Car Battery Alternative

[grokuk]

Hello All,

I'd appreciate some advice and your patience at my lack of knowledge of things electrical. The situation I have is I need to run a diesel pump that is designed to run off a standard car battery but I'm not using it to pump diesel or do it anywhere near a car. I would like to have some form of transformer to power it off the mains.

I have a little 12v 0.5amp transformer for light electrical items which clearly doesn't do the job - I'm assuming it's the very low ampage that's barely turning the pump over. I'd really appreciate some recommendations on the kind of transformer I'd need to essentially reproduce the output of a car battery.

Many thanks.

 

[Darkwood]

Cut out all the tedious brewing malarkey and just drink the diesel! Not all that different, comes in red and white versions just like wine, in my marine engineering days I must have had a few glasses of it.

On another note that's weird, I never saw the post* about the application and pump rating which is why I asked, but it's a bit academic now as there seems to be a better option that won't have non-food-grade lubrication etc like a diesel pump.

*I guess it was waiting for moderation, so not that weird then.

Yes was in the Mod Queue for 4hrs... sometimes we are all busy working our butts off :4:and we get the odd post that stands in the Mod Q longer than the norm' :uhoh2:

 

[telectrix]

pete999 should be able to adjudicate here. he drinks that french coats de roan muck. just like red diesel.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Is that why he is always saying he'll get his coat?

 

[ruston]

Cut out all the tedious brewing malarkey and just drink the diesel! Not all that different, comes in red and white versions just like wine, in my marine engineering days I must have had a few glasses of it.

On another note that's weird, I never saw the post* about the application and pump rating which is why I asked, but it's a bit academic now as there seems to be a better option that won't have non-food-grade lubrication etc like a diesel pum

*I guess it was waiting for moderation, so not that weird then.

The beauty of diesel is that one mouthfuls bouquet and taste lasts for days.

 

[sean_ork]

I'm pumping wine from one very large barrel to another. The pump details are:

Test Voltage: DC 12V
Motor Racing Speed: 8500r/min
Motor racing current: 0.3A
Pump running current largest :6.4A
Flow rate: 30L /min
Pressure head: 2.5M

If that helps. Not sure what's meant by the load?

Pull the PSU out of a dead PC, Google will tell you how to turn in on in the absence of a motherboard/on/off signal = 12v @ more than enough amps.

I hope this is homebrew only.