Your experience may vary, but Ram pumps are hard to adjust to work well and they waste most of the water. I've hand-built and run two ram pumps as well as purch

Your experience may vary, but Ram pumps are hard to adjust to work well and they waste most of the water. I've hand-built and run two ram pumps as well as purchased and run a pre-built one. I even bought a book just on ram pumps to try to get it right. Also a nice PDF here on the concepts [0] Essentially, you have to keep maintaining and adjusting the pressure chamber to get the right pressure for the correct operation of the two check valves. This means it is not a set it and forget it. I bought a solar pump to replace it and it's run amazingly well for over a decade and I doubt I would ever go back to a ram pump unless it was truly the only option. [0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max-Pawlick/publication/327059954_Ram_Pump_Design_and_Installation_Manual_for_use_in_Developing_Countries/links/5b75b3cea6fdcc87df816c49/Ram-Pump-Design-and-Installation-Manual-for-use-in-Developing-Countries.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max-Pawlick/publication...