fat sac pump

STPHNSN23 · Guest

what kind of pumps are you guys using for your sacs? i'm gonna be getting a sac for my io this summer (hopefully) and i need to kno what kind of pump i should look for. i'm looking at getting a 540 lb sac. how long would it take to fill with an 1100 gph pump? also should i blow the 60 bucks for a wake specific pump or can i make on fairly easily for less cash? thanks for any advice or whatever u can give me

jim Bogden · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 178 City: Sandy, UT

go to walmart and buy an aerator pump and a waterbed nozzle, then goto to depot and get 5 feet of clear hose and you will save alot of money.

Breezer · Outlaw Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 246 City: Austin

Water weighs aprox. 8.3 lbs/gal. So, according to my calculations, your sac will hold about 65 gallons. It should take 5.9% of the full hour to fill that sized sac if it is a true 1100 gph pump. If you do the math, it would take it 3.5454 minutes to fill the sac (or 3 1/2 minutes).

All that said. I don't think the pumps can pump 1100 gph like they claim. Maybe they can in ideal conditions, like pumping water into a bath tub, but not into a sac.

Preston Duke · Outlaw Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 150 City: Richmond, Va.

there is resistance at the pump caused by the friction of the hose and something called gravity when it has to push the water up the side of the boat...this is why it is slowed down quite a bit

STPHNSN23 · Guest

so it'd prob be more like 5 minutes then?

OttoNP · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 848 City: MI

You can get a 750 lb sac with a 750 gph for $125 or a 750 lb sac with a 1100 gph for $135 from www.gethighsports.net.

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