Solar submersible well pump

[okdkranch]

Does anybody have experience or advice on one for 90-100 foot well?

 

[Old Timer]

I wired one once, it went directly from solar cells to the pump.
I think it was 36 volt, and pump to match the panel.

Here is a primer on solar well pumps.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/yago91.html

 

[cowadle]

I have had good luck with this http://legacy.shurflo.com/pages/new_industrial/Industrial/solar/doc_sum/9325-043-101.html also this http://www.nemosolar.com/dcsubmersiblepumps/

 

[Decoligny]

Have about 12 years running a community well for 12 homes in CA. Was a 300 foot well, but not solar. Well pump fed water to a 20,000 gallon storage tank, then a surface pump moved the water from storage to a 5,000 gallon pressure tank.

Pain in the butt, always having to fix something or adjust something else.

Glad to be done with it.

 

[mythreal]

Our well is 165 ft deep, pump is sitting around 145ft. The pump is from Simple Pump. it was originally manual then we added a 24volt motor that is hooked up to batteries charged by a solar array. We pump into a 500 gallon storage tank and use a 24v booster pump to transfer to the pressure tank. The whole well house is solar only.

 

[okdkranch]

Great setup. Looked at the Simple Pump site and the prices are substantially higher than a solar submersible pump but I like the manual operation option. I would love to see your system but rarely get down that way. Can you post photos here or in a PM? And your storage tank, is it poly, steel or stainless? Do you have details of the booster pump (head, power consumption, etc).

 

[John6185]

I'm low tech, I still have the elongated well bucket that I used as a kid and I recently replaced the rubber flap that keep the water in until the lever is pulled. I still remember the rope sliding through my hands and the ice flaking off in the winter. Fill the water pail up in the house and it'd be frozen by morning.
Those were the days!