The Franklin with capacitor Jbox at top of well helps with the surge. It
is not what you would call soft start!
An ammeter (or a loud generator) on a soft start pump will tell you what
you have. A nice slow over 10 seconds ramping up of amps or gen noise
when the pump is energized. You won't get this with a Franklin and Jbox.
Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
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On 2023-10-11 12:13 pm, Darryl Thayer via RE-wrenches wrote:
I have off grid customers where I have them install 1/2 HP pump, also
Franklin soft start seems to help, low cost but I do not know how it
works, it has a start capacitor I think.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 1:23 PM James Jarvis via RE-wrenches
<re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 1:14 PM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via
RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
Even the SQ pump without the controller will soft start and should work
with
any inverter built for offgrid.
The SQ pumps work great off grid. Easily run on 24 volt Magnum
inverters without even flickering the lights. Super reliable.
I would avoid residential size VFD driven constant pressure pumps. I
ended up with one at my current house. The VFDs go pretty regularly. My
well service company can swap out a VFD in about 20 minutes and they
always have a whole bunch of them on their shelves. They apparently do
it quite a bit.
-James Jefferson Jarvis
APRS World, LLC
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