For some background, I'm in the pool industry so I've swapped out a few pool pumps through the years but never any Solar powered pumps. I had a leak and faulty motor on my own pool and figured it was time to just give one of these a try and see how it worked. I replaced a 1.6 HP AC pump with this listed as 1.6 HP pump. Out of the box mine had a little damage mainly to the motor cover and fan but after reaching out to Vevor on Amazon they're sending the parts to fix that so that's great service. With enough hot glue I was able to modify my broken cover well enough to use it until I get the new one. Installation only took a few minutes of cutting and gluing a few PVC fittings and pipe, it's all standard 2\" pipe size. The wire from the motor to the controller was a little bit short but they include instruction and heat shrink to add length if you need. Honestly you could just go get a 3 wire cord, open the top on the motor cover and swap the whole wire to whatever length you need, easy breezy. As for solar, I have 12 -100 watt panels just lying horizontal on uni-strut over my pool enclosure. I wired each 3 of these panel in series and each 3 of those banks into parallel for a total of 4 -36 volt banks. I then ran the main +/- wires directly to the MPPT controller and the pump immediately spun up when I flipped the switch. You can certainly hear the pump ramp up or down depending on the intensity of sun on the panels. Based on my panels not being optimized at all to point at the sun I might end up adding another 3 or 6 panels... not having a flow meter installed, because of course an actual pool guy wouldn't =), I need to probably install one and find the flow rate to see if I'm getting like for like from my old pump. It's still early days here and if there's one thing I know about pool pumps is that they begin to fail the minute you install them. I figure if you get a year or two out of it you've more than paid for this in electricity savings alone. I've basically r
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