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Shurflo pump lifespan??

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Now, I'm not saying this to wind-you-up :hehehe:....honest :whistle:.......

but both my battery's over 3 years old AND have a Sureflow pump at 3 years old and a Flojet pump about 2 years old...all working fine :thumbsup:...../emoticons/biggrin.png.

 
My pump is going fine by sound, but flow is shite straight from pump hose before any other connection ie: di vessel or hose reel etc.

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How do u charge your batteries? What charger, how often, SCR?? Tell me all the details....

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When my batteries need a good charge (ie after a hard/long day's use, which is not often /emoticons/smile.png), I'll charge over-night with a little cheapo 6amp trickle charger bought for £10.00 from a local car-spares shop......an 'AutoFactors' I think you modern-day youngsters call them .

I also have one of these 12v solar panels attached to the sun visor, this is constantly trickle charging the battery....even when parked-up and not working :thumbsup:.....

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/solar-powered-12v-15w-battery-auto-trickle-charger-l58bf

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the idea for the 12v solar panel charger came from Damo (he's back on here now) a while ago and works great :thumbsup::thumbsup:.

 
When my batteries need a good charge (ie after a hard/long day's use, which is not often /emoticons/smile.png), I'll charge over-night with a little cheapo 6amp trickle charger bought for £10.00 from a local car-spares shop......an 'AutoFactors' I think you modern-day youngsters call them .
I also have one of these 12v solar panels attached to the sun visor, this is constantly trickle charging the battery....even when parked-up and not working :thumbsup:.....

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/solar-powered-12v-15w-battery-auto-trickle-charger-l58bf

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the idea for the 12v solar panel charger came from Damo (he's back on here now) a while ago and works great :thumbsup::thumbsup:.
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You sure the solar panel idea is firm damo? Coz I put a video up moons ago about my solar panel on the roof trickle charging my battery /emoticons/wink.png

 
You sure the solar panel idea is firm damo? Coz I put a video up moons ago about my solar panel on the roof trickle charging my battery /emoticons/wink.png
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Positive :thumbsup:.....no pun intended /emoticons/wink.png.

 
That sounds interesting, Bingo. So you leave the clips permanently on the battery then?
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Yup :thumbsup:.....always connected......these solar panels are still charging even on an overcast day.

 
May be time to ditch my split charge relay for this then!

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I don't use a split charge relay as I only do short time journeys....I'm parked-up more than I'm driving, all my work is local to me....that's why I'm home a lot /emoticons/wink.png.......

but if you're spending time traveling, keep the split relay for charging while driving and the solar panel for 'trickle' charging when van parked-up :thumbsup:.

These little solar panels are only 'TRICKLE' charging.....but constantly.

 
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[emoji106] Sounds a great idea! Damn, it's so good to be able to talk to people!!! Gonna invest in one. I've only just invested £90 in a ctec charger which also came recommended from here in favour of my Halfords one which I'm told is shite.

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Also...how the hell is one supposed to know how many miles driving is sufficient enough using a SCRelay??? Winds me up all this probability ballsack.

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I've been spending like a kipper this month no end!! And I can't even get out and work cos of one problem to the other. Bloody nightmare. New pump tomorrow hopefully. Bet it's not even that! [emoji23]

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Been using a solar panel for years and defo recommend one,

I also use a smart charger, so far my battery has lasted 2 years, it's starting to lose charge faster now, but still going strong, should see me till winter!

 
Blimey. I wish, I wish! Maybe I've been over-charging!! I dunno. Lol

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I have 2 Shurflo pumps on the van. The first is a 3.8 LPM bought in the days before controllers were available. Its over 9 years old and in daily use. The other is 5.2 lpm Shurflo and is nearly 8 years old, also in daily use.

My son's van has a Shurflo pump which is also 8 years old and the Shurflo in son in law's van is nearly 4 years old. It has also frozen up a couple of times as he forgets (or couldn't be bothered) to drain it down each evening during the winter.

Because we have 4 pumps on the go I bought another as a spare. Its been sitting on top of the cupboard in my office for the past 3 and a 1/2 years. I also have a Varistream electronic controller next to it, bought at the same time.

The only issue we ever experienced with Shurflo pumps was the pressure switches would burn out fairly often. I think the 3.8 LPM pump still has a burned out micro switch in the housing as I ordered one of the early analogue Varistream controllers because of the issue.

In those days we didn't know about the £2.99 replacement available from Maplins, so we replaced the whole P/S switch and housing at around £25.00 in those days.

 

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