The water is pumped to a pressure tank and that tank controls when the pump cycles on and off. I do not need more output (flow) I just need the pressure.įor example my house is fed by a well. I feel that if I replaced the pump at the water that it would be trading one problem for another. The problem with setting a 2nd pump at the top is no electricity source. Or reduce the size of the line coming up from the lake, or get a larger higher output pump to replace the one at the lake. My amateur opinion is that you can set up a second pump up top to get the pressure. Now, if what you already have down at the lake is a jet pump and you have volume but no pressure. So you'll have to find one that can pump the elevation change, if there is one. This one for example is for up to 25 feet of depth. It does exactly what you are needing to do. If you are only running a hose out of it there isn't enough built up pressure and the motor could turn on and off too frequently and then burn out the motor faster.Īnyways, get a jet pump. The tankless models are for putting right into the water source and then hooking up into a house or large system so there is built up pressure. Mind you, you still need the tank, not all automatically come with one.
However, if you have enough volume out of the existing pump you might be able to just fit it into a jet pump. So I put up a 50 gallon barrel I filled with the hose then hooked that into the jet pump. I couldn't just hook a hose up to it because the jet pump would suck it dry. Since you have a "low flow" pump already then you won't need a resevoir to pump out of but maybe.įor example, I used one because my city water pressure was weak.