☀ The Solar Plumber

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About The Solar Plumber

TheSolarPlumber.com is an educational concept site by ABC Solar Incorporated. It explains the wet side of the electric bill: pumps, pools, wells, pressure tanks, water heaters, batteries, utility rates, and blackout water readiness.

Why this site exists

Water systems become solar problems when they need electricity.

A pipe may be plumbing. A tank may be water storage. A pool may be recreation. A well may be basic survival. But the moment a pump starts, a controller runs, a heater recovers, a pressure system cycles, or a battery is expected to keep water moving during an outage, the solar and electrical conversation begins.

TheSolarPlumber.com was created to explain that overlap in plain language. It is not a plumbing company. It is not a substitute for a plumber, electrician, pool professional, well contractor, water-treatment specialist, engineer, inspector, or code official.

It is a practical ABC Solar educational site about identifying water-related electric loads and planning solar, batteries, backup power, and utility-rate behavior around real equipment instead of assumptions.

ABC Solar perspective

ABC Solar looks at the electrical side of water equipment.

ABC Solar Incorporated designs and installs solar and battery systems. TheSolarPlumber.com helps customers understand how water-related loads can affect solar design, battery backup, utility bills, and outage expectations.

Pumps

Pool pumps, well pumps, booster pumps, transfer pumps, livestock water pumps, and pressure pumps can all become serious electric loads.

Solar pumps

Batteries

Batteries can support selected pump and control loads, but only when surge, runtime, priority, and customer expectations are defined.

Battery backup for pumps

What this site is not

The Solar Plumber does not blur licensed-trade lines.

The name is memorable, but the boundary is serious. TheSolarPlumber.com does not provide plumbing design, water-system engineering, potable-water safety advice, graywater design, well-system design, pool-code advice, gas-appliance advice, fire-safety design, or electrical engineering.

Water and electricity both demand respect. The goal is coordination, not confusion. ABC Solar can help with the solar and battery side of water-related electric loads while the proper licensed professionals handle the water, plumbing, well, pool, gas, structural, and code scopes.

Clear boundaries

  • Plumbers handle plumbing scope.
  • Electricians handle electrical scope.
  • Pool professionals handle pool equipment and water care.
  • Well professionals handle well systems.
  • Water-treatment specialists handle treatment and potable-water issues.
  • ABC Solar handles solar, battery, inverter, and load-planning scope.

Topics we cover

The wet side of the electric bill

Pool pump equipment pad with solar battery backup concept

Pool Equipment

Pool pumps, heaters, automation, lights, cleaners, and equipment pads can hide real electric loads.

Pool equipment and solar
Solar panels supporting a well pump and water storage tank

Well Pumps

Well pumps can be critical loads. Solar and battery planning must respect surge, storage, pressure, and water demand.

Well pumps and solar
Pressure tank beside battery backup equipment

Pressure Tanks

Pressure tanks can reduce pump cycling and help protect battery energy during outages.

Pressure tanks and solar

Rainwater

Stored rainwater may still need pumps, controls, labels, filtration, overflow planning, and safe use rules.

Rainwater and solar pumping

Graywater

Solar can power approved graywater pumps and controls, but it does not make graywater safe, potable, or code-compliant.

Graywater and solar power

Blackout Water

Outage planning starts with stored water, critical loads, pump surge, battery reserve, and clear operating instructions.

Blackout water readiness

Why the manga exists

Sometimes the pump has to talk before people listen.

TheSolarPlumber.com uses manga comedy because pumps, tanks, batteries, pool equipment, peak rates, and trade boundaries can be technical and dry. Making the equipment talk helps the lesson stick.

Solar Sensei, Madame Peak Rate, the Water Heater Dragon, the stubborn pump, the pressure tank, and the battery are fictional characters with practical jobs: explain why load lists, schedules, storage, backup priorities, and licensed professionals matter.

Manga lessons

  • The pump demands startup surge respect.
  • The water heater dragon explains heat loads.
  • The pressure tank saves battery energy.
  • Madame Peak Rate punishes bad timing.
  • Solar Sensei finds hidden loads and leaks.
  • The plumber and electrician call a truce.
Read the manga episodes

ABC Solar Incorporated

About ABC Solar

Solar and battery contractor

ABC Solar Incorporated is a California solar contractor based in Torrance, California. The company works on solar, battery, and energy-resilience projects and uses educational sites like TheSolarPlumber.com to explain practical clean-energy ideas.

Practical load-first thinking

The ABC Solar approach is to understand the real load before promising a system. For water equipment, that means pumps, motors, schedules, tanks, controls, utility rates, backup behavior, and trade boundaries.

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About table

What TheSolarPlumber.com helps clarify

Question Why It Matters Where to Start
What water equipment uses electricity? You cannot design solar or backup around unknown loads. How It Works
Can a pump run on battery backup? Startup surge, runtime, inverter capacity, and priority matter. Battery Backup for Pumps
Can pool equipment run during solar hours? Schedule can affect utility-rate exposure and solar value. Solar Pool Pumps
Does stored water reduce battery demand? Pressure tanks and storage tanks can buy time during outages. Pressure Tanks and Solar
What happens during a blackout? Backup systems need load priority and written operating rules. Blackout Water Readiness
Who owns each part of the project? Clear trade boundaries prevent unsafe assumptions. Episode 6

Important safety and licensing note

TheSolarPlumber.com is educational only. It is not plumbing advice, not pump-selection advice, not well-system advice, not pool-code advice, not water-treatment advice, not graywater design advice, not rainwater system design advice, not potable-water advice, not gas-appliance advice, not electrical engineering advice, not fire-safety design, and not a substitute for licensed professionals. Pumps, pressure tanks, wells, pools, rainwater systems, graywater systems, water heaters, batteries, PV systems, generators, backup-power systems, controls, and electrical panels require proper design, permits, inspections, maintenance, and qualified professionals.

The practical point

Water moves. Pumps run. Power matters.

TheSolarPlumber.com exists to make the water-related electric load visible before the solar, battery, or backup-power promise is made.

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