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To: Shaun_MD; thackney
You really need to look at a fueled generator. You can use the solar/battery and size the battery and wiring large enough to run the pump, but you are going to need a generator to charge up that battery, unless you are only looking for a very short time frame for back up. Hours, not days.

The above is good advice. I have also fantasized about building a dynamometer type device that I could put the back wheels of an automobile on for some temp power (re-charge, run on low sun or low wind days). The logic goes that I would want to keep fuel for the truck and/or generator anyway. If I had a contraption that would allow me to park a vehicle with the back wheels on a bearing or suspended with a belt attached, leave it in drive and have the wheels turn an electric generator, it would actually be relatively efficient and potentially produce way more power than you would likely need. Storing that power could get expensive.

This is only a hair-brained idea based on how efficient automobile motors have become when considering the HP/torque they put out.

80 posted on 03/21/2014 8:34:47 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: Tenacious 1
it would actually be relatively efficient

I would expect it to be 3 to 10 times less efficient than a properly sized generator running on the same gasoline. You are not going to be anywhere near the peak efficiency operating points in your vehicle to the load of the generator.

83 posted on 03/21/2014 8:39:07 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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