12v solar pump

[Good Ed]

I'm going to order a solar pump from here http://shop.solarproject.co.uk/sp2020-easy-connect-water-circulation-pump-£230-p-10.html they give options on the wattage, L/min & head. What would you recommend? I currently brew 23L batches and will be using it to sparge and to whirlpool with my chiller. I've got one of those Asda DC jobbies to control it, thanks Sean

the link doesn't seem to be working for some reason, the pump is A/SP20/20 and the options are
6W/6L/min/2m head
8W/8L/min/3m head
14W/11L/min/5m head

 

[joe1002]

This is the link: http://shop.solarproject.co.uk/sp2020-easy-connect-water-circulation-pump-p-10.html :thumb:

I'm interested in the answer to this also. I brew 23l batches and will use as above but in addition to underlet and pump the wort from my mash tun to my boiler.

Initially I thought the most powerful one will be best but now I am wondering whether the flow will be too powerful?

 

[MacKiwi]

I think the most poweful one is the one to get. That is what I have, and it still seems to take a long time to pump my strike water from HLT to mash-tun. I've never had a case where I felt it was too powerful.

 

[hairybiker]

Depends on what you want to do with it. I have the lowest powered one (the only one when I bought it) and it happily pumps my sparge water to my rotating arm, my wort to my FV from my boiler after cooling. If you need to move a lot of water fast then get a higher power one, but I am happy with my 6W one.

 

[Good Ed]

thanks guys, maybe I'll go with the 8W one, now I just need to work out how much of Vossy's hose I need :thumb: