Customer Reviews

Wayne Water Systems VIP50 1/2 HP 2,500 GPH Submersible Utility Water Pump

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I bought this to re-fill my pond from a nearby creek. Initially, I would only use it for a few hours at a time for fear of overheating. However, I've had it on continuously for over a month now and it is still going (I'm using it as a sort of supplementary inflow for the pond). It has never clogged and puts out a steady stream of water through a garden hose about 100 feet long (with a little less force than you would get from your house). It's really quite amazing and certainly worth the price.

Update (7/30/10):
It's been over 2 years now and the thing still works great. I have it run continuously for several months each summer to transfer water from my creek to my pond. I couldn't give a higher recommendation.

It worked right out of the box. I used the included garden hose connector and hooked up a 50 ft, 5/8ths inch hose. The rise from the bottom of the pump was about 4 feet. The flow I got was about 5 gallons a minute, a bit slower than I expected, but it worked okay for what I needed. I may get a larger and shorter hose and I think it will improve a lot. My use was to drain the last six inches of waster out of a landscape pond and I liked the pumping to the last 1/8 inch of water. It did clog with debris once for me and I took off the bottom cover. It was easy to do.

this is the most effective pump that we have used for working on our pool and emptying our sump hole. it gets the water out in a hurry. the use of a 5/8's hose slows removal, but with the attachment that allows the use of a larger hose.... zip.... done.

I used to this to drain water out of my in-ground pool. The first time I used it, I attached a 3/4" garden hose. It worked pretty well with good flow, but I had a feeling it could be better. I went to the big box home store and bought the proper drain hose and now it pumps out water like a mofo. After removing the pump, it was warm to the touch, but I had it going for about 6 hours. Don't waste time with the smaller pumps; I thought this would have too much flow, but I was just right. The rated flow is under perfect conditions which I didn't have. I also liked the fact that I was able to order on a Friday and received it on Saturday with my prime membership.

I purchased this to drain my in-ground spa. Works well and quickly. Small amount of oil seepage.

Hi, I am almost always very pleased with Amazon. This time, I was far more than pleased. I ordered this with Free Shipping and I had it in 3 days. The Wayne Water Systems VIP50 1/2 HP 2,500 GPH Submersible Utility Water Pump is perfect for what I needed. I have an in ground swimming pool and I wanted to drain it. It's about 22 thousand gallons. It is whisper quiet and pumps up 10 feet and out 100 with a great flow rate. The Little Giant hose kit (separate) is pretty cheap plastic that is hard to keep unrolled, but it did serve it's purpose. I actually hooked that together with my pool vacuum hose to get plenty of length and the pump had no problems. The pump is a Great item at a great price. Don't expect much from the hose, but it does pass a lot more water than a garden hose would. I was surprised at how small the pump is, looks bigger in the pictures, but it puts out like it is huge!

I purchased it with a 24' section of 1.25 hose. Pumps a large volume of water. When connected to a 96' section is slowed down as it had a lot of hose to push the water through but still did fine.
I use it to do partial draining of my pool. Works well. Does get a bit warm after running for a couple of hours.
Manf. does not rec. plugging it into an ext cord nor any harsh chemicals to be pumped. I used a 6' HD ext cord and it worked fine.

I purchased this pump about 6 months ago. It is great. We have had very heavy, flooding rain here for days and our sub pump could not keep up. We used this pump and it kept the crock from over flowing and our basement dry! Thanks Amazon for having it, and thanks to Wayne for making it!

As described -- Works well. Pumps quickly and leaves little in the bottom of the pool to be removed another way.

I just got this and haven't done major long term tests (and will update when I have), but tried it out filling a 5 gallon bucket and pumping into another. I ran it till I heard it losing prime and instantly pulled the plug. After lifting the pump out (with a bit of water draining out of the pump) I did have 1/4 inch of water left in the bucket, but that tells me it does take the level down very low compared to many pumps (which is probably the biggest selling point). There is a loose rubber plug in the conical section of the pump where some air bubbles out of that as you first submerge it (and a "Do not remove" is cast in the pump near it). Seeing that made me wonder if that would let the pump lose prime as the water level dropped, but it didn't (it acts as a check valve letting air out, but not in). They do say in the manual "starting water level 2 5/8 inch min" then "Pumps down to level under 1/4 inch" which makes sense to me (they are insuring enough water for priming).
If you're wanting high flow, get plumbing for it over 1 inch versus using a garden hose. FYI a 5/8 inch hose is considered borderline too-small even for high pressure hydraulics at 15gpm (or 900gph), so expecting higher flows thru such a hose from a 1/2 hp pump like this is crazy. It took about 25 seconds to do my test emptying a 5 gallon bucket with short garden hose connected, so that's ~12gpm (720gph) rate and doesn't seem "super slow" to me for those conditions.
One thing I'm not impressed with is a 1 inch hole for the suction on the bottom. On 99% of pumps they have a size bigger suction hole versus outlet with it always being harder for pumps to draw in fluids than push it out, yet this has a bigger outlet (1 1/4 inch). Maybe they are trying to make it seem bigger by oversizing the outlet port to advertise bigger numbers, but if they really want 40 gpm or 2400gph to go thru it a 1 1/2 inch suction opening would be much better.
Some other warnings I'll pass along, since this has no float switches or such, you need to carefully watch it when nearing the bottom of the water and pull the plug instantly if the pump starts sucking air to avoid damage. Also to give you some hints on performance for pumping out basements etc, they show on the box in a bar graph these numbers for this pump: at 0 vertical lift you get 2400gph, at 5 foot lift 2000gph, at 10 foot lift 1400gph, and 15 foot lift 900gph. I didn't see that info in the ads, so I hope that helps you realize just as many cars are advertized as having "400 horse power engine" which is a peak performance number in ideal conditions (not a "continuous duty" number), so is the "2500 gph" on this.