Bought a cabin 2 years ago and sellers did not provide accurate well information, neither did inspector. Anyway got to cabin this weekend to open it up and no water. Decided to lift cover off head area for the first time and found this mess. Obviously electrical needs to be redone to code. Well pump must be dead or broken wire in well as there is 240v AC in the crap junction box but not running. Of course in hindsight I’m kicking my own butt not getting the well head looked at specifically prior to purchase.
When I was evaluating solar for this 240v pump last year, it measured 34.5a surge and 7a run at the panel breaker with 11.5 GPM flow at pressure tank (40/60). I gave up on an inverter due to the surge but now things may change.
Just going to rip this out and redo with Gundfos 10 SQ05 240v which should allow me to start on an inverter or at least a small 240v generator. Any other pumps I should look at or just bite the bullet on the SQ? Looks like many have had success with Grundfos.
When I was evaluating solar for this 240v pump last year, it measured 34.5a surge and 7a run at the panel breaker with 11.5 GPM flow at pressure tank (40/60). I gave up on an inverter due to the surge but now things may change.
Just going to rip this out and redo with Gundfos 10 SQ05 240v which should allow me to start on an inverter or at least a small 240v generator. Any other pumps I should look at or just bite the bullet on the SQ? Looks like many have had success with Grundfos.
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). This well would be the only 240v load in a very balanced subpanel. The SQ that will meet requirements has a 1.5kw load at full power. Think a Quattro 5k 120v with Autotransformer to step up and make split phase would work for both grid pass through and inverting? Based on a year of emporia energy monitoring, I’d say peak of other 120v loads would be 2.2 kw, so total of 3.7kw if all running at once. Not sure if AT 120
