Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My Savior, well not quite! Works as advertised however 11,000 gallons a day is a stretch of the imagination! The REAL bilge pump is rated at 1100 gallons per hour. I believe there are very few places on earth you are going to get 10 continuous hours of direct sun to keep this 12 volt pump working at full 100% power. The speed of the pump is directly related to the amount of sun falling on the solar panel. A small amount of power in the early hours of the morning and increasing until mid day and then decreasing in the afternoon. The smallest shadow, even just the size of your hand nearly stops the pump. Reality I probably get between 5,000 to 7,000 gallons a day but it does collect fine debris on the filters. I note there are Unicel filters at $40 and cheap no-name filters at under $20 and since there is no-name on them I'm sure I got the cheap ones since half of the paper pleats collapse into each other reducing the filtering area and making it hard to clean. Bought this to reduce the number of hours I run my DE filter and save energy. Also as a back-up system when my other filter is down for service. I will give it 4 stars for being a good idea but falls way short of its claim to filter 11,000 gallons a day. UPDATE Nov 2011: The manufacturer was critical of my comments and said I should not quote figures and data I was not sure of and he is quite right. So I took the time to test the output of my savior to see how many gallons per day is realistic. My test results below, your test results will vary: Solar Powered pool filter and pump "Savior" Natural Current Test REAL 12 volt bilge pump rated at 1,100 gallon per hour Nov 23rd 2011 12 degrees north latitude 100 degrees east longitude 254 gal/per/hr (960 lit/per/hr) 8:25 am partly sunny thin high clouds 75F 685 gal/per/hr (2,592 lit/per/hr) 9: 20 am partly sunny thin high clouds 77F 932 gal/per/hr (3,528 lit/per/hr) 10:30 am sunny and clear 79F 980 gal/per/hr (3,708 lit/per/hr) 12:00 noon sunny and clear 86F 200 gal/per/hr (756 lit/per/hr) 12:30 pm cloudy 86F 186 gal/per/hr (702 lit/per/hr) 2:00 pm cloudy 89F Cloudy rest of the afternoon tests postponed! Nov 24th 2011 742 gal/per/hr (2,808 lit/per/hr) 9:25 am sunny and clear 75F 913 gal/per/hr (3,456 lit/per/hr) 10:55 am sunny and clear 78F 923 gal/per/hr (3,492 lit/per/hr) 12:00 noon sunny and light haze 81F 866 gal/per/hr (3,276 lit/per/hr) 1:30 pm sunny and clear 84F 557 gal/per/hr (2,106 lit/per/hr) 3:25 pm sunny and clear 87F End of Test Measurement were taken in liters and converted to gallon and any fractions were rounded up. I was disappointed the pump never reached it's rating of 1,100 gallon per hour but then again this is an off-the-shelf bilge pump that would pump water from your boat haul not suck water thru three large spin-on filters. The manufacturer assumed the rated pump could work full power 10 hours per day and give 11,000 gallon of filtered water per day but this is just not realistic. I believe for the cost of this machine it should come with the better quality Unicel filters and not these no-name filters. Filters should be cleaned at least once a month to insure good filtration. In Summary: still a very good machine, a great idea however,... be realistic about how much filtration this Savior can do in one day. Update July 17 stopped working, wiggled the wires nothing, dead in the water,... now what??? Let's see how it takes the manu to help me? Update: The next day I received an email telling me how to replace the pump with links to Amazon to buy a new pump and filter etc. I ordered a new RULE pump and noted it has no warranty of any kind. Upon receiving the new pump I installed as per the directions put it back into the water and is working again. My Savior went in the water Oct 12, 2011 and stopped working on July 17 2012 so it worked for 9 months. I believe these pumps can last longer if they had a continuous 12 volt power supply but since it is wired direct to a solar panel this causes the voltage and motor to rev up and down continuously due to varying weather cloud conditions putting excessive wear on the motor. Let's see how long pump number 2 lasts?