Pool pump (230v) and 220v inverter or what?

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  • nestolaw
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2015
    • 8

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    Pool pump (230v) and 220v inverter or what?

    I live in So Cal. and for past 3 years have been running a very efficient variable speed 3hp pool pump (230v). I have it dialed in to run 4 hrs day (2hrs am & 2 pm-. 1hr is at 350 watts and 1 hr run time at 950 watt). total watt hours a day is about 2500. The surge at start up is 2400 watts +/-. I add about 1 gal chlorine wk summer to make up runtime for salt generator and no, i have no issues with algae. I recently purchased two (2), used 250 watt panels (trina) 38v. for $45 each from a company in Arizona and they work! I've read prior posts that are pretty old that it's just not cost effective to run pool pump with panels. With panel cost at $45 I think it may be worth it and give me a project that the wife has signed off on. I'm currently running 500 watts of panels for my pond (24v- 4x6v batteries) 4-5 hrs day and i have an auto transfer switch that kicks off at 24.2v in late afternoon and kicks on at 28v in the morning. I want to apply this to my pool pump to run 4hrs in day and use auto transfer switch if not enough sun/ juice in the batteries. I'm really not interested in using the batteries to run it at night so I'm not looking for max amp hours from batteries, just enough to have at start up. I'm not quite sure how to power my 230v pump. I've found a 220v inverter (Eco Worthy 2000 watt/4000 surge) and I'm just not sure if this will work when wired with my transfer switch. I'm planning on 6x250w panels in parallel, 60 amp charge controller. With my pond set up, I use the MOES transfer switch, 50 amp-5500 watt and it works great wired 110v. Using 6 250w panels at 8.3 amps = 49 amps is pushing it. and 220v is a lot different than my 110v set up. Will a 220v inverter work and is the 49 amp pushing it for the Transfer Switch?
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