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Collecting the leftovers of the Great Sky Reactor.
We have a Grundfos SQE pump although we are unsure which one because it was already installed.You are in the ball park. We are thinking 25Kw array and 50Kw batt bank. The well pump will be on its own array and bank, but we are using a Grundfos SQFlex pump. It is both AC or DC powered. I have it hooked up for DC off Solar, and then a gas powered generator as backup for AC power. The plan is to also have a 1,000 gallon water tank as a reserve to pull from. So the well pump can fill it all day long on solar at 11GPM.
I would love to run a geothermal heat pump and then we might need 1-2 strategically placed split phase AC, or maybe just some of the Midea-U window units.
Propane will be the cooking and hot water fuel. But i also saw someone's setup that "dumps" the excess solar power when the batteries are full into a traditional hot water tank. Might see what can be done there. But primary would be a propane fired on-demand hot water system.
Dryer is already gas. but yeah, I am trying to figure out how to used other options and less load on the electric. For heat we plan to build a large masonry oven in the middle of the house. If that works out as planned, I might skip the geothermal heat pump (unless I use it as AC too).
So many ideas and plans.
With a CU301 controller it can only be a few.
The pump has never been a source of large power usage.
Not sure what others are using or why they have so many issues with them.
I run dual Sol-Ark 12ks because the 15ks weren’t out yet.