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Capillary action (non pump) water features?

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  • 23-06-2011 1:38pm
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    paddy147
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    My girlfriend remembers seeing a lovely water feature that was designed and installed by a spanish garden designer.

    It was all done with various sizes and diameters of piping and gravity to create a lovely water cascade feature,and there was no electrical water pumps involved.It was all done with caplliary action and gravity

    Does anyone here have any info on such a water feature and any pics on it??

    Im very interested to see how it works.:)


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    ponddigger
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    hi p 147.any more info on cappllery action water feature:Dponddigger:D


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    paddy147
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    ponddigger wrote: »
    hi p 147.any more info on cappllery action water feature:Dponddigger:D


    Nope.:(


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    slowburner
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    My girlfriend remembers seeing a lovely water feature that was designed and installed by a spanish garden designer.

    It was all done with various sizes and diameters of piping and gravity to create a lovely water cascade feature,and there was no electrical water pumps involved.It was all done with caplliary action and gravity

    Does anyone here have any info on such a water feature and any pics on it??

    Im very interested to see how it works.:)
    Sounds very interesting if a little improbable, there must have been some other force involved - have a look at this discussion :)


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    Rinker
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    I've seen gravity operated fountains in a number of gardens in England. Water flowing down a hill (from a reservoir) can be piped to emerge as a fountain. It just can't be re-circulated. Never heard of a capillary action fountain, can't imagine you'd get much power from it.


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    redser7
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    Unless the capilliary action brought the water to a small see-saw type resevoir which tips once it fills to a certain level. But I can only imagine it would be a slow start-stop type of affair.
    Did it have a solar panel by any chance? :-) Surely it nees some power source greater than cappiliary action


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