Recent content by Jvanspro

I bought the water cups from Rent A Coop and love them. I did have an issue with one leaking and had a very positive experience with Customer Service. They sent me 3 new ones to replace to 1 faulty cup. Great company IMO and will do business with them in the future.

I built my own run off solar power. Pretty inexpensive and the panel I bought is way overkill. I’ll be adding lights soon. it’s run off a timer switch and an actuator.

We all know there isn’t a perfect system. Keeping water from freezing is something to think about with any system if you live in the north. I’d imagine you could easily wrap it with heat tape and put a heat lamp or any light bulb above and it would prevent it from freezing. Every system has...

Hardly any maintenance at all. I did put a plug on the end that I can remove to flush the system but I might do that twice a year. In the summer I put a frozen 2 liter of water in the cooler every other day to keep the water cool. Cool water and no sunlight prevent algae growth. I decided...

This is my current setup. You could easily modify this for rain collection if you’d like.