Pump for Water Feature

I've got a "tiered fountain" for want of a better term. I want to put a pump in it, which will need to lift the water about a metre - it only needs to bubble out of the top, not look like the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworth (although there's a thought!!)

Can I run a low-voltage pump with the transformer in the house, or are they a) pathetic and b) voltage drop will be too great perhaps?

The wire will be about 30 yards / 27 metres long.

My water feature:






Chatsworth Emperor Fountain

 

Hiya Kristen.

Sorry, can't help you with that. I would though suggest that you go for a pump that has more 'umff' than you think you need. That way you could always put in a restricting valve if it's too much. I think some pumps have a regulator?

 

Thanks Freddy. I've decided to put in armoured cable and run "mains" to the fountain ... can do whatever I like, in future, then.

 

If you look on the side of most pump boxes it will give you chart or head hight ( the distance the pump needs to pump up ) and how much flow that will give you but I would say if you only want a trickle you might want something at around 2000 ltr/ h with two meter head hight I have a 3000 on a fish tank with 2 m of head and get around 1500 from it at the tank

 

2,000 litres / hour sounds loads doesn't it? but thinking about it that's 0.5L per second, which sounds about right for a decent trickle.