I don’t think a pump that draws your well down is a great deal .
you need to match your recovery rate , you want to pump water as fast as it is coming in .
When you pump a well to fast and drop the level you start drawing silt ,sand and other goodies into the well and veins in the ground , you end up with a clogged well with no recovery rate to speak of .
I would not get a solar pump to run on panels , it’s a wast of power .
My solar pump will run on ac power and uses 700watts @6 gallons a min
It was as easy as wiring a 12” 12g wire to my 10g pump cable and putting a plug on the end
bam I had water ? It took a uncomfortably long time to get the water up the 700 feet
I was starting to get aggravated ?
I would just get a SQF pump when yours dies or you pipe rusts thru .
The pump curve below would work good in your well based on your description.
I would set the pump 35’ off the bottom
guessing your pump was set 30 below the water line @ 200feetso 235’ the pump wi draws 450 watts
With no serge , I can pump water charge my battery’s ang run the house on less the 2200 wats my inverter limits charging and powers the load . Nothing to it I can pump my well starting at 700 watts and stop after I hit 800 watts
so I don’t draw the well down so much . The deeper the water is in the hole the more power the pump uses .
I use a wall timer to turn the pump off .
I think he must have "Known a Guy" and got a "Great Deal" on it. You should have seen the nightmare of electrical setup he had that fried my first generator!
The water table is about 200ft down, the hole is 305ft according to the drilling report (those things are useful!) and I figured when I was forced to replace it I'd drop the new one down a lot lower. I've run that well dry before trying to get the plumbing all sealed up.
So basically physics says Nope. OK, that's why I asked. It's still working now but draws 11a on each leg of a 220v breaker so the math says either 3Hp or 30% efficient.
I guess I'll put it on the list to replace the pump someday with a solar based one, just not any time soon. I'm still trying to get out there to install the array and system so I can run the lights without the generator running all night. Believe it or not it's REALLY hard to commute from South Korea to Eastern Washington in the 7 hours I have off between watches. ?