain Solar or mains fountain, you decide. You search the web for one, ok ,so its a bit pricey, (£400*) but its going to give you a tall jet, around 1m) so it says
Some solar pumps can give you a jet height of 50 cm (ours can) but it will only do this in very bright sunshine, because it is solar. The solar pump set you found costs around £400*, the mains pump and nozzle costs half that price, which are you going to have ? It is the same pool, same distance (different angle) * Yes you can buy solar pumps much cheaper, but they are for ponds, and produce small jets, see our solar pump test We did have an enquiry (Click here) and the solar pump itself cost £400. According to the manufacturers instructions It is only capable of making a jet height of 1.5m Max. The customer wanted 3m. If only they had of asked us FIRST! (And read the small print, the same as we did) The pump above was rated at 40 watts that means it would require two 20 watt solar panels, With the cost of the pump AND 2 x 20 Watt solar panels its still cheaper to install a mains powered pump. Using the panels below, even if an electrician charged you £500 it will still be cheaper to use his services than to buy 2 solar panels. Now try and tell us solar is good. You may also be thinking we used a bigger nozzle for the pictures, if so read this
Yes, this 35 watt solar panel really does cost £363.76 (Price in March 2010) Its also Cheaper, than the one we supply. Calculations. The smallest fountain pump we supply uses 65 watts, But that's mains (230v ) electricity so you will need an inverter to change 12v to 230v ac, the inverter will use electricity itself lets say 10 watts, then you are going to want to charge some batteries for when its not sunny. Lets say the batteries will need 15 watts to keep charged. 65 + 10 + 15 =90 watts required. That means you will need 3 of the panels shown above. 3 x 363.76 = £1091.28 NOT including inverter, or batteries Which are you going to do, solar panels or electrician.
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