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Hello,

I found several pumps at an online store that may be used to produce enough pressure to be made into a misting system similar to Rainmaker.

My problem is that they are measured in GPH instead of PSI.

They range from 50GPH to 1300GPH. I was wondering which of them do you think would be the = of the needed PSI to produce the nice mist that the rainmaker produces with the high pressure tubing.

Any of these with a 5 gallon bucket and a trip to the home depot for a few high pressure mister nozzles, tubing and a few line clamps would be considerably less than the cost of the rainmaker. I'd be more than willing to set one up first and try it out and let everyone know, I am just worried about GPH to PSI.

If anyone has any input please let me know.

Thanks,

Lu

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from psi to whatever and vice ersa
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GPH meens gallons per hour, none of those pumps are small enough to use for a misting system, they are mainly used for draining ponds pools, and circulating water in ponds and pools.

I bought the biggest pump that home depot had, and it didnt have even enough strength to pump 1 let alone any more. You can buy the pump from wetworks and it works well, but you need a psi pump instead of gph.

psi and GPH are not exactly annalogous measurements....if you want to do some hunting instead of the GPH measure look at the other measure that appears on many pumps HEAD

1psi=2.31 feet of head (assuming water)

therefore you need a pump capable of 115.5 ft of head for 50 psi

not an easy find for an inexpensive pump at HD. (they do have some for about $75)

some thoughts...
look at sprayer pumps look at car fuel (with fuel injection) pumps look at oil furnace pumps.

I have been doing the same looking but am unwilling to pay $50. and find out the pump sounds like a mack truck in the bedroom everytime it fires up

good luck and if you find anything let us all know what you find

sccott