Spec Sheet. He sent us a note -MAKE SURE AND TELL EVERYONE HOW HAPPY I AM WITH MY TURN-KEY RPS SOLAR PUMP. 888-637-4493, 2022 Rural Power Systems | 888-637-4493 | 40250 County Rd 27, Woodland CA 95776 - Terms & Privacy - Google+ - Facebook - Twitter - Blog - Our Popular YouTube Channel. The RPS solar well pump kit is second to none for life off the grid. Note from RPS co-owner Mike. After it was confirmed the solar panels were connected correctly, Jim made the final screw terminal connections to the controller and turned on the system power switch. None of the power lights turned on. For a few seconds nothing happened and Jim, in a concerned voiced, asked if this was normal. I reassured him the controller has a 6 second delay and soft start function, after which it ramps up to full power. RPS 200,RPS 400,RPS 600,RPS 800,RPS 400V,RPS 800V,Pro V Series,Pro D Seriesor use the popular online Sizing Wizard. In this case, we shipped Jim our best selling solar well pump system, theRPS1.8-80 solar well pump system, which includes four 90 watt solar panels. This was about 2 months ago. 4x RPS 100 Watt Rugged Aluminum Framed Mono-Crystalline Solar Panels (Dimensionsare roughly 3.75' long, 1.6'wide and a little more than 1" thick), RPS Helical Rotor Pump with DC Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor, RPS Pump Controllerwith Industry Leading Efficiency + Smooth Start/Stop, 3/4" hose barb and hose clamps for use with black poly pipe (or ask for 1" if you prefer), 1x Low-water Well Level sensor with 100ft wire attached, 1x Tank Shut-off sensor with 100ft wireattached, Waterproof heatshrink wire splice kitwith pre-crimped pump wires, Detailed full-colorsolar pump guide with step-by-step install instructions, Access to RPS video archives of installation tips & product walkthroughs, Lifetime Rotor Warranty which isonly wear part and Field Serviceable, Phone / Email / Text Support from Friendly USA based RPS Engineers. Well, that says it all! Another happy customer! Here at Rural Power Systems, it is our mission to provide great customer service and support. From our learning center on our website, where we educate customers on various well and solar panel topics, to our email and telephone support, we are here to help. great pressure and better than estimate gpm be sure to mount the float switch casing to something solid in the tank as the inner part needs to move up and down. Thanks to your great staff. hi this is mike with rps solar pumps weve quickly become americas number one solar pump company due to our diy easy to install kits and our transparent sizing process to get a system in your hands one of the most common questions we get with the new installer is what type of drop pipe do i want to use for our pump today im going to go over the various types of drop pipe thats the pipe that runs from the pump up to the surface tell you the pros and cons of each and make a couple of recommendations based on your specific application for which one you should use so first lets go over a couple of basics when it comes to drop pipe drop pipe is what transfers the water from the pump up to the surface theres four main types of drop pipe available today theres poly pipe theres steel pipe theres pvc and theres whats called pex which isnt very commonly used the drop pipe also carries the weight of the pump while its hanging in the well so you may have a safety rope youll have your wire there but whats holding the weight of the pump and the water is the drop pipe thats supported by your well seal at the top or if youre in a cold environment your pit-less adapter the main driving factor for the type of drop pipe youre going to need for your installation is the total pumping head thats from where the pump is all the way up to where your tank or wherever youre pumping to is located in vertical feet anywhere up to 300 feet we recommend using black poly pipe which comes in various pressure ratings from 100 psi up to 250 psi past 300 feet in general were going to switch over to pvc pipe pvc pipe comes in different schedules and that is the wall thickness schedule 40 is the thinnest and it goes all the way up to schedule 120 for much deeper installation so if youre going to around 750 feet you can get away with doing pvc pipe past 750 feet or depending on the exact weight of your pump at that point were probably going to switch over to steel pipe when we go to steel pipe in general well use galvanized pipe because its much more corrosion resistant than just a common iron pipe a fourth and much less common type of drop pipe would be pex pex is much more common used in household walls to transfer the water around your house and not so much for drop pipes well go over that in more detail later when youre picking out your pipe if this is for a drinking water application you do want nsf approved pipe that means its lead free and safe for drinking water one of the reasons we recommend using poly pipe up to 300 feet is due to the weight its able to install by hand so with a couple of people you can easily attach your pump and lower it down by the poly pipe and it doesnt get too heavy where youre going to risk dropping it or scraping the pipe and the wire against the well casing when you get to deeper and heavier installations and youre trying to do those by hand its much more common to try to rest the pipe against the casing what thats going to do is it possibly is going to kink your pipe and damage it or youre going to scrape the wire and damage the insulation on it or youre much more risk of dropping it and its really difficult to fish something like that out of a well casing so youre possibly going to destroy your well and have to drill a new one so when you go past 300 feet thats when we start to think about switching over to rigid pipe pvc and youre going to want some sort of mechanical help there ive seen people use skid steers forklifts excavators or if they have a friend with a boom truck thats the best because you can bring that out you can handle the 20 foot sections of pvc pipe and make the installation much simpler and much safer for everybody involved lets talk about poly pipe so over here we have our roll of black poly pipe this ones 160 psi and about a hundred foot in length poly pipe comes in various lengths usually 100 foot 200 foot or 300 foot sections it also sometimes comes in thousand foot rolls so if youre doing a long installation say you want to go underground and then run a long pipe maybe you can find yourself a long roll like i mentioned this is 160 psi which you normally see in your home and garden store is 50 psi or 100 psi in general we dont use that for the installations unless you have a very shallow well with 160 psi like i mentioned were good to 300 feet if you really want to push it and go a little bit further than 300 feet they do make 200 psi and 250 psi but the longer rolls like i said can be more difficult to find poly pipe comes in two different styles whats called cts and ips cts is copper tubing standard as a tube its measured by the outside diameter so that means a standard one inch barb wont fit in it because the inside diameter is much actually closer to around three quarters of an inch what we carry is called ips iron pipe standard this is a pipe were measuring the inside diameter so if we say its a one inch poly pipe that means the inside diameter is one inch so to transition from our pump to our poly pipe or from our poly pipe to above ground piping were going to use whats called a bar fitting the barb fitting fits inside of the pipe its a nice tight fit and youre going to want to get it all the way in and then use multiple hose clamps in order to clamp it onto the barb here this is actually an extended barb its made for deep wells and it can take a lot of weight so nothing falls apart down in your well if you do end up with cts its gonna be a little bit harder to find your fittings with cts if you have one inch cts the inside diameter is going to be around three quarters so you might get lucky with a three quarter inch bar fitting in it its still probably gonna be tight and you might have to take a hot air gun to heat up the section of pipe in order to slide in your poly pipe thats not the best practice it actually causes a weak spot on the pipe but its doable and if you dont have a really deep well its going to be just fine so thats the basics of poly pipe lets go over some pros and cons when were considering applying our poly pipe to our well installation first of all its one continuous section so we dont have various joints throughout the drop pipe that could possibly fail thats a huge benefit it makes installation so much simpler to have a single piece of pipe we can lower down and when we need to pick it up we can simply pull it out of the well its flexible we can lay it out on the ground and its much easier to work with in pvc pipe where you might have 10 foot or 20 foot sections the other benefit is its plastic so its non-corrosive you dont have to worry about rusting of your drop pipe in your well casing and putting flakes that get sucked up into your well pump you dont have to worry about iron entering your well and causing additional corrosion its just much simpler one of the challenges of poly pipe is you do want to find one continuous section so its always best to avoid joining the pipes together using couplers while its doable and for long installations you might have to put one in there but we really dont recommend doing any joining of the pipe together if you do have to do one thats all right but it is going to create another weaker and possible failure point where the pipe could break one of the other challenges when working with the poly pipe is in cold environments under cold environments the pipe can get a little stiff to work with and since it ships in a coil if you are in a cold environment you want to take that in account and possibly stretch out the pipe as much as possible say the day before to try to get it to strain out a bit before you drop it down youre well casing weve heard some stories in cold weather where the installer actually had to push the pipe down in order to get down their casing usually that becomes less of a problem as you get deeper because the weight of the pump and the weight of the pipe helps straighten everything out poly pipe is also going to stretch around one to two percent for your installation so you need to take that in account when youre doing your taping of your drop wire and your rope to your poly pipe to secure it in a nice bundle that doesnt sound like much but when youre doing a hundred foot installation that pipe can stretch around one foot to two feet if youre doing a 300 foot insulation that can be three to six feet of additional length as everything settles out and the pipe stretches a little bit so you want to take that in count with your wire to leave enough slack to account for that stretching of the pipe other than that we love poly pipe and its a great easy to install diy solution for your solar well pump which is why we sell it with all of our turnkey kits so if you need drop pipe you should consider our turnkey kit which will make installation day much simpler so as i mentioned its not very common to use pecs for your installation its cts copper tubing standard so that means its measured from the outside diameter this is actually one inch pex and if you see i take our one inch barb and its not going to fit in here thats because the barbs are outside diameter one inch you have a couple of different options here if youre forced to use pecks one is you can use a three quarter inch barb and heat up this section and most likely itll fit in there in order to make your connection to the barb there are also pex fittings that are designed to go inside of the pex pipe and then attach with clamps but as you can see this fitting is only about an inch long compared to the three and a half inches we use for our deep well installations so youre not getting a lot of grip there and so you have a risk for deeper installations of this falling off in your pump or your pump and your drop pipe ending up at the bottom of your well so if at all possible we recommend going at the poly pipe but i do understand this can be hard to find in rural environments so if you have to go with the pecs id recommend for shallower wells and really make sure youre securing all your connections tight to prevent anything from falling off with pex tubing can also be much more difficult to find the pipe rated for higher pressures we picked this up at the local store and it was 100 psi so that would be good to around 200 foot of installation be a little cautious with going that deep or much deeper than that so all that being said if you cant find your poly pipe and you need to go with pecks just be careful about the sizing of the pipe whether youre doing three quarter inch one inch or larger and the pressure rating of the pecs to make sure its appropriate for your installation depth so next lets talk about pvc pipe so if you just cant find poly pipe or you dont like poly pipe and dont want to work with it then pvc pipe is perfectly fine to use so pvc pipe is low cost and highly available but theres a couple of considerations when were going to use it first is the wall thickness or the schedule of the pipe pvc pipe comes in schedule 40 80 and 120 and thats the wall thickness and burst pressure which is going to relate to your installation depth the next is going to be the length of the pipe youre installing when you go to the hardware store the most common length is going to be a 10 foot length of pvc pipe its also going to have just bare ends so that means youre going to need to glue on couplers in order to screw the sections together as you lower it down your well casing i dont recommend using flared pvc in gluing it as you go down your well casing because if you ever need to pull it youre going to have to cut the sections as you pull it and then re-put on fittings and re-glue it when you put back down now when you do the gluing and put a bunch of threaded fittings on here youre creating a lot of failure points so every 10-foot section is going to have the threaded section and its also going to have two glued fittings if any single one of those glued fittings fails over that whole section of install the pipe can fall and youre going to have problems getting it out youre going to have to reply on your safety rope or your wire to pull it out at that point and if either of those two break then its going to follow the bottom of your well and youre going to have a lot of trouble fishing it out and possibly damage your well so if you have to do it i would tend to go towards shallower welds where you do the glued fittings with your pvc pipe if youre doing a deep installation past the 300 foot we recommend for the poly pipe then you probably want to get actual drop pipe which is threaded on both ends so with real drop pipe it comes in 20 foot sections and both ends are threaded with those threaded ends we can use a stainless steel coupler to thread the sections together that makes no glued fittings in your entire drop pipe run and only the threaded fittings which are much more reliable and being stainless steel theyre not going to corrode over time there is a newer technology out there with the newer technology they actually eliminate the stainless steel fittings by flaring the end of one side of the drop pipe your pvc pipe and threading the inside of it so that eliminates the stainless steel coupler and the pipe threads together in 20-foot sections minimizing the amount of possible fairy locations the other great thing about pvc pipe is its non-corrosive in your well so you dont have to worry about rusting and any other rust flaking off like you do with iron pipe its also much lighter than iron pipe so its easier to lower down your well but you do want to be careful when you come out of the well because it does degrade in uv sunlight and become chalky and that can cause issues down the line over several years with advances in polypipe and advances in pvc pipe galvanized steel pipe installs are getting much less common for residential and other shallower wells but there are some cases when youre going really deep were talking our thousand foot installations or a really large pump and were pumping hundreds of gallons a minute with a nice heavy pump hanging at the bottom we may need to go with steel pipe right here i have some one inch steel pipe its much more common that were gonna do inch and a quarter or larger depending on our flow rates and the distance we need to pump the water so some of the downsides of using steel pipe is it can corrode over time and rust so if you have harsher well water you might end up rusting getting flakes of rust and particles down your wells sucked up by your pump and into the filter into your house or into your stock tank and settling down at the bottom causing rust stains in that brown type of water the other downside is as it corrodes you can get pin holes in your pipe that can cause cycling your pump and loss of water flow if its dripping back down and its especially important in a pressurized system that we dont develop pin holes because youre going to lose all your pressure back down through that pinhole that being said based on the depth of your install there are going to be some cases where youre just going to have to go with the galvanized pipe so weve gone over a lot of different options here with regards to pipe another factor we want to bring in is cost of the different installations so poly pipe is going to be your lowest cost installation its going to run around a dollar per foot for your pipe pvc pipe is also a very low cost option but youre going to have to add the extra fittings that are going to add up on a deep installation so steel pipe is going to be your most expensive option just the other day we called around to some local suppliers we got a quote of around three dollars per foot for inch and a half drop pipe so for an 800 foot installation that was going to run us around 2200 in order to do that but if youre going to that depth you might not have a choice and youll just have to spend the money for the galvanized steel pipe so even though you might get some corrosion and rusting with your galvanized steel pipe its been used for years and youre probably going to get 20 to 25 year life span out of it so just be prepared down the line youre going to need to replace your pipe so thats a summary of all the different types of drop pipes you can use in your installation the great news is for installs less than 300 feet we take out all of the guesswork for you with our turnkey kit it comes with 160 psi black poly pipe it also comes with the bar fittings and all of the connections you need to make all the way up to your well head so if youre just not quite sure i would definitely recommend going with the turnkey kit if youre going deeper than 300 feet then we might need to consider some of these other options we have pump sizing experts standing by ready to help answer all your questions about the various pipe options and the various fittings youre going to need for installation so feel free give us a call at 888-637-4493 or visit us at rpssolarpumps.com we also have in the description below a complete installation video showing you step by step how to install your solar pump using our turnkey kit our mounts our panels and our solar pumps if you want to put the sun to work and start pumping water with the power of the sun give us a call and get your system today. Our reading materials, manuals, videos and diagrams allow customers of all skill levels to install a solar pump successfully the first time. For deeper wells, the RPS800 remains the most popular on the market. Most of the time, we never hear back from our customers, since the solar pumps are easy to install and dont require any special mechanical or electrical expertise. The RPS Bar The Solar Water Bar and friendly solar water pump team travels to events, shows, bull sales and rodeos. Needa different model? Helped a friend install. The system above is an RPS1.8-80 complete solar well pump kit installed by one of our customers in central California. Solar panel mounting is not included in the standard RPS 800 system, you can purchase one of our easy-to-installTop of Pole mountsor aTurnkey Kitfor a complete DIY experience. We are always happy to help, and as it turnsout Jim was out in the middle of his cow pasture, ready to hook up the solar panels to his solar well pump system. Due to the high voltage, he was not sure if he had hooked the solar panels up correctly. Our contact info is listed on the front page of every pump manual, on our website and on the well pump controller. Jim had no problem finding our phone number and gave us a call while standing out in his cow pasture.Best of all, someone in the USA who speaks English, answered his call! Batteries or a generator can be used later as backup with the proper hardware, but most customers find they get much more water than they expect with solar alone! Wed love to feature your system on this page! Filling Ponds/ Solar Fountains Solar Pumps for Irrigation Our job is to help get you water, not sell you something that isn't a good fit for you or your well. *Note: Free shipping unfortunately only available for contiguous 48 states. Sale, America's #1 Most Trusted Solar-Powered Water PumpRPS Solar Pump Kits are for people that believe in getting the job done themselves, and getting it done right. Start Sizing Now . And to give you more flexibility and peace of mind, batteries or a generator can be used to supplement as needed. Give us a call at (888) 637-4493. Our Pledges to You. Livestock NRCS, More Top 100 Customer Photos Its finally here: the comprehensive, start-to-finish installation companion video for our standard, most popular well pump: the RPS 400. About to buy another one. Producing 5gal/min. Spec Sheet. rps Pumps great. Filling Ponds/ Solar Fountains Solar panel mounting is not included in the standard RPS 400 system, you can purchase one of our easy-to-install. rps We installed this with my inlaws. Thanks. We feel itimportant tomention thatour teamis not on commission so expect our help, not pressure to purchase. $2,699.00 We love solar pumping and you will too. Like the system. Easy install and pumping over twice what my old Bison system was pumping. If so, whats the best 12v converter to accomplish this task? ..our actual pump engineers for asking questions, helping troubleshoot, or planning for installation. Took a while to get all the parts but its working well now. I have solar pump working. Customers send in hundreds of notes each season expressing their newfound love for solar pumping. We feel itimportant tomention thatour teamis not on commission so expect our help, not pressure to purchase. Were a friendly bunch. The most efficient brushless permanent magnet motors mean no replacement of carbon brushes and years of smooth, reliable performance. Thanks to Carly and the gal in shipping, it arrived in plenty of time. Our customer liked the system so much, he purchased a second unit for another pasture. Lifetime Rotor Warranty and the only field-serviceable pump available save you thousands over other options. Call us whenever you need some help our support of you is unconditional. Best solar pump we have installed yet. RPS2.1-100, 2 Easy to install. I added an overflow and a switch to open the tank full sensor and allow water to overflow the tank and head downhill to water critters and a start of an orchard. UPS broke a solar panel but the RPS guys covered it and got another sent to my friend right away. Jim got a little mixed up and hooked the 4 panels in series. He checked the voltage with a multimeter and noted something must not be right due to having much higher voltage than expected. Top 100 Customer Photos I had wonderful service! Solar is more versatile than ever. Pumping great so far. Gallons to Expect from RPS 400* Based on a 6 hour solar pumping day. Subsidized shipping available for Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico and Canada! Below are some examples of featured customer installations. Off-Grid Living Thanks, everything appears in good shape. Good evening. Quality you can trust for years and years to come. He wanted to create a pond to act as a water source for his 40 acre deer hunting property. America's #1 Most Trusted Solar-Powered Water Pump. Mike references several in this video. $2,649.00 Both helpful. Recommended. That sun up there is amazing! Filling Ponds/ Solar Fountains We feel itimportant tomention thatour teamis not on commission so expect our help, not pressure to purchase. About us It draws water from 70 feet underground and pumps it to a tank located about 1,700 feet away. The most efficientbrushless permanent magnet motors mean no replacement of carbon brushes and years of smooth, reliable performance. The RPS Engineers have helped thousands of customers size, plan, install and troubleshoot solar well pumps all over the world. THANKS FOR THE HAT . mexico solar wind energy panel installation tax credit installers power rebates cornhole wraps flag state dasolar residential incentives renewable cart The service that was provided was excellent! Top 100 Customer Photos Note from RPS co-owner Mike. This is a very impressive system, self-installed by the farmer. Knowing little about solar well systems, she was a wealth of information. Needa different model? Once i figured that out, smooth sailing thanks guys. We are always happy to help our customers with any questions or installation questions. We were able to walk Jim through the solar panel hookup process, in real time, as he made the proper solar panel connections. Step by step we were able to talk Jim and his helper though the panel hookup process. This took less than 5 minutes, including checking the output voltage with a multimeter to make sure everything was connected correctly. With the MC4 solar panel connectors and provided connector splices, the solar panel hookups are simple plug together connections. Choose your water use.. Will this restrict flow. RPS400 worked great with my Mobile Trailer system. idaho energy tax credit rebates solar renewable dasolar incentives Couldnt be happier with your system. Ourfamous support team is here to help!