Thread: EPS (Chiller Panel) shower install help

Originally Posted by No.3

Can you rough sketch up how that worked? Did you have to truck water in to fill up the supply etc? How big was the pump? The local option I saw assembled out of IBC's used a $1000 pump - the califont is $450-600 so all parts for $1600 sounds like an absolute steal and I reckon I'd make one for myself at that cost!

I'm trying to find photos that I took at the time.

Remember that they were a plumbing business, so that $1600 was at their wholesale rates. The third pod was filled using a water tanker that called every week, and replaced the 9kg gas bottle at the same time (gifted by The wharehouse). The pump from memory was one that looked remarkably similar to the sink water pump in our old horsetruck. Diaphram style. So three hundy or some such. Califont was a camping style one, so not a zillion $$. The plastic IBC's liner was cut about 4 inches in from the edge, so there would be a lip for the two pods to sit together on. The entrance was just the removal of three of the steel uprights on one long side, plus the plastic. The bottom steel forklift base of the second IBC was unscrewed and removed, so you got some light in through the top plastic when you upended that IBC onto the bottom one.. Some clips and self tappers held the two pods together. A door was fashioned out of the removed bits with a couple of hinges screwed on. Solar panel on a 45 degree up on the roof kept the lead acid battery topped up. All in all they were brilliant. Goodness knows where they all went to now. We were hoping that Civ Def would keep tabs on them and store them for the next emergency. Ha ha ha! Yeah right....