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■ Inverter output
■ Total system performance and malfunction
■ Direct-current power production
■ Alternating-current power production
■ Accumulated daily, monthly, and yearly power production

Small-Scale Solar Power

Pumping Systems

Pumping water with solar power is reliable and inexpensive and is achieved using
a combination of a submersible pump and a solar cell panel that can be procured inex-
pensively. Engineers have spent years developing a water pumping system to meet the
needs of ranchers, farmers, and homesteaders. These systems are reliable and affordable
and can be set up by a person with no experience or very little mechanical or electrical
know-how.
The solar submersible pump is probably the most efficient, economical, and
trouble-free water pump. Figure 5.12 depicts a small submersed solar pumping system
diagram. In some installations the procedure for installing a solar power pump simply

Figure 5.12 Water well solar power pumping diagram.