DIY - How to Build an Off Grid Solar Powered Well Water Pump
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- DIY - How to build an Off Grid Solar Powered Well Pump
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That was completely over my head, but I'm subscribing anyway because I'd love to see your car rebuilds. 🙂
Thank God for you and thank you for sharing will be trying that in my remote Africa village very challenging but will try
Great video Bill. I’ve been looking fir a system fir my well house for some time now and you explained it very well! Dave
Thank you for the wonderful lecture. I have not done any project on wind energy now, I am fired up to get it done.
Nicely done; good explanation. Thank you
Great video. New sub here. I live in Texas and we lost power for our pump causing my garage apartment to freeze pipes in spite of insulation and dripping the faucet. Perhaps I ran out of pressure while we were freezing. Anyway I am getting serious to have backup power for my pump. Great video. Very clear.
Thanks. This will be a fun project for you.
Thanks Bill Great Video!
ELI the ICE man = E LEADS I and I LEADS E. You recited it as "lagging" in the video 🤗
Thanks 🙏
Man, I hear you about finding how to get 240V from inverters on UA-cam, they all seem to use 240 of the grid, or are used for Europe, and don't explain it very well. I was looking at the same Aimes inverter (I have used them before for 120VAC) but wasn't sure it would power my 240V mini-split. Now after watching your video I feel more confident about buying the Aimes. Wish me luck :)
Good luck. Make dog on sure your inverter is 60Hz. NOT. 50Hz. Thanks
I think Eli means voltage Leads current, Ice means current leads.
U R Correct! physics.bu.edu/~duffy/sc545_notes06/ELI.html
Hi Bill, thx so much for your vid. I also need to run my 220v well.pump on solar and am using ur setup.
Did you use 4/0 wire going from batteries to inverter? And also what size wire did you use for putiing batteries in series? I have 2-100ah AGM renogy batteries. Thank u very much!
I used 2/0 wire. Pretty much already had some. Thanks
Excellent video and explanation. What size ANL fuse did you use coming from the battery bank?
400a
Inverter Watts ÷ Battery Bank Voltage = Size of fuse.
How much would a system this size cost? Also id drill a few holes in the top of the plastic box with the heat sinks, you’re making it work a lil harder/hotter! Good stuff!
Think transfer switch was 60 bucks.. got the AGM from a cell site for about 100 each. Inverter was a few hundred. Solar panels around 250. Plus some wire and brackets. Misc fuses power switch another 100. Thanks for asking
@@bparkinson1234 less than a grand isn’t bad at all! Thanks
Great video. How did you end up deciding on the size of the inverter? I have a 240v 1500w/2hp well pump at 80 feet deep. Trying to decide between a 12v or 24v battery bank and a 5000 or 10000watt inverter. Trial and error is becoming too expensive 😅
I have a 1 hp 165 deep. The 5000 works great. 2hp is allot. Don’t think my 5000 would do it but you are only 80. A 1hp pump would be plenty. Thanks
Thank you Bill for the information. I am not an engineer and grasp most of what you are saying, but I am in need of more detail for wiring and such to pull this project off. Do you offer schematics or sell any DIY instructions? The kits I've found that are DIY are $8-9,000 which is too much for me. I tried to hire an electrician to assist me and both of them didn't follow through. I guess they have plenty of work, so I am trying to figure out how to do it myself. Thanks again.
I was able to mimic this design. I went step by step as he did. He is very brilliant.
How did you go from your 240v European style (line, neutral, earth) inverter to the 4 wire (line 1, line 2, neutral, earth) American style 240v pump?
Sir, already split phase solar inverter is available. Please check the website of MPP solar company. It's a Taiwan based company, they have got all types of solutions for solar power applications.
Grounding is very important in off grid systems. You should do a video on how you've managed grounding in your system. Ground currents in agriculture systems can be problematic.
Bill can you tell me your wire Guage going from batteries to inverter? I believe you mentioned your batteries are 75 amp hr giving you 300 amphr. I'll be using 4 100 amp hrs.
Is your well pump dc...if not...what is your opinion of DC vs AC pumps. Great vid....just getting interested in this
Mine is 1hp 220vac. What came with my house. Not to familiar with dc pumps. Thanks
I am wondering about capacitors. I am trying to start a 1/2 hp surface pump with 6 AGM 110 AH batteries attached to a 4200 watt inverter and peak draw simply overwhelms the batteries peak output. I have been considering putting a car jumper pack in line briefly to see if that will give me enough juice to start the motor which seems to pull about 3800 watts at whirl up and then almost instantly goes to a 500 watts. Currently I have given up starting the pump off my solar system and am using my generator when I need to pressurize my pressure tank. Do you have any thoughts on what would work well?
Bill do you think you can run a water heater along with your well pump at the same time with this setup?
Probably not. A water heater takes a ton of energy. Some folks use it as a dump load to put in excess solar power. But this only pre heats the water a bit for the regular gas or electric water heater. They sell 12vdc heating elements for this. Thanks
Do you by chance have a link to that transfer switch? That looks like a nice one.
Got it on eBay. I’ll check.
I just have a question on the start up of the pump. Do you manually start it or does it start up once it has enough power and turn off once the power runs out?
Great question. I have a captive air tank on the system. the pressure switch on the water controls the pump off and on. I turn off at 60 lbs. this is typical home set up. I guess you could manually do it. Like in a cabin. Don’t go over 60 lbs to not burst lines and hoses. You could use maybe an rv pressure regulator. Thanks
@@bparkinson1234 Thank you very much. Do you think this setup could be used for a small solar water pump irrigation system? If I up the wattage to 690 and used a Midnite 150?
@@sococad2915 might work. I know there are systems sold for water fountains. Simple 12 Vic pump right off the panel. Check out Missouri wind and solar web site. Thanks
What's the continuous consumption of your pump, I have 3kw 240v inverter,went to AliExpress and bought soft starter,i want to run a 1hp well pump out of it,let me know continuous power
Don’t know. I used a 5000w inverter. Works great. Maybe soft start would work on a 3000. Thanks
Okay what's the Ah rating of your agm batteries
@@kipdennis3796 100. But can only go down to 50%. Lithium is 100. See my playlist. Rv camping rv solar. Thanks
Do you have a link for the adjustable panel mounts on Ebay?
These mounts where for a starlight dish. Ill try to look
Depth of well
165 feet. 1 HP 220v pump. Thanks
Dang on residential users they are charging for poor power factor I thought that was just on commercial stuff
Are there people out there you can hire do to this??
Not sure. Maybe a well guy. Thanks