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Quick answers (and contradictory, big surprise) so far. House is a very long basement rancher. Panels at one end of the house, garage at the other. Electron path has to go up 2 floors (panels cantilevered off deck), back down to basement, across 100 ft of house, up garage walls, over ceiling...

My panels are 250 feet from where the power (110v) is to be delivered. Should I place the inverters closest to the panels, or closest to the final destination to avoid line loss, overheat, etc. Either inverter location is equal: indoors, sheltered, etc. Inverter should be closer to the panels...

<<Are you considering trying to run the pump directly from the panels? If so, no. You'll damage one or the other eventually.>> Yes, I was planning to run the pump straight off the panels, as the guy in the YouTube video shows. It doesn’t matter if they run continuously or not, and obviously...

This is the pump: it’s 12v. I don’t think there’s a board or even a chip in there, just a DC motor. On mine there are no markings of any kind (!), but the guy in the video is driving it with less than 100w. . Surprisingly powerful. Unfortunately I don’t have the plug for it, so I will have to...

I have a Prius inverter pump that seems to want 50 watts to drive it. The only panels I have are 100 watts. Can I use them, or will that burn out the pump? (On an AC system you can plug in anything below the power in the line and the appliance will just take what it needs. But is that also true...