Solar Fountain with Panel Water Pump for Bird Bath Solar Panel Kit Outdoor Fountain for Outdoor Small Pond, Patio Garden and Fish Tank

This little pump works very well. Initially used for bird bath. Now at 3 years old and still working! However, I use it for purpose unrelated now...to pump pool water into long rubber garden hose that sits in sun all day, cleverly behind a fence...as otherwise unsighly hanging around pool, only inlet and outlets show. Sun gets water in hose warm and returns to pool 2+ degrees warmer for free. Can't believe it works this hard to get a slow trickle (15 gallons/hour) back into pool at 100+ degrees for approximately 4-5 hours on bright sunny days. It warms water enough to go in pool earlier and longer. (I do put solar cover on pool after sundown and take the pump out after sundown, until next sunny day). I had been looking at those poly panels that sit on roof and pump solar warmed pool water from pool pump for $$$$$. Can't believe this basically warms for free, not looking for hot pool water, just sweet spot of 82+ degrees.

This is NOT a paid review!!This little fountain is awesome!My test to see how well it worked:I attached the tip I wanted, suctioned it to a bread pan, filled with water (covering the pump but not the tip) and the minute I stepped outside to try it the water started to spray.My findings:A) If the sun hides behind a cloud or a panel is covered (I did with my finger to test) it stops but as soon as the panel is back in full exposure this bad boy kicks up again.B) It does drain your pan of water pretty quickly unless it's set up in a wide enough base to continually recycle through, a birdbath would be perfect size to prevent the pump being out of water - which will destroy it.C) Plus, it's solar so not adding to a bill or wasting resources (the water will be drunk by the cats~ this will give it flow)So worth it, going to buy another! It looks so cool, I can't wait for the little area I bought it for to be set up. My kitten is a weirdo and loves it when the water sprays up as I'm filling the water bowl, she's going to love it!Edit 3.13.20: my outside area is set up. Today I submerged the pump in about a foot of water. It's giving perfect flow to keep the water fresh for my cats. I'll eventually build a better (as in actual) fountain but for now it's pretty dang perfect!Edit: 6.4.20 One of my units stopped working. I cleaned the area it was in, making sure the pump had no chance of running when out of water. I put everything back together and nothing. I reached out to CS to see if thry had any suggestions. Before they had an opportunity to respond I decided to take a wet cloth to the solar panel (I wipe in down every couple of days from the dust build up in my area) and it immediately started up again. This was about 4 weeks ago. Still pumping strong!

While the pump seems to be working fine, the solar panel is somewhat defective. When first attaching it to the pump, while in full sunlight, the output just pulsed on/off. After checking, I found that the solar panel was only putting out 3.2 volts. The label on the pump has a rating of 7 volts. Obviously, the panel is not suppling enough voltage to operate the pump correctly. The pump works correctly after applying 5 volts directly to the pump.

I was really excited to get this.I built a water fountain for visiting hummingbirds. I have the solar panel placed where it gets unobstructed sun all day long. No shade.I bought this one because it had the most ratings of four and a half stars by over 3,000 reviews. Normally I read them so that I can get a perspective of the worst and the best and then make up my own mind. But I didn't do that as thoroughly as I normally do for such a small purchase. I just went by the amount of ratings that were provided.When I first set this up it was working consistently. The pump seemed powerful and was making the water shoot up almost too high, so I opted to use the bigger sprinkler head to try to limit the height of the showers.The water was shooting up about 6-8 in" with consistent pressure and water.The pump was submerged in about 2 gallons of water. Inside the 2 gallon bucket is a2 liter bottle and inside that bottle is where the pump was situated.This fountain is very well constructed. I used a vinyl hose the same diameter as the pump and sprinkler head.When the morning came, I looked out at the bird bath again and it was cycling between a very low drizzle for about 5 seconds then a short burst of water into the expected operating sprinkler shower, then back to a drizzle for about about 5 seconds again.I checked the water level and it was still full and the pump was still completely submerged. There is an upper tray with small holes in it that caught a couple of pedals from some flowers but nothing made it into the bucket where the pump was situated (Plus the pump sits inside a separate container with holes in it and is very protected against any debris.)Just to be thorough, I unplugged the pump, and changed all the water. Set it back up again and plugged the pump into the solar panel. The pump is still failing to maintain a constant pressure and the drizzling persisted. If you put your finger over the sprinkler head for a second it creates a back pressure that allows the pump to operate as expected. This tells me that the pump is not providing enough push (while the solar panel is in direct sunlight) to allow it to operate as expected.The pump has failed.How can I give this no stars?

Not having a stake attached to the solar panel has a bigger impact than I thought it would. It never runs consistently like my others have, and is easily shaded since it is sitting on the ground so stuff falls on it and of course it’s harder for the sun to hit it directly. I thought the higher panel would be nice but I need to get something to attach it to and maybe it will work better. I’ve had it a few weeks.