Solar Water Well Pump
Simple Pump's Submersible Water Well Pump Alternative

If you are looking for a solar or renewable energy powered water well pump, you have found the most energy efficient pump available, and it is NOT a submersible.  To learn more about the basics of this pump read about our hand water well pump.

The Simple Pump™ Motor Extension Kit takes the best hand water pump manufactured in the world today and converts the pump to motorized operation using a 1/5 HP 12 volt DC electric gear motor to pump water from as deep as 200 feet at flow rates of 3 gallons per minute and supply pressures of up to 50 psi.

Super Energy Efficiency

There are two ways to pump your water - quickly with high power consumption, or more slowly over a longer time with low power consumption.

No one in the mainstream pumps industry has sat down and thought about creating a high-efficiency, lower-volume pumping solution. They are all higher volume of water throughput, higher power consumption pumps.  This is why Simple Pump is an excellent solar submersible well pump alternative.

Simple Pump’s 105ME 12-volt DC, 60 rpm, 1/5 HP bolt-on Motor Extension is built to adapt the amount of power it draws --- the gear ratio can be adjusted to work at greater depth, holding power consumption constant.

Flow, Depth Supported, Required Pumping Effort
Revised August 2011
 

No one else offers this low energy consuming feature. Typical solar configurations hold power demand constant, requiring you to keep adding solar panels until the power needs of the high volume pump are satisfied, rather than adapting the pump to minimize the output for the solar panels.

Submersible Water Pumps & Solar Power

When people say "water well pump", they almost always mean the usual "submersible well pump", which is what they know and the way most well pumps are done. The reason for our much higher efficiency is that we're not using submersible pump technology.

Even a relatively low-volume submersible pump generates a much higher volume per minute than a Simple Pump 12-volt DC Motor Extension. But a single household does not require the volumes that they produce. Almost all households, no matter the type of pump, include at least a 50-gallon pressure tank that, in turn, supplies the pressure for the domestic water system. With just this modest buffer, Simple Pump saves our customers thousands of dollars in solar panel costs.

Folks looking at submersible pump systems have given us similar figures about what they were finding elsewhere. For example, one person told us the figure the submersible pump folks had quoted him — over $10,000. This for a "low-power-draw" submersible requiring half a dozen 200 watt panels.

Other Low-Volume Solutions & Solar

There aren't any. Yes, there are other hand-pumps - superficially in the same ballpark as a Simple Pump, although more expensive and not manufactured to the same quality. But none of them have an equivalent motorized pump.

Nor does any have an equivalent hand pump-to-motorized upgrade path. The computer-driven machining of a Simple Pump ensures extremely precise, consistent fit between pump head and motor. You can (literally in minutes) upgrade a hand pump to the motor, and be assured of an EXACT fit, even many years into the future.

There is simply nothing equivalent to the solar-driven, motorized Simple Pump --- whether you go straight to solar now, or want to upgrade your hand-pump in the future.

This is one of the main reasons we so strongly favor this outstanding product.  You can get started with a hand pump and end up with the most energy efficient and economical to operate motorized water pump in the world.

More Good Things About Our Solar Water Well Pump

Simple Pump is so power-efficient, it can be run directly from a single solar panel in most locations unless you need a high volume of water.  If you only need to pump water during the day, the use of a linear current booster will significantly improve the volume of water pumped without using a battery.

The pump can operate directly off a 180 to 200 watt solar panel in most environments.  Ready more about how to pump water with solar power.

Simple Pump™ DC Motor Features

12 Volt Motor

The motor operates on a 12-15 volt DC power source. Solar panels, charge controllers, batteries, linear current boosters, and other solar components can also be used to make an around the clock operable system.

The source can also be any portable battery such as an automotive or deep cycle marine battery, an idling tractor or pickup truck.

Operating Depth

Model 125 with 105ME good to a static water level of ~125 feet.

Model 100 with 105ME good to a static level of ~200 feet.

Subtract 25 feet from both if pressurizing a domestic water system to 50 psi or pumping water 50 feet up hill.

Typical Capacities
 

Weather Protected

The mechanism is fully enclosed in stainless steel for ultimate outdoor protection.  The motor is TENV (totally enclosed not ventilated) and is designed to be exposed to the elements.

Electrically Safe

The motor is fuse-protected (25 amp glass fuse) and has its own on/off pivot switch for safety. Switch and fuse are mounted in the stainless steel cabinet face. The switch and fuse can be deleted if alternative controls are used.

Extremely Efficient

The motor’s use of power is frugal, yet it does mighty things. The Motorized Extension Kit produces up to 3,000 gallons of water per day.

Warranty

The gear motor assembly is warranted against defective materials and workmanship for a period of one year from the date of purchase.

Let's Configure Your Simple Pump

Like any other engineered product, making sure the proper components are selected for your location and situation is an important step to success.  We can give you best use recommendations for assuring a safe and sanitary Simple Pump installation.  Please contact us today.

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