[RE-wrenches] Well pump with Sol-Ark

[Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar]

The Franklin with capacitor Jbox at top of well helps with the surge. It 
is not what you would call soft start!

An ammeter (or a loud generator) on a soft start pump will tell you what 
you have. A nice slow over 10 seconds ramping up of amps or gen noise 
when the pump is energized. You won't get this with a Franklin and Jbox.

Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
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On 2023-10-11 12:13 pm, Darryl Thayer via RE-wrenches wrote:

> I have off grid customers where I have them install 1/2 HP pump, also 
> Franklin soft start seems to help, low cost but I do not know how it 
> works, it has a start capacitor I think.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 1:23 PM James Jarvis via RE-wrenches 
> <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 1:14 PM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via 
> RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
> 
> Even the SQ pump without the controller will soft start and should work 
> with
> any inverter built for offgrid.
> 
> The SQ pumps work great off grid. Easily run on 24 volt Magnum 
> inverters without even flickering the lights. Super reliable.
> 
> I would avoid residential size VFD driven constant pressure pumps. I 
> ended up with one at my current house. The VFDs go pretty regularly. My 
> well service company can swap out a VFD in about 20 minutes and they 
> always have a whole bunch of them on their shelves. They apparently do 
> it quite a bit.
> 
> -James Jefferson Jarvis
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