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Windy - Great approach - I use a questionaire to help evaluate potential
hydro sites - soon I'll have it up on my web site. This tends to separate
the tire kickers from the real site owners and makes it possible for me
to say either - Sorry folks noway - or lets looka at this - here is a rough
estimate of cost. If a dealer front ends with a questionaire and a quick
ballpark price it often saves time and heartbreak. Like Pumps - micro-hydro
sites are "site specific".
<BR> Best Ron
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<P>Windy Dankoff, Dankoff Solar wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite>Do some of you get these things with absolutely
no hint where he is? I'm
<BR>not about to waste my time without more information.
<P>Cordially, Chuck
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<BR>Date: 7/12/2000 10:03 AM
<BR>Received: 7/12/2000 11:11 AM
<BR>From: wortiz@plateautel.net
<BR>To: Chuck Heath,
sunpwr@jps.net
<P>I need a solar booster pump to tap into an existing 1 1/4in pipe line
and
<BR>push the water 6,100 ft with a vertical lift of 70 ft.
<BR>Water at the existing pipe line comes from a well that feeds a 7,000
ft
<BR>pipe line that is gravity fed with a vertical drop of 36 ft.
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite>power at any location so it has to be a solar
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Sure, Chuck. NOBODY EVER gives you enough information the first
time! This guy is much more thorough than most. Of course, he does not
mention how MUCH water he wants (almost nobody does first time), but he
has other vital stats that most people miss. Sound's hot to me! I would
certainly contact him back. Here is the questionaire that we use.
Feel free (any of you) to use or adapt it to your purposes. -- Windy ====================== <TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> <SPAN
></SPAN>
HOW MUCH WILL A SOLAR PUMP COST ?</FONT></TT><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">To
specify a system, we need to ask you some questions. You can call
us on the phone, or copy our questionaire, fill it in, and return it by
E-mail.</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> FIRST, estimate your TYPICAL
DAILY WATER REQUIREMENTS</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> People:
10 to 100 gallons (40 to 400 l) per person per day,</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> <SPAN
></SPAN>
depending on culture and conservation measures</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Cattle:
10-30 gallons (40-120 l) per day in dry weather</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Small Animals: 1/4 gallon per
day per 25 lb. body weight (1 l per 10 kg)</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Poultry:
6 to 12 gallons (20 to 50 l) per hundred birds per day</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Young Trees: 15
gallons (55 l) per day in dry weather</FONT></TT>
<BR>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> SECOND, answer this</FONT></TT><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">
SOLAR WATER PUMP DESIGN QUESTIONAIRE</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Location of well site</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Does it have clear solar access?</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> If not,
describe or state distance to a sunny clearing</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">If you have a drilled or deeply dug well:</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Well
depth</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Static
water level</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Recovery
rate</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Additional
vertical lift required up a hill</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">If the water is at the surface (river or shallow
well for example):</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Describe the
source</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Vertical lift
required up hill</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Quantity of water required PER DAY.
(We can help you estimate this.)</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">What the water is to be used for:
home? irrigation? livestock?</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> (We want to determine
seasonal usage patterns, storage and pressure</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">requirements.)</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Is a working pump already in place?
(Describe) A storage tank?</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Is there a source of electricity nearby,
or planned?</FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Is there commercial power available at the
site?</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">How far away?</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> (In most places,
solar pumping is NOT cost-competitive with existing</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">utility service.)</FONT></TT>
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