Running Your Home Water Pump On Solar Panels

It comes in with a 3 m long cable and 4 different nozzle heads.

Running your home water pump on solar panels.

Besides the beautiful waterfall will give your garden a unique special look. In a very sunny climate hooking these panels to an inverter connected directly to your pump may be all you need to do. Just lower it down into the well and assuming you finish installation before night water will start flowing. It s very easy to use just immerse the pump under water place the panel under full sunlight and it will start automatically.

Image via rheem australia tankless continuous flow instantaneous water heating. The pump should connect easily to existing power cables and plumbing. The sunsbell solar water pump is ideal for a garden patio or pond. If this is the type of water heating in use in your home then your solar related options are quite simple and limited as the water heating happens on demand while you re running hot water.

It s not practical or cost effective to just run the pump just off solar. Simply put the components you would need to make this system are the solar array a charge regulator an ac inverter a battery bank plus odds and ends like wire and fuses. I m using a 50 watt solar panel a bit overkill. A 10 watt solar panel should be sufficient to run 4 8 watt pump although i would recommend using 20 watt 4 times of power.

The solar pump solar panels and sensors all connect to the controller using screw terminals again no soldering required. Example of a panel type solar hot water system by rheem.