So afternoon heat be damned, he wanted to see water coming out of his well and nothing (including my piteous whines) was going to stop it. After I crawled out of the shadows and saw all the work he'd gone to laying out the cable, hose and rope, it was clear he had achieved new heights of fanatic dedication. Off to the desert sun we went.
Load the whole 100-pound package into the back of the pickup:
Lay it all out, knock the cap off the well casing, and prepare to lower away. We wanted about 150' of depth. All was simple enough, but there was one little problem...
...the deeper we went, the heavier the whole thing got. If you've got two guys heaving it into a pickup together, there's no problem with that much weight. If you've got one guy supporting it all with a small poly rope, well, whining will ensue. I did it, and whined, and M thought I was being overdramatic so he took over. We both agreed that A) there must be a better way, and B) we should have brought gloves. But still, we got it in there.
Went back and got the panel. Bolted it to the roof, wired up the panel, pump and ground rod to the controller, and...
AGUA!!!!
2 comments:
Neato burrito!!!
Congrats to you and to M.
Does that one solar panel provide enough juice to pump a deep well? That's wonderful, if so.
Love reading your updates and seeing your successes. :^)
--Lightning
Absolutely. It's a low-flow DC pump; it never pumps MUCH (about 1 GPM) but it doesn't take much to get it running. It's designed to run any time there's enough light on the panel. When we went by this morning, at about 6:30, there was no flow. By the time W came through maybe two hours later it was flowing fine.
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