As a professional groundwater contractor, it bothers me that people do not know how to properly terminate the well head/seal. The hole they put the eyebolt through is there to monitor water level on the well and to place disinfectants. It is not there for an eyebolt. Then there is the rope they used. Any rope is a great place for bacteria to hide inside. This can cause the well to have bacterial issues. Who thinks this rope is stronger than the wire in the well? The use of rope is old technology. On top of this are grounding issues. There should be a bond to a ground rod, from the pump's ground wire to the solar panels and racking. This is to equalize the potential to ground and prevent electrocution. There is a lot more to discuss about grounding that would take a lot more space.
I have 14 of these pumps on the ranch and have mixed results. Some have lasted ten years others will leak water into the motor and fail in weeks. They are easy to work on and can be pulled and hauled home. They work well in the winter if you drill a weep hole to allow the water to drain below the frost line. Wells below fifty feet do not work as well as the shallower wells. We have been using larger solar pumps that pump from below 300 feet at a much higher cost.
can you please tell me, Which pump are you using for pulling water its horsepower? the wattage of your solar panels and do you have 1 inch or 3/4 inch pipe? How many gallons per minute does it pump?
Had a borehole pump failure a few years back.. tape had fallen into the bottom of the borehole and been sucked in to the pump..jamming the impellor .Better to use strong zip ties to secure cable and polypipe..rather than tape..
Beautiful workmanship. One thing I like to do with electrical wires is to stagger the cuts, short, medium and long. Just in case vibration wears off the heat shrink insulation (or cockroaches eat it, or it basically dry rots away) there won't be any exposed wire to contact with another wire. It also makes the finished bundle with the last heat shrink over the whole bundle a lot skinner.
thanks so much this is a typical solution to food security thanks for the invention it will fulfill dreams to farmers on living wealthy without stress in life.
AS an electronics designer and system installer, If you use electrical in an exposed situation like this, the tape you should be using is NOT #33 3M. You should use # 88. It has a different adhesive that will not degrade.
Great video. very informative. The thing I most wanted to see was how deep to place the pump in relation to the water level, but you never told us that. How do you figure out how deep you put it?
The analysis of pump test results may be used to determine the pump depth. Without pump test done, others put pumps at least 10m from the borehole depth
Very neat job One thing I might have missed. You took two depth readings. How did you decide how deep to drop the pump? Too high and it might dry out i'm guessing, too low and you could pick up more sediment?
Do Rain harvesting, Rainwater harvesting helps for groundwater recharge, rain water harvesting is one of the best solutions to water problem in the areas having inadequate water resources. Please save water.
i want to give you a new skill when crimping wires (red blue green) : do not crimp wires on the same point of the cable! keep then sequenced one higher of the another i mean don't let them meet together when you tie them with the plastic sleeve keep going
shouldnt the tension be on the rope itself and not the pipe? or the rope is just for security and thi pipe can carry the weight of the pump? nice installation overall
hello. i have a question about how you tie the rope together with the pipe and wire. we can see clearly at 12:20 that the yellow rope is making that loop. isn't it going to break the electrical tape that you used to tie everything together when the system will fill in with water?
@@markedward8639 it's the safety trainer in me. Accident investigation leads one to this conclusion, someone needs to be mom. Itt a compliment. Lots of people maimed or dead. 16-20 a day in the US.
it'really not a good idea to couple the rope with pipe stable. Rope must be strenth and take the load. Pipe must be free of load. Rope is holder , pipe is pipe. They should attach two of them by a free moving clips or nothing.
Good job guys,,,am a student at a technical institute doing electrical and electronics engineering,,how can I be a professional engineers like you guys?!!!
How many instruments required in this project, tell me total cost and item wise also. I think this is best solution.in my farm underground water available at 45 feet depth, does this system will work.
Can this be drained for winterizing in northern climates? Looking to only use it for summer irrigation and don't want to deal with the hassle of making the connection to the piping 4 feet underground.
I must have missed something on the panel connection detail. If you are getting (almost) 40 volts with a parallel wiring connection, wouldn't you be getting close to 80 volts with the panels connected in a series configuration?
I don't get why you tie together the poly pipe and electric cable with the rope. Do not tie the rope, otherwise all the weight is distribute between the three elements, specially the electric cable, and You forgot the torque arrestor
well the pump hangs on a pipe and cable itself as the rope was loose when they put the lid on well :) Shouldn't the pump be supported by rope rather then pipe and cable?
