great video...ordered my pump on Amazon. they had a $100 off coupon, so paid bout $169 for the pump! Will use your video as an install guide for sure! Living in South Texas-Houston
Hi. thanks for your video showing your experience with the solar pump. I live in Australia and have one of these solar BLDC pumps running as well. I bought it from Alibaba when Covid started but didn't install it for a few years. The darn thing gave me heaps of trouble and got a new pc board which burnt out in a matter of weeks. I ended up getting a whole new controller box and it is working ok now but I am not running it to its potential - only running 88 Volts 10 Amps from the solar panels. Does your controller box get very hot. Does it have any active fan cooling or is it just passive via the cooling fins on the back of the box. Keep us informed how it performs, good or bad it' all good information for people. Great informative vid, thanks a lot.
Will do! I keep it outside so I don't get any heat from it so far...what size solar did u use? And how many etc...I bet the amount of solar is causing the heat...try to aim for the 110 to 120dc range ...the pump cools itself with water and the rear fan...if ur solar is too low dc wise and is not spinning the pump to where water is flowing well enough to cool it ... it won't cool and be too hot.
Ok thanks ... so far so good ..il give an update summer of 2025...my hope is there's nothing to go wrong in a DC pump..only cooper wires amd a controller board.. and unless my solar panels get hit by a rock etc...my solar panels are good for 20 years. Fingers 🤞
According to the manual the range of the 72v pump is from 84vdc to 120vdc..so far the panels are working perfectly...there's always some loss of efficiency so I don't think im producing 120vdc probably more like 112 vdc or lower..il have to check with a meter..but it has been working flawlessly since installed..I even went on vaca and never touched it ...for 10 days it turned itself on and off with the sun 🌞 Pool water clear!!!
I like the setup, but why didn't you use schedule 40 90's. You get twice the glue joints. And do you keep your pool open year round ? Which would effect roi.
I live in ky... it gets as cold as zero or minus 0 here in winters...no one ever keeps a pool open all year round here and all pools shut down by October...usually even when the kids go back to school...hope u live in a warm climate and yes this solar pump would save u money all year long!!!:).
thank you so much just bought a 24 foot above ground pool and was thinking to save money make it solar the only issue i had was how to connect solar panels you made my job way easier thank you so much
sorry for being a pain in the ass so i am installing panels in a storage shed i have and the controller but pool in probably 50 feet from where the controller will be do they sell that 3 wire from controller to pump longer?
@@LOURACING1 yes u can find 50ft or whatever length u need on ebay..just search 50 ft solar extension wire mc4 ...you will expirence a slight drop in voltage due to friction of length but it will be maybe a volt is all at that length...the most important id make sure your roof of that shed is facing south .if it's east to West facing slant your panels won't produce enough power to run ur pump except for noon to 3 ..won't be enough power ..your panels must face south!
great video...ordered my pump on Amazon. they had a $100 off coupon, so paid bout $169 for the pump! Will use your video as an install guide for sure! Living in South Texas-Houston
This video was not uploaded when I ordered mine, but it is here just in time for me to install. Thanks for the video!
Heck yeah brother. Impressed. Going to install the solar pump as well. Great job from Arizona 8/02/24 933am @ 101 F.
Hi. thanks for your video showing your experience with the solar pump. I live in Australia and have one of these solar BLDC pumps running as well. I bought it from Alibaba when Covid started but didn't install it for a few years. The darn thing gave me heaps of trouble and got a new pc board which burnt out in a matter of weeks. I ended up getting a whole new controller box and it is working ok now but I am not running it to its potential - only running 88 Volts 10 Amps from the solar panels. Does your controller box get very hot. Does it have any active fan cooling or is it just passive via the cooling fins on the back of the box. Keep us informed how it performs, good or bad it' all good information for people. Great informative vid, thanks a lot.
Will do! I keep it outside so I don't get any heat from it so far...what size solar did u use? And how many etc...I bet the amount of solar is causing the heat...try to aim for the 110 to 120dc range ...the pump cools itself with water and the rear fan...if ur solar is too low dc wise and is not spinning the pump to where water is flowing well enough to cool it ... it won't cool and be too hot.
Subscribed to see how the pump holds up to long-term every day use. I’m curious how long it’ll last.
Ok thanks ... so far so good ..il give an update summer of 2025...my hope is there's nothing to go wrong in a DC pump..only cooper wires amd a controller board.. and unless my solar panels get hit by a rock etc...my solar panels are good for 20 years. Fingers 🤞
The pump is 72vdc and your series solar panels send it 120vdc, this isn't damage the controller or even the pump?
According to the manual the range of the 72v pump is from 84vdc to 120vdc..so far the panels are working perfectly...there's always some loss of efficiency so I don't think im producing 120vdc probably more like 112 vdc or lower..il have to check with a meter..but it has been working flawlessly since installed..I even went on vaca and never touched it ...for 10 days it turned itself on and off with the sun 🌞 Pool water clear!!!
I like the setup, but why didn't you use schedule 40 90's. You get twice the glue joints. And do you keep your pool open year round ? Which would effect roi.
I live in ky... it gets as cold as zero or minus 0 here in winters...no one ever keeps a pool open all year round here and all pools shut down by October...usually even when the kids go back to school...hope u live in a warm climate and yes this solar pump would save u money all year long!!!:).
great video how many gallons is your pool
Pool is 15x30 and approx 15000 gallons...it has a deep end
thank you so much just bought a 24 foot above ground pool and was thinking to save money make it solar the only issue i had was how to connect solar panels you made my job way easier thank you so much
sorry for being a pain in the ass so i am installing panels in a storage shed i have and the controller but pool in probably 50 feet from where the controller will be do they sell that 3 wire from controller to pump longer?
@@LOURACING1 yes u can find 50ft or whatever length u need on ebay..just search 50 ft solar extension wire mc4 ...you will expirence a slight drop in voltage due to friction of length but it will be maybe a volt is all at that length...the most important id make sure your roof of that shed is facing south
.if it's east to West facing slant your panels won't produce enough power to run ur pump except for noon to 3 ..won't be enough power ..your panels must face south!
@@st-qp4mr got it thank you so much just ordered the pump got it for $140 since its amazon day i had $100 discount