Wayne Horsepower, Green WLS200 2 HP Cast Iron High Volume Lawn Sprinkling Pump

I am very pleased with this Wayne WLS200 sprinkler pump. I was unaware it had no electric cord, but it was a replacement for an old broken pump, so we just reused the old wire. I thought this model was adaptable to 110V and 220V, but the WLS200 is not. It's 220V only, and matched what I previously had in the old set up. I had difficulty figuring out which color wire went to the connections on the pump, but after much research, I was told that it didn't matter, Just as long as you get the ground right. I would have preferred it come prewired with a 6 foot cord, to make installation a little easier.This pump is not self priming, but its super easy to prime, worked on my first attempt. We had to build the PVC connections to the water lines, so a quick trip to the hardware store was required. I'm not much of a plumbing DIY'er, but the instructions were very easy to follow. It's super heavy, made of thick cast iron, and very quiet in comparison to my old Sears pump circa 1990. I looked at the other plastic pumps, which were much lighter and self priming, but this one seems like it will last for decades. I have great water volume to my sprinkler heads and I'm running 3/4" pipe and average 6 heads per zone. My yard is looking great after 4 weeks of use.

This is my third pump in 8 years of irrigating from our lakes. I have learned that monitoring system status is key to reliable pump function because there are so many things that can go wrong that affect intake / prime stability. I try to monitor my midnight irrigation starts routinely, but every year or so the pump looses prime and runs semi-dry all night (not good).This 2HP Wayne pump appears to be well constructed and worked perfectly as part of my 'restore system function' / maintenance project. The only difference is that it does not have a plug to provide access for priming the pump, but I could never tell those did any good anyway. I've added a 3/4' fitting and ball valve to the intake pipe to prime the pump. If things go as planned, I'll never have to use it. But odds of never having issues again are slim - so many things can and do go wrong - debris stuck in foot valve, leaking fittings from exposure to winter, cracks from freezing, etc. An auto temp sensing heater rope around the pump seems to work for trouble free irrigation all winter, while draining the pump just seems to cause cracked housings. We usually stay above 20F but occasionally drop to 10F. Good luck with your irrigation project.

My old 2.5 hp irrigation pump died 2 weeks ago so instead of paying $700 for a my irrigation man to put a new one in I decided to try this Wayne pump and do the install myself..... it installed easily enough with just a bit of PVC pipe re-plumbing and it pumps my irrigation system super powerfully and is super quiet and does not run real hot....but you MUST prime this pump so i used a garden hose and it worked great....I don't think I will have any issues just make sure you don't run the pump dry for any extended periods of time and install a weather shield over it and all will be good.....some reviews were bad due to pump burning/seizing up after dry running a few hours...well duh what pump wouldn't do that!!

Works great! I use it to water just over an acre of pasture from an irrigation canal. The only reason I gave four stars instead of five is because the impeller broke after a couple of months of use and a winter of non-use, but I called Wayne - their customer service was easy to work with and sent a new impeller right out. Also, even after the warranty expires, the parts are fairly inexpensive and easy to replace if this happens again.I bought this pump to replace an older version of the same model. The previous owner of the property had cracked and jb-welded the cast iron housing, but that pump continued to do the job pretty well for at least 5 years when the housing leak finally caused it to lose too much pressure. I had thought the old pump was working fine and just not quite powerful enough, but performance really increased with the new pump. Now I'm going to buy replacement parts for the old pump, since the motor still runs great and the only problem was the cracked housing.

Buen producto se lo recomiendo y espero que lo disfruten como mi amigo lo está haciendo

Used for transferring lake water to a well. Suction is approximately 10' above the suction intake and discharges through 1500 feet of 1.5 inch poly piping with approximately 25 ' in elevation gain. Initial prime took approx 40 seconds to start flowing water. Measured flow at discharge of the piping is 26.5 gpm. I have run the pump for over 5 hours in July and August and have no issues. The motor casing gets extremely hot, but the pump has not hit the thermal cutoff. I wired with 10AWG 3-wire to a 4 prong plug and run the pump off a 5000 watt Honda generator. Very pleased so far.

Very good product. Very satisfied so far. Easy to install and setup. Worked immediately.

Exactly what we need very happy 🙂

I owned one of these pumps and was very pleased with it. I accidentally let it freeze, which broke to cast iron pump cover. Wayne do not supply any spare parts for this pump, so I had to buy a complete new one. I am keeping the old one as a source of parts.

Zero issues.