{"id":3172,"date":"2017-12-07T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3172","title":{"rendered":"What are the specifications for the KidWind water pump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KidWind video on the <a href=\"\/product\/kidwind-small-water-pump-with-tubing\/\">KidWind Small Water Pump with Tubing<\/a> (<nobr>KW-PUMP<\/nobr>) reports the minimum voltage as 1.7 volts and 50 mA. We have operated the pump at up to 5 volts.<\/p>\n<p>The specifications sheet from the manufacturer lists:<\/p>\n<p>Rated voltage: 3.0 V\/DC<br \/>\nRated current: 80 mA<br \/>\nWater delivery height: 40 cm<br \/>\nWater delivery capacity: 0.05 CBM\/hour<br \/>\nWater pump connecting with 15 cm Alligator Clips<\/p>\n<p>Pump motor portion: length 44 mm, diameter 23 mm<br \/>\nHeight of pump outlet 31 mm.<br \/>\nOutside diameter of outlet:  7 mm<br \/>\nFlow rate: ~12 mL\/second at 3 V and ~25 mL\/second at 5 V<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/3130\/\">Which generator should I use to pump water?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/3155\/\">What are the specs for the generator(s) in the KidWind kit?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KidWind video on the reports the minimum voltage as 1.7 volts and 50 mA. We have operated the pump at up to 5 volts&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3916,5359,5358,4267,5249],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-kidwind","tag-kw-pump","tag-pump","tag-water","tag-water-pump"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}